Nightmare City

Nightmare City (1980) is an Italian horror film directed by Umberto Lenzi — watch it online on iFILM. It stars Hugo Stiglitz alongside Hollywood veteran Mel Ferrer.

An unmarked military aircraft lands without warning. TV reporter Dean Miller is there when the passengers start coming off — fast, violent, and armed. Not supernatural: the film's premise is radiation contamination, which leaves its victims conscious and mobile rather than shambling. Miller tries to alert the authorities and get his wife out of the city before the situation locks down entirely. The film was shot mainly in Spain.

By 1980 standards, Lenzi's contaminated moved like people and used weapons — behavior that wouldn't become genre-standard until decades later. That gap is why horror fans still seek it out. Stream Nightmare City online on iFILM.