[Once
again I'm going to attempt to do a horror(ish) movie review a day for
the entire month of October. I've done this the last few years on The
Cleveland Movie Blog. Most of the time I succeeded. Other times I didn't. We'll see if I can
pull it off this year.]
Review by Bob Ignizio
Not many patrons enter the mysterious movie theater in NIGHTMARE
CINEMA, but those who do come to regret it. That’s because The
Projectionist (Mickey Rourke) doesn’t show just any old movies. The films he
shows are personal nightmares ripped straight from the minds of those watching
them.
The first moviegoer to get more than they bargained for is a
Samantha (Sarah Withers), a young woman who sees herself thrown into what
appears to be a by the numbers woodland slasher film in which she is pursued by
a killer known as “The Welder” (Eric Nelson). Writer/director Alejandro Brugués
(JUAN OF THE DEAD) almost holds off too long on revealing the twist. But
when it finally comes, it’s the sort of cheesy, fun surprise you’d expect from
an episode of an eighties horror anthology series like Tales From The Crypt
or Monsters. B-
