Nightdreams (1981)

Nightdreams (1981)
Director: Francis Delia
Writer: Jerry Stahl, Stephen Sayadian
Cast: Dorothy LeMay, Loni Sanders, Jennifer West
In an experiment, a pair of scientists use electric jolts to induce a sleeping woman to have erotic dreams.

Twisted surreal fantasy porno from an age when they tried to do more than just a bit of the old in out. Two scientists are testing a woman who claims she never reaches orgasm, they give her electronic stimuli to induce erotic dreams. She then begins to have various wet dreams/nightmares that are played out in truly bizarre ways. Her first dream revolves around having sex with a nightmarish jack in a box clown. Next she has lesbian sex with two cowgirls around a campfire, to the sounds of the wildest Johnny Cash Ring Of Fire cover you are ever likely to hear. Various other dreams include an odd male birthing a fetus, a peeping tom wearing a V for Vendetta styled masked has sex in bath room, there's a comic sex romp with a box of baking mix and then finally making out with a devil in hell itself.

Nightdreams is a really enjoyable porn film for a change with solid direction and a crazy sound track. It was written by Stephen Sayadian and Jerry Stahl who not surprisingly went on to do other strange things together like Café Flesh and Dr. Caligari, Jerry Stahl even wrote an episode of Twin Peaks and acted in David Lynches Inland Empire. The films ending is left somewhat open ended no doubt to make a quick cash in if it became popular. But from what I've read even though Stephen Sayadian was involved in writing/directing, both Nightdreams II & Nightdreams III (which didn't come for almost a decade later) are meant to be pretty poor, (that said I'd still give them a try if I stumbled over them). To sum it up even though Nightdreams is somewhat obscure its well worth hunting down for both the porn connoisseur or just your average weird movie fan in general.

 (8 out of 10)