Akumu tantei (Nightmare Detective)

Akumu tantei (Nightmare Detective) (2006)

  • 52% of users liked it
    (1,696 ratings)

Visionary Japanese director Shinya Tsukamoto (Tetsuo: The Iron Man) returns to the helm with this bleak tale of a supernaturally gifted serial killer with the power to enter his victim's dreams, and the mysterious "Nightmare Detective" who provides the only hope of loosening the… More

Unrated,
Directed By
Written By
Shin'ya Tsukamoto
Genres
Mystery & Suspense, Horror
In Theaters
Oct 14, 2006 Wide

Critic Reviews

  • David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews

    ...cement[s] Tsukomoto's status as one of the most egregiously untalented and flat-out worthless filmmakers around...

  • Pablo Villaca, Cinema em Cena

    Possivelmente o trabalho mais "acessível" de Tsukamoto, é também um dos piores, surgindo como uma cópia sem inspiração de tantos outros exemplares da recente onda do terror japonês.

  • Scott Weinberg, FEARnet

    An Asian combination platter of Dreamscape, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and just about every technology-obsessed J-horror flick you can think of.

  • Sean Axmaker, MSN.com

    Shinya Tsukamoto... moves into the more traditional J-horror currents of madness without the dark humor or wicked twists of his earlier films.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Bruce B


    Another Film From Dimension Extreme, and like all the others I've watched from this company its EXTRME. This is a film from Japan and its the Japanese Freddy Krueger movie, fall a sleep and you commit suicide, and a female detective is after Zero the man who reaches people on a… More

  • Panta O


    I love Japanese horror movie like Ring... and this wasn't in the same class! Nightmare Detective ( 悪夢探偵, Akumu Tantei) is a real slasher directed by Shinya Tsukamoto and starring Ryuhei Matsuda and Hitomi. Masanobu Ando and Ren… More

  • Anthony V


    Nice mixture of horror and surrealism. A very dreamlike feel.

  • Christopher B


    It's really nice to be in the hands of a truly talented director. This is the first Tsukamoto film I've seen in the theater, and I was really excited, and holy eff, was I not disappointed. The film starts out as a sort of artier and meaner Dreamscape (an awesome film in… More

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