# Pesadillas (1983)

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**Original title**: *Nightmares*
**Runtime**: 99 min
**Genres**: Horror, Science Fiction
**Directed by**: Joseph Sargent
**Written by**: Christopher Crowe, Jeffrey Bloom
**Starring**: Cristina Raines, Emilio Estevez, Lance Henriksen, Richard Masur, Veronica Cartwright, Moon Unit Zappa

> *Nightmares... is this year's sleeper.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Desert highway at dusk with a lone car humming. 
A priest's faith unravels, a killer stalks, a gamer obsesses. 
Director Joseph Sargent helms this 80s horror anthology.

**Mood tags**: dread, unhinged

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