Excellent, Without a doubt!!

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

This is one of the smaller films Tobe Hooper directed in the 80s and 90s but one of his darkest in subject matter. There are quite a few thematic links to Texas Chainsaw Massacre: we had a virginal girl getting wrapped up in an underground cabal or torture and black magic. This is not as intense but keeps you invested with its bizarre style and solid performances. Hooper fans won't be turned off by the absurd and symbolic moments, but mainstream horror fans won't get it. This is not a slasher film, but all Hooper films get unfairly graded as such. He works with very esoteric and macabre stories that are not supposed to be realistic. They are old school horror movies with a more intelligent knowledge of evil and depravity. Hooper may have topped himself 2 years later with the similar film "The Mangler" which also starred Robert Englund, who is really having fun in both films. Big recommendation to fans of David Lynch or Jess Franco, whose sometimes producer Harry Allan Towers produced this film!

Genie (Zoe Trilling) arrives in Egypt to visit her hypocritical, bible-quoting archeologist father (William Finley) and attracts the attention of a group of cultists led by a descendant of the Marquis de Sade (Robert Englund). Englund also plays de Sade in flashbacks, ranting in his cell. Genie is led astray by Mohammed (Juliano Merr), who rides around naked on a horse and Sabina (Alona Kamhi), a bisexual who introduces her to opium smoking, which leads to a wild hallucination featuring topless harem dancers, a woman simulating oral sex on a snake, an orgy and her father preaching in the background! Meanwhile, black hooded cult members decapitate, gouge out eyeballs and slit throats. When Genie is slipped drugs in her tea, she imagines de Sade hanging from a cross, a gold-painted woman in a leafy g-string and herself bloody on a bed covered in snakes. It's all because she's the reincarnation of de Sade's lost love.This typically sleazy Harry Alan Towers production is redundant, seedy and pretty senseless, but the sets, costumes, cinematography and location work are all excellent and at least there's always something going on.Score: 3 out of 10

Tobe Hooper is quite possibly the biggest fluke the horror genre has to offer. Like any other horror fan, I loved the Texas Chainsaw, but I think that in order to put your name in front on a movie title, you should have at least more than one hit movie. I can't really think of any other movie Hooper has done (on his own, don't count Poltergeist) that has really made an impact on the horror genre or film world. And this movie, Night Terrors, just backs up my point.Poor Robert Englund, I give him credit for at least doing a good job with the awful material he was given. He did what he could. As for the movie itself? Pure drudge. Unnecessary nude scenes every five minutes, a story that must have been penned in an our, and really just awful scenery, music, and cinematography. Nothing in this film is redeemable. Don't waste your time.Overall, 1 out of 10. I feel sorry for Hooper, his career seems like it was over before it really ever got started. I hope that he's able to pump out at least one more good flick, that way he can do his cult status some justice.

There are only two real reasons to watch this movie. One of them played a guy that haunted your dreams, and the other dragged several kids from St. Rita's Academy to Hull House Mortuary. While I don't need to explain who Robert Englund is, not many people know who Zoe Trilling is. Born Geri Betzler, she was a short petite beauty with a doll- like face and an incredible figure who had a short horror movie career between TV appearances before she dropped out of movies and apparently out of the known universe. This is not one of her better movies. In fact, no one should have bothered to have made this one. Directed by Tobe Hooper of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and "Poltergeist" fame, "Night Terrors," despite the promising name, shows none of his style or creative finesse. Zoe plays Genie, a young American girl who travels to Egypt to be with her father, an archaeologist with strong Christian convictions, but when she's attacked by local thugs, she's rescued by a prostitute named Sabina, played by Egyptian actress Alona Kimhi. Sabina befriends and takes Genie into the local nightclub scene where she and the movie are dragged into a drug den. From here on, the movie isn't much to watch, ignoring plot and direction for endless porn and nudity. The underworld of drugs and debauchery seems to be run by Robert Englund as Paul Chevalier at a party, a supposed descendant of the Marquis de Sade, and from there, the movie gets even worse as it sinks into debauchery and sadism disguised as hallucinations. It's implied that Genie's father is a part of the cult, and Sabina helped him lure her into it and as revenge, she drags in his daughter. Despite the interesting set-up to a promising movie, the movie is a waste of time. The early scenery is great, and Zoe does as her best as she can with the material, as does Englund, but film is plot less, the characters wander from scene to scene and eventually becomes nothing but pointless nudity and violence. It's not hard to tell that Zoe was starting to feel exploited for her looks, and one only has to look at how bad and pointless this movie is to make her leave acting. The movie actually kills itself, and one can't tell if the ending is real or another illusion. It's not worth the DVD it was wasted on.