Adam Ant, Anna Maria Monticelli, Frank Doubleday
Pierce Brosnan, bloody and beaten and hysterically screaming in French, whispers a word, Innuat, into the ear of emergency-room physician Lesley-Anne Down and promptly dies. John McTiernan (...( read more
)) knows how to kick off a movie, and his directorial debut, Nomads, shows a real flair for visual tension and eerie imagery. For reasons never explained, Down relives the final days of anthropologist Brosnan in mind-jolting flashes of memories that send her stumbling across L.A. and into the path of a demonic gang of black-leather punks (led by cult singer Adam Ant). McTiernan's ambition overreaches his abilities--the muddled story depends on smart people doing dumb things, and the hints of personalities merging in Down's tormented psyche remain frustratingly unexplored--but his sense of mood and mystery created solely out of suggestion is unerring. There's a fascinating movie lost in the confusion of this unsettling supernatural thriller. --Sean Axmaker
DVD Release Date: April 16, 2002
Stats: 55 reviews
bizarre but good. another movie that feels like acid. this film is completely in its own genre. great soundtrack heavily featuring ted nugent too! the same director went on to direct predator as well as die hard 1 and 3
Great movie! This is definitely one of my all time favorites in the supernatural suspense collection. Pierce Brosnan truly shines in this, and the story plot is highly intriguing. Brosnan is a French cultural anthropologist who is studying the various patterns of nomadic people i...( read more)
Suspense and horror movies from the late 70s and early 80s really suffer from their sense of fashion and pop music score, don?t they. This movie was one that my older sisters got when I was a little one and I didn?t make it through it. Now, I had seen worse horror movies before t...( read more)
Scared the life out of me; hated it. But love Pierce Brosnan always!
One of the first movies I saw with Pierce in. Adam Ant is in it too. This movie is messed up! It was freaky and kept you wondering what the heck is going on throughout. An old classic.
Loved the storyline, a modern day haunting and a descent from one world into the nether regions of another. I'd change a few things if I were writing/directing it, but it's worth watching, twice even.
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