Cataclysm

1980 "...the nightmare never ends"
3.8| 1h34m| en
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Police detective, Mitchell, investigating the death of a victim of a Nazi concentration camp discovers a nightclubbing playboy who has strange powers over women and is seemingly ageless.

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Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
Kodie Bird True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.
Keira Brennan The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.
Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.
Red-Barracuda The Nightmare Never Ends is another horror film which riffed off the success of the major blockbuster The Omen (1976). Rather than have an evil child, in this one Satan is an ageless, rather smug looking young man who has taken on various guises throughout the ages in which he has exerted his evil onto mankind. In a recent period of his life he was a sadistic Nazi camp commandant. An elderly man who escaped his clutches during the war recognises him and alerts the police who then tie this character in with a series of unexplained murders.The first time I encountered this one was when I saw the rather ropey anthology horror film Night Train to Terror (1985). That movie had three segments which contained material from unreleased or barely released past movies. The Nightmare Never Ends constituted the latter category as it does seem to have been distributed as it was definitely available in the UK on home video under the title Cataclysm in the early 80's. It has a couple of old hands starring as a pair of grizzled detectives, namely Cameron Mitchell and Marc Lawrence. By this point in their careers these guys were well and truly b-movie regulars, with Mitchell in particular a familiar face to anyone at all well versed in low budget genre films from this period. The film itself is certainly no classic but it succeeded in entertaining me anyway. Its combination of Satanism, Nazis and b-movie cheese was a combination which essentially delivered enough fun, for me at any rate.
hbeeinc OMG! This is just...Jesus...where to start?Take horrible actors, a horrible script and a horribly simplistic theology and you have Cataclysm. To call the performance's wooden is to call a redwood "kinetic". It was the 80's so maybe everybody was on 'ludes.A devout Catholic surgeon, Claire, marries a Noble Prize winning atheist, James, who writes a book called "God is Dead." This arouses the interest of Satan (or Olivier as he's called here). Papini, a monk and Hagrid stand-in, runs around trying to stop James from being recruited by Satan.Sparkling dialog commences:Papini: I took the place of your priest! I told you to kill Olivier! Why didn't you do it?! Claire: I can't kill anyone. I'm a doctor!And yet, at the end of the movie, there's Claire who, after trying to run over Satan with a car (whuh??) throws him in the trunk, takes him back to the hospital and, as he thrashes about on the operating table, proceeds in an OCD fashion, to cut out his heart so..........she can put it in the microwave. I say "OCD" because the woman who helps her get Satan into the OR suddenly begins stabbing Satan and is summarily slapped for doing so. Protocals in the OR MUST BE FOLLOWED or they mean nothing. Neither does this movie.
mwidunn Found this at the grocery store on a 2 movie DVD for a buck! Almost no one in this stinker can act, especially Faith Clift. Noticed there were 3 directors! Explains a lot. This was filmed at the beginning of the 1980's; so, a couple of scenes are filmed in an "evil" disco which seems to be owned by Olivier, a demon/devil/servant of the devil . . . who knows what he is? Never was quite clear about what this film was about. A few good scares and camera shots. Richard Moll appears to have significant greying on his temples in some scenes, and jet black hair in others. Some out-of-date references to energy conservation: so 70's. The whole "God is dead" thing was so 1960's--and, certainly a dead issue by 1980. Series of inexplicable scenes; never explained or tied into anything else. Did I mention Faith Clift couldn't act? The film has something to do with Satan's wish to recruit her character's husband, while a number of people get in the way. Knuckleheads. But, other scenes make it appear that the devil is after Faith herself. What do you expect for 50 cents?
HumanoidOfFlesh "Cataclysm"(1980)is one of the strangest and most disjointed horror movies ever made.The film offers plenty of creepy atmosphere,but overall story is very confusing.The acting is pretty bad,but it's nice to see a horror veteran Cameron Mitchell as a detective.There is also a little bit of gore,but not too much.So if you're a fan of bizarre Satanic horror movies give this one a look.Recommended.My rating:7 out of 10.

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