Nomads

And what is with his accent? Dear Lord......

I love horror movies. Huge horror buff.

I have been watching horror movies for 40 years but I had not heard of Nomads until it was screened (thankfully for free) on TV the other night. Silly plot about a French anthropologist Pierce Brosnan, who has one of the worst French accents ever, who follows and spies on an evil, urban leather clad gang, accompanied by cheesy '80's guitar riffs.

After watching (tolerating) this movie through the worst and awful French accent I've ever heard, the storyline was quite different and surprising. Lesley Ann Down was great as usual...

A French anthropologist (Pierce Brosnan's first leading role in a feature movie) moves to Los Angeles and is followed by the evil spirits of an extinct tribe he once uncovered. A woman doctor (Lesley-Anne Down who married director William Friedkin) investigates and becomes the next target of a group of rare people with nomadic life .

If you want narrative plot summary, read the one posted on the IMDb. However, here are a few observations about "Nomads.

Nomads tries, I think, to achieve a horror dimension from Direction and good performances, much like 1979's The Brood or Performance (1971). John Carpenter movies and Stephen King were making a name for themselves around that time too.

First films are tricky. You very rarely get the sort of unrivaled success of Orson Welles.

Dr. Eileen Flax (Lesley-Anne Down) is called to attend to a crazed man (Pierce Brosnan) covered in blood and shouting in French; he dies shortly after, but not before he grabs the doctor and whispers something in her ear.