The Nightmare Man
1981, English. Directed by Douglas Camfield.
A heavy fog cuts the small isolated Scottish island off from the mainland, and dentist Michael Gaffikin has just discovered a dismembered corpse on the golf links. Michael and his artist girlfriend, Fiona Patterson, assist the local law enforcements in searching for the murderer. However, as the body count rises and the surrounding circumstances turn increasingly bizarre and gruesome, everyone begins to wonder if the killer is a human or an unimaginable creature...
- Runtime
- 1h 58m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- English
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- 1 May 1981
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- Robert Holmes
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The Nightmare Man runs 118 minutes (1h 58m).
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The Nightmare Man isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 May 1981. (Checked 10 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Nightmare Man?
The Nightmare Man (1981) was directed by Douglas Camfield and stars James Warwick, Celia Imrie, Maurice Roëves.