USA, 1980
80m, 89m
35mm film, colour
mono, English
An American horror film by director J.S. Cardone which was briefly consigned to the “video nasties” list in the UK.
Plot Summary
Four people on vacation on a remote and desolate island are soon being picked off by mysterious being seen in a premonitory dream by one of them, a young artist named Kay. The group is soon whittled away until Kay finds that her nightmare may be about to begin all over again.
Credits
Crew
Directed by: J.S. Cardone
The International Picture Show Company © MCMLXXI [1981]
Executive Producer: Lloyd N. Adams
Produced by: William R. Ewing
Associate Producers: Anne Kimmel & Gerald Olsen
Original Screenplay by: J.S. Cardone & William R. Ewing
Director of Photography: Karen Grossman
Film Editor: Edward Salier
Music Composed and Conducted by: Robert Folk
Sound Mixer: Anthony Santa Croce
Costume Designer: Patricia Koehnen
Make-up and Hair: Julie Purcell
Special Effects Make-Up Created by: Robert Short
Special Effects: Spectacular Effects, Robert Babb
Production Designer: Lynda Burbank
Cast
Sarah Kendall (Kay)
Frederick Flynn (Eric)
Carol Kottenbrook (Brooke)
Alan McRae (David)
Michael Holmes (Marsh)
Sandy Simpson (Norman)
Paul Gandolfo (fisherman)
Newell Alexander (Kay’s father)
Ivy Jones (Kay’s mother)
Jennifer Gaffin (young Kay)
Richard Van Brakel (young Eric)
Carl Kraines (The Slayer)
Alternative Titles
Nightmare Island
Links
Extracts included in
Terror on Tape (1983)
References
Periodicals
- Screen International no.492 (13 April 1985) p.70 – note
- Variety 27 October 1982 p.14 – credits, review (by Lor)
- Video Viewer vol.3 no.3 (September 1983) p.53 – review (by Liam T. Sanford)
Books
- The Films of the Eighties by Robert A. Nowlan and Gwendolyn Wright Nowlan p.525
- The Hollywood Reporter vol.274 no.25 (22 November 1982) p.18 – illustrated review (by Gerry Putzer)
- Horror and Science Fiction Films III by Donald C. Willis p.240-241 – credits
- The Mammoth Book of Slasher Movies: An A-Z Guide to Over Sixty Years of Blood and Guts by Peter Normanton pp.391-393
- The Pocket Essential Slasher Movies by Mark Whitehead p.88
- Regional Horror Films, 1958-1990 by Brian Albright p.205
