Review of Nomads (1986) by Bill M — 01 Apr 2014
Slick, intelligent, and demanding that the viewer watch, listen, and follow a perfectly plotted storyline, "Nomads" is the thinking person's "Fright Night". The titular demons are only '80's punks because story takes place in the '80's.
Today they might be gangbangers, a hundred years ago they would have been street thugs, and so on. In fact, they are whatever they need to be in order to thrive, and thrive they do, at terrible cost to their victims.
If you need blood thrown at the screen, glowing-eyed children scuttling across ceilings or tedious CGI whiz bang effects to frighten you, "Nomads" is not the movie for you. And Pierce Brosnan's French accent is, in a word, deplorable.
But John McTiernan's looming terror ghost story, set in a moody depiction of an L.A. that is never quite fully illuminated, even in broad daylight, leaving plenty of shadows that let things... collect.
.. is, in it's own way as powerful a masterpiece of tension and horror as Takashi Miike's "Audition". Just as the lead character in Audition could not see thee threat of the lovely Asami in "Audition", in "Nomads", too, the protagonists, like the audience, will see only what they look for.
The luckiest of viewers will finish this film with a crawling certainty that what they saw was looking back.
This review of Nomads (1986) was written by Bill M on 01 Apr 2014.
Nomads has generally received mixed reviews.
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