Nightmare USA (Complete)
The other Nightmare USA list on site was missing many titles, here are all of them. Independently produced American horror made between 1970-1985, named after the Stephen Thrower book of the same title which rigorously covers this kind of film. No international co-productions or TV movies included.
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- DirectorDon JonesStarsGary KentJohn ParkerStafford MorganTwo deranged brothers, who are under the domineering influence of their crazed mother, kidnap young girls and keep them captive in chains in their basement, where they subject them to depraved "games" that often end in torture and murder.AKA Abducted
- DirectorFredric HobbsStarsChristopher BrooksPeggy BrowneE. Kerrigan PrescottNightclub janitor discovers a secret room, finds old magician's belongings, tries on the costumes and becomes "Alabama, King of the Cosmos."
- DirectorCharles BandStarsRobert GintyLucinda DoolingJohn SanderfordA man seeks revenge on an evil magician who placed a curse on him.
- DirectorFred Olen RayStarsBuster CrabbeRay RobertsLinda LewisA meteor hits a houseboat, turning its occupants into zombies feeding on alligators. As reptiles dwindle, they target townspeople. A scientist investigates disappearances caused by the undead houseboat dwellers.
- DirectorDon DohlerStarsDon LeifertTom GriffithRichard DyszelA science ship with three dangerous specimens collected from around the universe crash lands on Earth. A mysterious stranger named "Ben Zachary" shows up claiming to be able to save the day. Can he do what he claims?
- DirectorSharron MillerStarsJohn EricsonIvor FrancisJudith Novgrod"The House of the Dead" is a 1978 horror anthology movie with "The Mortician" introducing each scary tale.
- DirectorTed RoterStarsGena LeeTed RoterDiane MillerA Satanist uses a mental asylum as cover for his black magic coven.AKA All The Devils Angels
- DirectorLewis TeagueStarsRobert ForsterRobin RikerMichael V. GazzoA pet baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives in the city sewers. Twelve years later, it grows to an enormous size thanks to a diet of discarded laboratory dogs injected with growth hormones. Now, humans have entered the menu.
- DirectorBill RebaneStarsRalph MeekerStafford MorganJohn F. GoffA microorganism from Mars, brought to Earth by a space probe, terrorizes passengers in a railroad office.
- DirectorDave AdamsStarsRuss DubucCynthia StewartRobert McCourtA psychotic killer escapes from an insane asylum and goes on a killing spree, and the SWAT team it sent out to track him down. Kind of. Sort of.
- DirectorGeorg FenadyStarsStella StevensRoddy McDowallElsa LanchesterUpon his death, Arnold marries his lover, Karen, in spite of his widow, and leaves deathtraps accompanied by audiotapes and his preserved and articulate corpse for those who cared only for his money.
- DirectorWilliam GirdlerStarsCharles KissingerCarla BorelliNick JolleyA young woman is brought to an asylum to receive special treatment from a mysterious doctor. Dr. Spector does more than just run the hospital -- he offers his patients as sacrifices to Satan.
- DirectorMichael StanleyStarsRobert NolfiJulia RustRobert LengyelSurvivors of a shipwreck wash up on an island, and run into small vicious creatures.
- DirectorGeorge EdwardsGary GraverStarsCarrie SnodgressRay MillandRuth CoxA librarian devotes her life to caring for her wheelchair-bound tyrannical father after being stood up at the altar. She fantasizes about causing deaths of the men who most wronged her and finds joy only with her pet monkey. Her monkey disappears and a shocking past is revealed.
- DirectorFrederick R. FriedelStarsLeslie LeeJack CanonRay GreenThree criminals on a murder spree arrives at a farmhouse, where a girl is living with her paralyzed grandfather.
- DirectorTed PostStarsAnjanette ComerRuth RomanMarianna HillA social worker, still reeling from the loss of her architect husband, investigates the eccentric, psychedelic Wadsworth Family, consisting of a mother, two daughters, and an adult son with the apparent mental capacity of an infant.
- DirectorJohn HayesStarsSharon ThorpeJohn LeslieLesllie BoveeTroubled and sexually repressed Rosemary has serious issues with her estranged father abandoning her as a little girl at an orphanage. Rosemary neglects the carnal needs of her boyfriend John, so John turns to prostitute Unis to satisfy his lascivious desires. In the wake of her father's sudden passing, Rosemary sinks into a deep depression and finds herself caught up in a surreal erotic nightmare world of sex and death.
