Zbigniew_Krycsiwiki Another title I was first introduced to as part of Night Train To Terror, this film, on its own, doesn't stand up as well as far as unintended humour, or just being a good movie. Released under a variety of different titles: Cataclysm, Satan's Supper, and The Nightmare Never Ends, none of which have anything to do with the film itself. This review based on the 88-minutes long version titled The Nightmare Never Ends. In the first scene, Claire Hanson, wakes up startled after dreaming of volcanic lava, then decides to go for a scenic drive with hubby, James Hansen (Richard Moll). Moll's character is a sort of hybrid of Anton LeVay and Freidrich Nietzsche, who is promoting a book titled 'God is Dead', with ridiculous dyed grey sideburns, his voice occasionally badly dubbed, and wearing an ill-fitted suit (although, being 6'8" tall, one supposes it is difficult to find suits which really fit well) Whilst under hypnosis, Claire Hanson recalls Nazi parties from the 1930s. An old man believes that a young man is the same Nazi who killed his family 35 years earlier, in 1944. The old man isn't believed by the police and goes after him himself, and is then killed by some fanged demon who blows a hole in his chest. Investigation of his murder leads nowhere, but the end of the set is clearly visible in this scene, as are the camera's own dolly tracks. The body is autopsied by Claire Hanson, who continues having nightmares and see demons, and it is revealed that the young man is Satan, who has remained eternally young and killed people for centuries. Here, the devil looks like the guy from KC And The Sunshine Band, with feathered hair and painted-on eyebrows that take up half of his forehead. His goal is not made clear in this confusing and dramatically awkward film, awkward in that Moll's lead character is killed off 25 minutes before the end of the movie. Also odd is that some of the best effects seemed to have been edited out and included in the anthology Night Train To Terror. Occasionally interesting set designs and lighting, but that can't compensate for such a weird story, with such an awful ending.

junk-monkey This film has only one thing going for it and that is Faith Clift. I have not seen any of her other movies but she has entered my Pantheon of all time deliriously awful actors on the strength of this 'performance' alone. I have never before seen an actor get EVERY line of a movie wrong before. OK the script she has to deliver is pretty dire but every single word she utters is so misread it is brilliant. Almost expressionless she just points her piggy little nose in the general direction of someone else in the scene and delivers her lines as if she were reading them off idiot boards two words at a time. She's so gloriously inept she's worth the price of the admission alone. Incidentally, the old lady who says something unintelligible in the bookshop is also called Clift. Faith's mother doing a cameo? I would love to know the story behind the making of this film. Any movie that can get through (at least) three Directors and two Directors of Photography has more potential interest going on behind the camera than in front of it.The editing was atrocious, some scenes were cut off mid word (the version I watched was called The Nightmare Never Ends in the Nightmare Worlds boxset - this movie has, apparently, been re-edited several times).Some of the Music was pretty good, but as it was library tracks of Gustaf Holst's Planet Suite that's hardly surprising.

ericdetrick2002 I am a collector of really bad movies from the 70s and 80s (both because Ienjoy them, and I can usually pick them up in the "bargain bin" in many stores). I purchased a 10 movie set of bad horror films and this was on one of the double sided DVDs. But the funny thing is, it was not only miss labeled as another movie on the DVD itself, but it was titled "Shiver" in the opening credits. So as usual, I logged onto IMDb to look up a review for it, but nothing would come up under that title. It wasn't until towards the end of the movie that I realized that the main character who wrote the book, "God Is Dead", was the tall bald baloff from the hit 80s TV show Night Court- Richard Moll! So I looked up Richard Moll on IMDb and brought up his filmography and there it was, Cataclysm (1980)! The plot summary matched and I had found that others have seen this mysterious movie.The other reviewers pretty much sum it up- if you like really bad low budget horror flicks you could have fun with this one. It was slightly entertaining, had some amusing parts. The "Satanic Stud" dude who hangs out in the nightclubs with ladies all around him is hilarious. I especially like the part where he lifts his pants leg up exposing his hairy "devil legs" and the girl screams- LOL.I'm just glad to know I am not the only one who spent part of my life watching this movie.

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.