Urban Nightmare starts as Voodoo Dogs gang leader Terence Smith (Walt Slowe) discovers his Grandmother dead, she had been in the middle of a Voodoo ceremony & the caring kid that Terence is he decides to steal her book of magic & use it for himself... Detective Mike Rogers (writer & director Tom Breedlove) is investigating the so-called strip club robberies in which strip clubs are robbed, obviously. However these thieves leave behind lots of dead bodies as well, along with Satanic pentagrams written with their victims blood at the scene. Terence & his gang, Shenessa Grant (Amy Mitchell), Keesha James (Regenia Michelle), Tyrone White (Abraham Spigner) & Jerome Whales (Kevin Lamont) are responsible for the crimes & Detective Rogers gets lucky with a lead & knows they are but can't prove it, yet. At the scene of their latest robbery the Voodoo gang brutally murder a stripper named Kathy Ann Rider (Kerry White) in from of her fiancé Officer Johnny Ray Crane (Richard "Rummy" Rumfelt) & he swears vengeance which at first seems unlikely when Terence cuts his head off in another gruesome Satanic ritual but the demon he was offering the sacrifice to isn't pleased & brings Officer Crane back from the dead & it's now just whether Crane will catch up with the Voodoo Dogs first or Detective Rogers, either way they're in big trouble...
Written, directed & starring Tom Breedlove Urban Nightmare is just another minuscule budget piece of horror crap that has virtually zero entertainment value. The script annoys, the basic idea is pretty sound but nothing is done with it as the exploitation elements are severely lacking, it's boring & has to feature some of the most irritating character's & dialogue ever. The dialogue is awful & simply having your black character's say 'Mother F*%^%$' as many times as you can is lazy, insulting, offencive, unnecessary, stereotypical, extremely repetitive & bordering on racist, in fact by the end of the film I could virtually guess what they were about to say & on at least three occasions I got it exactly right, just think of the most simplistic dialogue you can & add a few swear words in strategic places. The whole thing is stupid, makes little sense & is a real chore to sit through at 90 odd minutes (not 120 as the IMDb states, thank god). The demon & sacrificial aspects of the story are both vague & tenuous to say the least while peoples motivations are totally incomprehensible. Also while I will suspend my disbelief for few seconds & buy the assumption that someone could staple their head back onto their neck stump with an office stapler I refuse to accept that it would rejoin your neck muscles so you could move your head again, it just wouldn't. Then again maybe I'm thinking about this more than I should & more than the scriptwriter did, in fact I know I am...
Director Breedlove does an OK job considering that the budget for this must have been small to say the least, it's actually a reasonable looking film although there are plenty of day-for-night shots towards the end as it's supposedly nighttime & dark but no-one seems to driving with their headlights on! There's no scares, shocks, excitement, exploitation, atmosphere or anything else that might have saved Urban Nightmare from being the useless piece of cinematic crap that it undoubtedly is. Forget about any decent gore, there's a decapitated head, a neck wound, someone has their heart pulled out & their are some gunshot wounds plus a mouse is pulled in half at the start.
With an estimated budget of about $100,000 this is poverty row stuff all the way. Don't expect to be impressed because you will be disappointed. The acting was poor & why do these black guys swear so much? Is that really the sort of image that they want to portray?
Urban Nightmare is a pretty poor attempt at a horror film, there really isn't anything positive I can say about it I'm afraid. One to avoid.
Written, directed & starring Tom Breedlove Urban Nightmare is just another minuscule budget piece of horror crap that has virtually zero entertainment value. The script annoys, the basic idea is pretty sound but nothing is done with it as the exploitation elements are severely lacking, it's boring & has to feature some of the most irritating character's & dialogue ever. The dialogue is awful & simply having your black character's say 'Mother F*%^%$' as many times as you can is lazy, insulting, offencive, unnecessary, stereotypical, extremely repetitive & bordering on racist, in fact by the end of the film I could virtually guess what they were about to say & on at least three occasions I got it exactly right, just think of the most simplistic dialogue you can & add a few swear words in strategic places. The whole thing is stupid, makes little sense & is a real chore to sit through at 90 odd minutes (not 120 as the IMDb states, thank god). The demon & sacrificial aspects of the story are both vague & tenuous to say the least while peoples motivations are totally incomprehensible. Also while I will suspend my disbelief for few seconds & buy the assumption that someone could staple their head back onto their neck stump with an office stapler I refuse to accept that it would rejoin your neck muscles so you could move your head again, it just wouldn't. Then again maybe I'm thinking about this more than I should & more than the scriptwriter did, in fact I know I am...
Director Breedlove does an OK job considering that the budget for this must have been small to say the least, it's actually a reasonable looking film although there are plenty of day-for-night shots towards the end as it's supposedly nighttime & dark but no-one seems to driving with their headlights on! There's no scares, shocks, excitement, exploitation, atmosphere or anything else that might have saved Urban Nightmare from being the useless piece of cinematic crap that it undoubtedly is. Forget about any decent gore, there's a decapitated head, a neck wound, someone has their heart pulled out & their are some gunshot wounds plus a mouse is pulled in half at the start.
With an estimated budget of about $100,000 this is poverty row stuff all the way. Don't expect to be impressed because you will be disappointed. The acting was poor & why do these black guys swear so much? Is that really the sort of image that they want to portray?
Urban Nightmare is a pretty poor attempt at a horror film, there really isn't anything positive I can say about it I'm afraid. One to avoid.
