The Nightmare Man

Story

Synopsis

A heavy fog cuts the small isolated Scottish island off from the mainland, and dentist Michael Gaffikin has just discovered a dismembered corpse on the golf links. Michael and his artist girlfriend, Fiona Patterson, assist the local law enforcements in searching for the murderer. However, as the body count rises and the surrounding circumstances turn increasingly bizarre and gruesome, everyone begins to wonder if the killer is a human or an unimaginable creature...

Director

Douglas Camfield

Writers

Robert Holmes, David Wiltshire

Language

English

Release date

1 May 1981

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  James Warwick

  Michael Gaffikin

• 

  Celia Imrie

  Fiona Patterson

• 

  Maurice Roëves

  Inspector Inskip

• Jonathan Newth

  Colonel Howard

• 

  Tom Watson

  Dr. Goudry

• 

  James Cosmo

  Sergeant Carch

• Fraser Wilson

  P.C. Malcolmson

• Jeff Stewart

  Drummond

• Tony Sibbald

  Symonds

• 

  Pat Gorman

  The Killer