American Nightmare (1983)

Directed by

Don McBrearty

Genre

horror film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 28m

Rated

R

Rating

4.3 of 10 from 18 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man searches for his missing sister in a city's seedy underworld. He discovers that a serial killer is targeting sex workers.

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What happens

American Nightmare is a 1983 Canadian slasher film directed by Don McBrearty and starring Lawrence Day, Lora Staley, Lenore Zann, Michael Ironside, and Alexandra Paul in her feature film debut. It tells the story of a successful pianist investigating the disappearance of his sister in an urban decadence as a serial killer targets prostitutes and sex workers. The screenplay by John Sheppard, based on a story by John Gault and Steven Blake, was influenced by the rising crime rates in American cities throughout the 1970s and early 1980s. The film was executive-produced by Paul Lynch, who had previously directed Prom Night (1980). Filming took place in Toronto, Ontario in 1980 on a budget of CAD $200,000. The film initially received a small theatrical release in March 1983 in Canada before appearing on television in the United States the same year. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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