- DirectorAlan RudolphStarsAndrew PrineManuela ThiessSherry AlberoniThree showgirls on their way to Las Vegas have stuck all night when their car breaks down. The next morning ,a man offers them help, but, he's really a maniac.AKA Barn Of The Naked Dead
- DirectorHarry KerwinWayne CrawfordStarsWayne CrawfordJason EversRoberta LeightonLittle coastal town is being terrorized by deadly Barracudas.
- DirectorFrank HenenlotterStarsKevin VanHentenryckTerri Susan SmithBeverly BonnerA young man carrying a big basket that contains his extremely deformed, formerly conjoined twin brother seeks vengeance on the doctors who separated them against their will.
- DirectorRay NadeauStarsJacqueline GirouxUschi DigardMarius MazmanianGirls in a nudist camp are terrorized by an Abominable Snowman-type beast.
- DirectorTom Ribeiro
- DirectorPhil KarlsonStarsLee MontgomeryJoseph CampanellaArthur O'ConnellA lonely boy befriends Ben, the leader of a violent swarm of killer rats.The follow up to Willard
- DirectorHerb FreedStarsJohn SaxonLynda Day GeorgeMichael DanteAn architect and his wife move into a colonial mansion, where the demonic presence of the original owner's wife takes residence.
- DirectorChester Novell TurnerStarsShirley L. JonesRicky RoachChester TankersleyA woman buys a doll at a magic shop. Unbeknownst to her, the doll is possessed by an evil spirit, and it proceeds to take her over.
- DirectorElly KennerNorman Thaddeus VaneStarsStephen KnightCassandra GavaJimmy StathisA serially unfaithful businessman rents a spare room from two siblings to use for his sexual conquests, unaware that they're serial killers who murder every woman he brings there.
- DirectorWilliam A. LeveyStarsJohn HartIvory StoneJoe De SueEddie is a Vietnam war veteran who loses both his arms and his legs when he steps on a land mine. A brilliant surgeon is able to attach new limbs, but his assistant switches the DNA injections, transforming him into a huge hulking monster.
- DirectorAndy MilliganStarsAllan BerendtHope StansburyPatricia GaulA werewolf married to Dracula's daughter try to survive in late 19th century Staten Island.
- DirectorJoel M. ReedStarsHarve PresnellJack SomackCurt DawsonThe cast of a horror film go out for dinner with their director one night and they all exchange horror stories.
- DirectorRobert J. AvrechStarsEllen BarberPhilip EnglishSam GrayA beautiful and charming betrothed is promised to a beautiful woman. But he is a completely insane killer and she will be his next victim. Everything that follows the wedding will be a carnival of wickedness, sadism and brutality.
- DirectorChristopher LewisStarsJuli AndelmanCharles EllisJames VanceFemale students on a college campus are being killed and their body parts used for blood sacrifices.
- DirectorBrad F. GrinterSteve HawkesStarsSteve HawkesDana CullivanRandy GrinterA biker gets a job at a turkey farm and agrees to act as guinea pig for some chemicals that need tested, failing to anticipate the murderous side effects.
- DirectorRobert Vincent O'NeilStarsPeter CarpenterMaria De AragonVicki PetersA sex-crazed nympho helps speed along her father's death so she can use the inheritance to help out her depraved boyfriend.
- DirectorAl AdamsonStarsJohn CarradineKent TaylorTommy KirkA mad scientist implants an electronic device into the brain of an injured soldier, which turns him into a psychotic killer.
- DirectorTed V. MikelsStarsLila ZaborinVictor IzayTom PaceLorraine and Mark enter the world of witchcraft where Mara foretells the future and helps them remember their past lives. When a series of mysterious murders begin to occur, they turn to Dr. Helsford for advice.
- DirectorJohn GrissmerStarsLouise LasserMark SoperJulie GordonA boy kills a man and accuses his twin brother of the murder, and the innocent brother ends up institutionalized, while his psychotic twin goes free. 10 years later, the innocent twin escapes, which triggers his brother into killing again.
- DirectorBrianne MurphyStarsAnthony GearySusan DamanteSam GilmanA coven of witches captures a young man traveling through the woods. He gets involved in a power struggle between a beautiful witch and the evil queen who heads the coven.
- DirectorRay Dennis StecklerStarsCarolyn BrandtRon HaydockJason WayneA young woman inherits a ranch that is supposedly haunted by a murderous beast called "The Chooper."
- DirectorAlan J. LeviStarsDonna WilkesRichard JaeckelAntoinette BowerA psychopath escapes from a mental institution and starts a murder spree, which ends in the pursuing of a young handicapped girl, who once got a blood transfusion from him.
- DirectorRobert W. MorganStarsKen MillerToni CrabtreeJerry AlbertTwo tourists in Florida are attacked by a chilling group of backwoods psychopaths.
