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ri ssr ma20 wednesday september 14 1983 markham movie scene 11 nightmares doesnt live wfr jjiii nighmares emilio estevez plays a video game addict jjhd reaches the 13th level of a mysterious game with dis astrous results i niminimiiiinimiiiiniiiilli entertainment a weekly guide for your night out by ian bailey the most irritat ing thing about most bad movies is the huge gulf between the film itself and what is usually advertised by stu dios hoping to drag box office dollars out of their invest ment before it is kil led by bad word of mouth one exam ple of this is night mares the film has been advertised as ter rifying and this years sleeper yet it is neither night mares is not fright ening because it is badly made it is not a sleeper be cause it proclaims the title rather than earns it sleepers are quiet multifaceted films that open slowly and build in acclaim based on a growing mass of satisfied viewers re- commending the film in 1979 break ing away was such a film an officer and a gentleman was also a sleeper yet in nightmares there is little to recom mend the films direc tor joseph sargent who directed the taking of pehlam one two three and macarthur lacks a tight enough control of his material to squeeze terrorout of the brief duration of each episode another problem is that the four stor- ies lack an over seeing rationale to tie them together unlike the brilliant 1946 horror antholo gy the dead of night it was bound together by a mans perception of a group of people at a party as he had seen them in a dream or even the belated steven spielberg john landis produc tion of the twilight zone which was tied together by the themes created by the show and burgess meridith as narrator nothing ties nightmares together the film is introduced by a silly montage and each tale is piled on top of the other like a series of commeric- als the stories are terror- in topanga a woman runs out of cigarettes and goes to the local con- vienience store de spite the fact that there is a knife weld ing psychopath run ning amok in the neighborhood there is a neat 10- second sequence near the conclusion but the conventional buildup which apes alfred hitch cocks style makes it hardly worth the wait bishop of battle 6 a video game nut played by emi lio estevez martin sheens son using his fathers original surname manages to reach the fabled 13th level of a popu lar video game he finds that winning involves killing real versions of the games characters despite a conven tional script estevez gives a good driven per formance as the addict ringing true amid a sea of cliches the benediction a priest suffering a crisis of faith finds himself locked in a battle against a driverless hell- driven pickup truck this silly story creaks under the weight of its overearnest vague religious sym bolism night of the rat an average sub urban home is pla gued by a rat the size of a baby hippo potamus as silly as it sounds all of the proceed ing is presented with the skill of m a d e f o r t v movie the sequ ences are quick and clipped the photo- grapby is fuzzy so much so that mostof the promotional stills look as though they were shot through the side of a dirty aquarium the direction is pedes trian in short the entire film is bound to the low threshold of originality and presentation that haunts most of com mercial tv you would be bet ter off to stay at home and watch an old twilight zone episode nightmares is playing at thornhill square films at thornhill cinema this weekend will be nightmares in cine- ma 1 mrmom in cinema 2 and a dou ble bill of porkys 1 and 2 in cinema 3 at markvillethe latest rodney dangerfield film easy money is held over in cinema 4 new films coming this week include revenge of the nin- ja cinema 1 war games cinema 2 and hercules cine ma 3 i p jg barn theatre akona rd plekwtng dimnirthiatri 1983 fall season of comedies murder room aug 26oct 8 not with my daughter oct 14nov13 nurse jane goes to hawaii nov 18dec 18 thurs fri sat and sun- dinner a 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