Project Nightmare (1987)

Project Nightmare (1987)
Director: Donald M. Jones (Don Jones)
Writer: Donald M. Jones, James C. Lane
Cast: Charles Miller, Seth Foster, Elly Koslo
A team of scientists spend their waking hours investigating dreams. To fully understand the nature of the subconscious, they must induce nightmares. Unfortunately, the visions conjured up during these nightmares are manifested into reality. Like the "Id" in Forbidden Planet, the collective fears and desires of the experiment subjects must be destroyed before they´re unleashed on an unsuspecting world. A cast of energetic, moderately talented unknowns appear in this ambitious cheapie.

Strange disjointed sci-fi tale from the director of the truly dire The Forest. Plot concerns two men undergoing some underground psychological endurance test, with the aim of finding a way to mind control people. The pair find themself in a strange nightmarish world that makes little sense, citys seems to have vanished and they're being pursued by some evil presence shown only as a glowing light. Its up to the pair to find out if what they're going through is real, or are they lost in their own personal nightmare.

Real WTF movie this, so little of it made any real sense. A few of the themes seemed to for-shadow the Television show Lost like the use of an hatch and bunker, and the glowing lights seemed somewhat like the Lost islands fog monster. Its a shame in some respect that Project Nightmare never rises from its low budget origins, it looks and feels more like a mid 70's film instead of a mid 80s one. I personally didn't enjoy it that much so wouldn't recommend it. But I guess you've got to commend Don Jones this time for at least trying something different than his dire other low budget opus The Forest.

(4 out of 10)