Describing a Jess Franco directed film as a curio is like describing the sky as 'a bit blue'. 'Nightmares Come at Night' – not one of the greatest titles – is either a hypnotic and sensual journey, or barely comprehensible, badly shot, softcore porn.Susan Korda, or Soledad Miranda as she is better known, plays the air-headed girlfriend of 'the neighbour' in very brief scenes that don't do her justice. Diana Lorys plays Anna de Istria, who is being driven out of her mind, or so it seems. Her friend Cynthia (Colette Giacobine) may or may not have something to do with this. The always brilliant Paul Muller plays Dr. Lucas, again pretty under-used. As the story goes, that is pretty much it – not that intricate plot contrivances usually bothered Franco too much.The rest is much as expected – a fine, jazzy musical soundtrack, lots of swooping cameras and 'deliberately' blurred scenes, extravagantly made-up women and shifty men. It doesn't, however, add anything new, horrific, or particularly interesting and so the attention tends to drift more than once before some answers are finally revealed at the end.Perfunctory by Jess Franco's standards. Not unenjoyable, but not very engaging either.

Two exotic dancers embark on a erotic friendship which takes a turn when one of them begins having recurring nightmares of her killing people in which the line between realty and fantasy begins to blur to the most extreme.Maybe I was let down because the film has some terrible dubbing, but if the words they say are accurate, this is an awful story. Such pointless dialogue, and no real plot. The film seems to revolve around showing a woman naked repeatedly, while she may or may not be crazy.Further, I am told this movie is actually two unfinished movies sort of edited together. Normally that would never work, but with a Jess Franco film, you can hardly say it is even much worse than his usual stuff. Sadly, this may be the worst of his films I have seen.

Sexy, but troubled stripper Anna de Istria (a convincingly distraught performance by lovely and well-built brunette Diana Lorys) gets involved with the aloof and domineering Cynthia Robins (an effectively icy portrayal by yummy buxom blonde Colette Giacobine). Anna suffers from disturbing nightmares. Is Anna going crazy? Or is someone trying to drive her mad? Writer/director Jess Franco relates the absorbing story with his usual singularly languid, yet engrossing style: the seething erotic content (Anna's seemingly endless lethargic striptease act in a seedy nightclub in particular is simply priceless), deliberate pace, and meandering flashback-ridden narrative combine together to create a strangely hypnotic dream-like atmosphere. Naturally, we also get a plethora of tasty distaff nudity and a smidgen of sizzling lesbian soft-core sex. This film further benefits from sound acting by the capable cast: Lorys and Giacobine do excellent work in the lead roles, Paul Muller lends sturdy support as sympathetic psychiatrist Dr. Paul Lucas, Jack Taylor has a stand-out cameo as Cynthia's amorous and charismatic lover, and the striking and mesmerizing Soledad Miranda makes a strong impression in the regrettably small part of a flighty and impatient tramp. Jose Climet's roving and restless cinematography boasts a wealth of wonky zoom-ins as the camera goes in and out of focus throughout. Bruno Nicolai's groovy score hits the get-down funky spot. The surprise downbeat ending packs one hell of a punch. Well worth a look for Franco fans.

Nightmares Come at Night isn't one of Jess Franco's most famous movies. And it's not his best either. But it really does deserves more attention than it gets. It's a very entertainment and erotic thriller starring the beautiful Diana Lorys (The Awful Dr. Orloff) and Paul Muller. The plot is about a woman (Anna) who starts having weird and scary nightmares of her killing people. To make things worse, the people in her dreams appear dead the next morning. Is Anna really going insane or she's the victim of a much more sinister plan? As I said before, this is not one of Franco's best films. It has an uneven pace, bad acting and he really waste the talent of actress Soledad Miranda, who appears in a tiny and incidental character. But the movie also has good things going on. The story is very worthy, there's a lot of nudity, there are some scenes that are very hypnotic and the score by Bruno Nicolai is brilliant (one of the best of his career in my opinion). The opening credits are a very nice touch also.Very underrated Franco flick. A 7/10 from me.