BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Orla Zuniga It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

capkronos 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

aesgaard41 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.

Max Power Normally I would never rent a movie like this, because you know it's going to be bad just by looking at the box. I rented seven movies at the same time, including Nightmare on Elm Street 5, 6 and Wes Craven's New Nightmare. Unfortunately, when I got home I found out the videostore-guy gave me the wrong tape. In the box of Wes Craven's New Nightmare I found this lame movie.This movie is incredibly boring, the acting is bad and the plot doesn't make any sense. It's hard to write a good review, because I have no idea what the movie was really about. At the end of the movie you have more questions then answers.On 'Max Power's Scale of 1 to 10' I rate this movie: 1PS I would like to correct Corinthian's review (right below mine). He says Robert Englund is ripping off lingerie, riding horses naked, etc. The guy that did those things was Mahmoud, played by Juliano Mer, not by Robert Englund.

Corinthian This is one of those movies you see in the video store that you just HAVE to get because it just looks so horribly bad. And indeed, we couldn't take most of it. There was a lot of fast-forwarding going on.But then we came across a scene where Robert Englund seduces the female protagonist (her name somehow slips my mind at this time). CRIPES. I've never watched a single scene from a film so many times (I'm estimating forty or so). And I've never laughed so hard in my life. You see, Englund has this thing for showing off his loins. I last saw the film a couple months ago, but I can't stop laughing as I type. Anyway, the scene is a montage of shots-- Englund ripping off the lingerie of the girl, Englund riding a horse naked, and some mysterious woman fellating a snake's head. This is absolute genius. You've got to see it for yourself.