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American Nightmare (1983)
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| | 88 min.
| | Directed by Don McBrearty.
| | With Lora Staley, Lawrence Day, Lenore Zann, Michael Ironside, Larry Aubrey, Paul Bradley, Michael Copeman, Neil Dainard, Page Fletcher, Alexandra Paul, Claudia Udy.
| | When a young woman flirting with the seedy urban underworld goes missing, her brother (Day) arrives to investigate.
What he finds is a hotbed of prostitutes, strippers, a cross dresser...and a killer wearing surgical gloves dispatching the aforementioned with a razor.
This 1981-filmed Canadian slasher-cum-mystery is a solid, worthwhile effort, the sleazy neon settings providing just the right atmosphere for the "moralist" killer.
A few nice death sequences punctuate the plot. Day and Staley are good as the leads, Zann and the underused Ironside (both in Visiting Hours) lend support.
Music by Paul Zaza.
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