Nightmares in a Damaged Brain

A man on an experimental drug programme is released, drives to Florida, and the film cuts between his hallucinations and a boy playing pranks on his mother's boyfriend.

Its place in the history is not artistic. David Hamilton-Grant, an executive of its British distributor, was sentenced to eighteen months, later reduced to six, and his colleague Malcolm Fancey to nine months. The version at issue contained 48 seconds of footage the BBFC had not approved.

The marketing claimed Tom Savini had done the effects. He had not, and said so publicly and repeatedly, which the distributor ignored because the claim was selling tapes.

As a film it is slow, and the twist is visible from a considerable distance.