Nightmare In A Damaged Brain (DVD)

(A review of just the film.) Yet another video nasty that few people will have heard of, what little reputation Nightmare in a Damaged Brain has suggests that it's a sleazy, misogynistic affair made with a startling degree of ineptitude. I'm not entirely sure where this reputation comes from - although it could obviously be better, it's not nearly as badly made as most of the nasties; and compared to some (Last House on the Left, I Spit on your Grave) this is practically feminist. It was made in 1981, and is one of a very few to have been successfully prosecuted for obscenity in the UK. The director, Romano Scavolini, and most of the cast, made very ...