Nightmare (1964)

NR02/28/1964Thriller, Horror, Mystery1h 23m
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THREE SHOCKING MURDERS...did she DREAM them? ...or DO them?

Overview

A young woman is plagued by nightmares of her asylum-patient mother. Upon returning to her family home, the nightmares become real when she sees a strange woman pacing the halls.

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  1. Cast 1

    David Knight

    Henry Baxter

  2. Cast 1

    Moira Redmond

    Grace Maddox

  3. Cast 1

    Jennie Linden

    Janet Freeman

  4. Cast 1

    Brenda Bruce

    Mary Lewis

  5. Cast 1

    George A. Cooper

    John

  6. Irene Richmond

    Mrs. Gibbs

  7. Cast 1

    Timothy Bateson

    Hotel Bartender

  8. Cast 1

    Elizabeth Dear

    Young Janet

  9. Clytie Jessop

    Woman in White

"Janet" (Jennie Linden) has been having some ghastly nightmares, so is sent home from her posh "Hatcher's School for Young Ladies" ostensibly to recuperate. We learn quite quickly that she has good reason for her troubles - only a few years earlier her mother had rather lost the plot and murdered her father. Now the young woman fears that perhaps she might be suffering from a similar mental illness - and sadly things really don't fare much better for her in her new surroundings. Freddie Francis has done quite a good job with Jimmy Sangster's story - he gives the film a Hammer look and feel to ...