Twisted Nightmare is a 1988 American supernatural slasher film written and directed by Paul Hunt and starring Rhonda Gray, Cleve Hall, and Robert Padilla.

Its plot follows a group of young people who return to a summer camp they attended in their youth, and are killed off by a hulking killer.

Among them are Jennifer, Laura, and Tak, and couples Nicole and Jerome, Gus and Sylvia, Ken and Julie, and Dean and Cheri.

Laura is reluctant to be at the camp, as her developmentally disabled brother Matthew died there under mysterious circumstances two years prior.

He explains that his grandfather, a medicine man, cursed the land after it was taken over by Anglo settlers, and that mysterious deaths have since occurred there, particularly in the barn.

Meanwhile, as Sheriff Goodes drives toward the camp to investigate the call he received, he finds Dean and Cheri walking along a road.

Back at the house, Dean searches for the others outside, armed with a rifle, but is confronted by the killer, who summons a bolt of lightning, which electrocutes him to death.

[2] Twisted Nightmare was released regionally in the United States on May 20, 1988, and later premiered in New York City on September 14, and in Los Angeles on November 4.

Surely there's a more intriguing story behind how this sleepy slimeball of a horror film ever earned a theatrical release than there is in the senseless plot line itself".