- DirectorJoseph ZitoStarsJames JohnsonJudith-Marie BerganJerry McGeeA sexually frustrated young man kills hookers.
- DirectorGlen CoburnStarsDan GallionThom MeyersCharles CoburnFarmers in Texas become brainwashed bloodsuckers.
- DirectorJoel M. ReedStarsSeamus O'BrienViju KremNiles McMasterIn the Theatre of the Macabre in New York Sardu and his assistants present a show involving the torture and mutilation of young women. The audience assumes it is just an act but the torture is real, as are the deaths.AKA Bloodsucking Freaks
- DirectorAndy MilliganStarsJohn MirandaAnnabella WoodBerwick KalerA murderous barber and his equally psychopathic friend, a baker, the barber and baker hatch a plan to murder and make human pies to be sold in his shop.
- DirectorEd HuntStarsLori LethinMelinda CordellJulie BrownThree children are born at the height of an eclipse of the sun. Ten years later, they begin to murder the people around them - even their family members.
- DirectorJeff LiebermanStarsZalman KingDeborah WintersMark GoddardA bizarre series of murders begins in Los Angeles, where people start going bald and then become homicidal maniacs. But could the blame rest on a particularly dangerous form of LSD called Blue Sunshine the murderers took ten years before?
- DirectorRomeo DavisArmand WestonStarsColleen AndersonJean DaltonVanessa del RioA spurned woman uses voodoo to exact vengeance on the man she loved.
- DirectorJohn WintergateStarsJohn WintergateKalassuLindsay FreemanA boarding house is reopened years after gruesome murders were committed there. Suddenly, the body count begins once more!
- DirectorDon KeeslarStarsGloria DeHavenAldo RayMarshall ThompsonDynamite fishing in a rural swamp revives a prehistoric gill monster that must have the blood of human females in order to survive.
- DirectorUlli LommelStarsSuzanna LoveJohn CarradineRon JamesThrough the reflection in the mirror, a girl witnesses her mother's boyfriend's murder.
- DirectorBruce PearnUlli LommelPaul WillsonStarsSuzanna LoveUlli LommelShannah HallLacey travels to Hollywood, to the home of a film director, where she brings along the last surviving haunted mirror shard from the end of the first movie as proof to her horrifying experiences.AKA Boogey Man II
- DirectorJames L. ConwayStarsRebecca BaldingFred McCarrenAnne-Marie MartinOtherworldly creatures are released from the bootleg tunnels underneath a small-town mining community, and begin chomping on the locals.
- DirectorFred Olen RayStarsPaul JonesMarcia ScottJohn RayInvading aliens are taking over the brains of folks in a small town.
- DirectorAl AdamsonStarsGrant WilliamsKent TaylorJohn BloomAmir, the benevolent ruler of Kalid, is dying, but there is hope. Freshly deceased, he is flown to the United States where Dr. Trenton transplants his brain into the body of a simpleton in a classic "assistant got the wrong kind of body" plot line. Dr. Trenton has a few nefarious plot twists of his own in mind, and then there's the thing with the dwarf and the women chained in the basement. It's up to Amir's friend Bob and wife Tracey to try and salvage this tale.
- DirectorBob FavoriteStarsDolores FriedlineChuck FaulknerJan ShermanThe DeLorca family has been cursed ever since Carlos' grandfather was interrupted while conjuring evil spirits. The curse makes each DeLorca son turn into a vampire, and upon the birth of his succeeding son, the mother somehow dies. Carlos doesn't want to see that happen to his nephew Juan, who is beginning to show signs of the curse, so he consults a psychic medium, Madame von Kirst, who assures him that there is a way to end the curse. It involves luring four girls to the DeLorca house and performing an incantation.
- DirectorWilliam Allen CastlemanStarsKipp WhitmanDennis BurkleyConnie StricklandA touring small-time rock band called The Group picks up a couple of groupies. One night, the band's drunken, hulking bass player goes nuts and rapes the girls. The band refuses to believe that he's trouble, which leads to more tragedy.
- DirectorBill RebaneStarsJanus RaudkiviRandolph RebaneStafford MorganA series of killings occur, with no suspects, the locals soon decide that Bigfoot is responsible.
- DirectorAndy MilliganStarsDeeann VeederChris GeorgesLeslie Den DoovenCarol and Jonathan, a newlywed couple, move into their new house which is haunted by the ghosts of another newlywed couple who commited suicide in the house three years earlier.
- DirectorLeonard KirtmanStarsEarle EdgertonJudith ResnickMartin BarolskyA psychopathic killer uses the carousel ride at a carnival to pick his victims, who he then murders and dismembers.
