American Nightmares Movie Download

8 / 10

Enjoyable horror anthology
Mr. Malevolent (robustly played with lip-smacking relish by Danny Trejo) hacks into the computers owned by a couple of online millennial blackmailers and forces the pair to watch an assortment of nightmarish videos.

1st story, “Mates” – Neat and charming sci-fi tale.
2nd story, “The Prosecutor” – Jay Mohr delivers a deliciously smarmy turn as a slimy lawyer who receives a brutal comeuppance for sending an innocent black man to death row.
3rd story, “White Flight” – Another tale with a harsh and ironic bent to it.
4th story, “The Samaritan” – Weird, creepy, and perverse pip.
5th story, “Hate Radio” – Yet another story with a nasty edge to it that also manages to be funny in an admittedly cruel sort of way.
6th story, “The Healer” – Spot-on segment about a shameless religious con man who acquires actual healing powers that come at a bitter price. Clarence Williams III shines as a vengeful father.
7th story, “Thy Will Be Done” – Hilariously sick vignette with a real doozy of a surprise ending.

Writers/directors Darin Scott and Rusty Cundieff maintain a brisk pace throughout, adhere to a pleasing EC Comics-style aesthetic in which bad folks who do bad things reap what they sow, provide plenty of stinging (if occasionally heavy-handed) social commentary, and further spice things up with a wickedly amusing sense of black humor. Good twisted fun.Read More