The Nightmare Man is a science fiction and horror television serial, produced by the BBC in 1981.
An adaptation of the novel Child of Vodyanoi by David Wiltshire, The Nightmare Man is set on a small Scottish island with the population gripped by fear following a series of savage murders and the discovery of a strange craft on the local beach.
The four-part serial was adapted for television by Robert Holmes, produced by Ron Craddock and directed by Douglas Camfield.
The major cast members were James Warwick, Celia Imrie, Maurice Roeves and Jonathan Newth.
The serial has been released on DVD (Region 2, UK) by BBC Worldwide as part of their Cult TV range.
Nightmare Man is a 2006 horror film about a tormented woman (Ellen) who believes there is a supernatural thing trying to kill her -- her "nightmare man". Her husband and doctors believe she's a paranoid schizophrenic. On the way to psychiatric ward, the Morris' car breaks down. When her husband goes to get gas, Ellen stays behind and is attacked by her mysterious, horrifying enemy, the Nightmare Man. Escaping into the nearby woods, Ellen stumbles upon a country house where two young couples are spending the weekend who are now also in danger. They do not know if the killer is real or just a figment of Ellen's tortured mind nor if the killer is outside or already inside the house. As people start dying, nobody knows whom they can trust.
The movie was written and directed by veteran film-maker Rolfe Kanefsky; and produced by Paradigm Pictures, a division of Paradigm Entertainment Group , and Frederico Lapenda.
The film was completed in 2006. That same year, it screened at film festivals, such as the Shriekfest horror film festival in Hollywood, and it played for one week in a regular engagement at a theatre in West Hollywood. However, it did not receive actual distribution until it was picked up to be part of the 2007 After Dark Horror Fest, which annually releases eight independent horror films nationwide.http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2007/11/08/nightmare-maker-rolfe-kanefsky
sp. Inskip: Look, all of the evidence we have got to date, points to something which is half human, half animal.
sp. Inskip: You know what worries me, Tom? This guy's not one of our ordinary everyday psychopaths. Like he's not sittin' at home at the moment drinkin' cocoa. No, this guy's totally bananas on both sides of the fence, like a dog with rabies. And I've got four men to police thirty-five square miles.