- DirectorPhillip MarshakTom McGowanGregg G. TallasStarsCameron MitchellMarc LawrenceFaith CliftMitchell, a police detective investigating the death of a victim of a German concentration camp, discovers a nightclubbing playboy who has strange powers over women and is seemingly ageless.
- DirectorJohn PeyserStarsJaime Lyn BauerAldo RayDennis OlivieriA depraved religious fanatic sets out to punish all the "immoral" women who have posed for the center-fold of a men's magazine.
- DirectorRobert VoskanianStarsLaurel BarnettRosalie ColeFrank JansonA newly hired housekeeper arrives to her employer's house in the countryside. She slowly discovers that the only child in the house, an eleven-year-old girl, hides a deadly secret.
- DirectorFritz KierschStarsPeter HortonLinda HamiltonR.G. ArmstrongA young couple is trapped in a remote town where a dangerous religious cult of children believes that everyone over age 18 must be killed.
- DirectorBob ClarkStarsAlan OrmsbyValerie MamchesJeff GillenSix friends in a theatrical troupe dig up a corpse on an abandoned island to use in a mock Satanic rite. It backfires with deadly consequences.
- DirectorLewis JacksonStarsBrandon MaggartJeffrey DeMunnDianne HullA toy factory worker, mentally scarred as a child upon learning Santa Claus is not real, suffers a nervous breakdown after being belittled at work, and embarks on a Yuletide killing spree.AKA Christmas Evil
- DirectorRichard BansbachRobert E. PearsonStarsJason EversLeon AmesAnthony CarusoHunters wound a grizzly bear in a national forest in Alaska. Soon after, the wounded bear goes off and kills several other hunters, hikers, campers, the sheriff and a little boy scout. Jason Evers sets out to stop it in the frozen plains of the Alaska mountains.
- DirectorBert I. GordonStarsSusan SwiftAlbert SalmiGuy StockwellIn 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts, young Ann Putnam accuses several residents of being witches, and they are tried and put to death. In 1980, young Loreen Graham is on a school outing to the Salem Witch Museum when a wax figure of a man from 1692 comes to life and accosts her. It seems that she may be the reincarnation of Ann, who has accused the man's 5-year-old girl of witchcraft and the girl is scheduled to be burned at the stake. Loreen must fight being possessed by Ann Putnam and confront the evil minister from 1692 who is consorting with Ann to falsely accuse people of witchcraft.AKA The Coming
- DirectorAlfred SoleStarsLinda MillerMildred ClintonPaula E. SheppardIn 1961, a divorced Catholic couple's life is turned upside-down when one of their two adolescent daughters is suspected of her younger sister's brutal murder during her First Holy Communion and a series of subsequent stabbings.
- DirectorMark BlairStarsRobert A. BurnsDennis HillBerkley GarrettAfter being arrested, a Texas man begins confessing to the brutal murder of over 200 women. He recounts his random selection of victims and his traveling companions, his friend and friend's sister. But the police can't be sure whether to believe him or not until he locates a body and shows them some polaroids. Based on the true story of Henry Lee Lucas.
- DirectorTed V. MikelsStarsSean KenneyMonika KellySanford MitchellWhen the Lotus Cat Food Company finds itself in financial trouble, the owners decide to find a new, cheap source of meat -- the local graveyard. Only one problem -- soon cats develop a taste for human flesh, and tabbies are tearing out throats all over town.
- DirectorWilliam R. StrombergStarsRichard CardellaGlen RobertsMark SiegelA meteor that crashed into Oregon's Crater Lake unearths a dinosaur egg. The heat from the meteor causes the egg to hatch, and the emerging dinosaur takes to snacking on the locals.
- DirectorRichard CassidyStarsLaszlo PapasBelle MitchellBeverly RossAfter moving into a boardinghouse, a young woman becomes the object of her lonely neighbor's obsessions.
- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsLane CarrollWill MacMillanHarold Wayne JonesThe military attempts to contain a manmade combat virus that causes death and permanent insanity in those infected, as it overtakes a small Pennsylvania town.
- DirectorJoy N. Houck Jr.StarsJack ElamDub TaylorDennis FimpleTwo men exploring the Louisiana swamps encounter a Bigfoot-type creature.
- DirectorWes OlsenStarsJames F. MooreWes OlsenSandy SchimmelA small town is terrorized by a homicidal maniac known as The Creeper.AKA The Creeper
- DirectorNick MillardStarsPriscilla AldenMichael FloodJane LambertAn obese woman recently released from an insane asylum kills anyone who attempts to get her to stop eating.
