Title from container. Originally released as a motion picture in 1964. Special features: New audio commentary with Bruce Hallenbeck; new "Sleepless nights" - reflecting on a Nightmare movie; new "Slice and fright" - actor Jonathan Rigby remembers Nightmare; New "Relliving the nightmare" - interviews; "Nightmare in the making"; "Jennie Linden remembers"; "Madhouse": Inside Hammer's Nightmare; still gallery. David Knight, Moira Redmond, Jennie Linden, Brenda Bruce, George A. Cooper, Clytie Jessop, Irene Richmond.
Summary:
As a child, Janet witnessed an unbearable horror her insane mother stabbing her father to death. Now a young woman, Janet suffers from recurring nightmares that have her convinced that she'll follow her mother to the asylum. Accompanied by her schoolteacher, Miss Lewis, Janet retreats to the home of her guardian, who has hired lovely Grace as a companion to help calm his troubled ward. But Janet's nightly terrors, magnified by the eerie, creaky old house, bring all her fears chillingly to life. Are Janet's problems all in her head ... or is there a sinister force at work?
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