First up was "Terror in Topanga", where an escaped lunatic is offing the residents of a coastal community. Despite potential danger, a woman slips away from her family for a desperate late night cigarette run, only to stumble upon said danger...
Next is "The Bishop of Battle" - starring Emilio Estevez as a avid gamer/arcade hustler who is obsessed with making it to the allegedly impossible 13th level of a shooter game. After breaking into his arcade hangout past closing, he finds out what this unknown stage of the game has in store for those who make it there.
Then there's "The Benediction" about a priest who loses his faith and decides to quit and move away from his rural U.S./Mexico boarder town, but is intervened by a mysterious, Hellish black pick-up truck that keeps attacking him out on a desolate stretch of desert road.
Finally, "Night of the Rat" concerns a family who seems to have a vermin problem. Turns out they are infested with a legendary uber-rat and it's pissed...
The first two segments are the best, with the third being a decent "Duel" ('71) knock-off and the fourth one not impressing me all that much. "Night of the Rat" just seemed like the slowest of the bunch and, honestly, the superimposed rat effect was really dated looking and took away from the climax for me, I'm sorry to say. The arcade one is easily the best of the four (good enough that the dated effects of THAT one didn't phase me much...), being exceptionally entertaining and the opening segment is a cool 'take' on a familiar urban legend. Maybe they could've used some kind of wrap-around story to kinda tie these together a bit, but overall "Nightmares" is an enjoyable quartet of horror stories.
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