- DirectorJack WeisStarsRonald TanetMaureen RidleyHerbert G. JahnckeA witch resurrects a murdered Vietnam vet and takes revenge on his killers.
- DirectorJulio SalvadorRay DantonStarsAndrew PrineMark DamonPatty ShepardTwo archaeologists on a scientific dig come across a vampire burial ground and discover that the creatures are about to awaken and attack a nearby village.
- DirectorDave FlockerStarsBob ClymireJan SwihartBill Simonsen"Curse of Bigfoot" tells the tale of a group of high school students on an archaeological dig who discover a centuries old mummified body in a sealed cave.
- DirectorStewart MalleonStarsJim ScotlinSandy CareyLowell SmithA university professor uses hypnotism, potions and smoke from a glowing stone to get women to have sex with him.
- DirectorJohn KirklandStarsUltra VioletMarland ProctorClaudia ReameA phantom horseman who appears every night with a human head tucked under his arm lets it be known that he is searching for eight gunfighters.
- StarsAdam WestSherry JacksonJeremy SlateA man gets caught up in a cult that demands human sacrifice.
- DirectorTony MalanowskiStarsSteve SandkuhlerChristopher GummerRebecca BachA group of Southern deer hunters stop at a church graveyard in the woods. Their activities arouse the corpses of long-dead Confederate soldiers, who attack them.
- DirectorJohn 'Bud' CardosTobe HooperStarsWilliam DevaneCathy Lee CrosbyRichard JaeckelSomeone, or something, is on an indiscriminate killing and mutilation spree during night-time. Frustrated by the clueless police, the father of the first victim is looking for answers, no matter how far fetched they are.
- DirectorPieter VanderbiltStarsJamie GillisDesiree LaneLynx Canon
- DirectorMartin GoldmanStarsKim HunterJ.J. BarryCarolyne BarryA man accidentally runs down a young girl and has a curse placed on him by the girl's father, an occultist. He goes to a spiritualist for help in fighting the curse.
- DirectorRoger GuermantesStarsLaura CannonPatrice De VeurJune DuluA young couple inadvertently gets mixed up with a coven of Satanic worshipers.
- DirectorJames PolakofStarsBritt EklandLana WoodKabir BediA woman in an unhappy marriage finds sexual fulfillment in her relationship with a ghostly, speechless presence who, obviously, doesn't quite say who he is.AKA Dark Eyes
- DirectorPhil SmootStarsLash La RueAnna Lane TatumCynthia BaileyThe spirits of dead Indians are haunting a couple's house, and they call in an exorcist, whose trademark is a black whip, to get rid of them.
- DirectorJeremy HoenackStarsJames LuisiSusan SullivanJohn KarlenA detective tracks a serial killer through San Francisco.AKA The Dark Ride
- DirectorMartin GreenStarsAldo RayKory ClarkChuck JamisonA woman with psychic visions and an alcoholic past moves into a house where the previous occupant was mysteriously decapitated, and soon suspects the visions she's seeing are her own future.
- DirectorHardi BurtonStarsGerard BroulardKathy HiltonGeoffery PattonOn her eighteenth birthday, a woman is granted by Satan the power to make all of her sexual desires reality.
- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsDavid EmgeKen ForeeScott H. ReinigerDuring an escalating zombie epidemic, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter and his TV executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.
- DirectorHarry ThomasonStarsWink RobertsRoger ManningRobert GinnavenA glowing meteor falls into a secluded pond into which Mafia hitmen have dumped the body of one of their victims. Students from the local college use the pond for a swimming hole. Then the fun begins.
- DirectorCharles ReynoldsStarsWilliam HicksHarris BloodworthDeborah BloodworthIn the 1920s, a man in black rides into a small Southern town to visit retribution upon the citizens who have strayed from the path of righteousness and religion. He does this, of course, by killing them in various bloody ways.
- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsLori CardilleTerry AlexanderJoseph PilatoAs the world is overrun by zombies, a group of scientists and military personnel sheltering in an underground bunker in Florida must decide on how they should deal with the undead horde.
- DirectorTim RitterStarsCathy O'HanlonPatrick FosterTodd NolfFive women on vacation are stalked by a hooded cannibal killer in the town of Sunnyville Florida. Silly antics and H.G. Lewis-style gore follow the survivors in this camp super-8 epic.
- DirectorGary ShermanStarsJames FarentinoMelody AndersonJack AlbertsonSheriff Dan Gillis investigates eerie deaths in a sleepy coastal town.
- DirectorEmerson BixbyStarsEmerson BixbyRachel McBrideMelinda PierceAn unstable filmmaker risks his crew to shoot a documentary in a town overrun with flesh-eating zombies.