Nomads

1986
18
1h 31m

IMDb RATING

5.2/10

5.7K

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Supernatural Horror Drama Horror Mystery Thriller

A French anthropologist specializing in nomadic groups moves to Los Angeles with his wife, and starts following a group of sinister street punks who seem to live and move around in a black v... Read allA French anthropologist specializing in nomadic groups moves to Los Angeles with his wife, and starts following a group of sinister street punks who seem to live and move around in a black van. But they aren't what they seem.A French anthropologist specializing in nomadic groups moves to Los Angeles with his wife, and starts following a group of sinister street punks who seem to live and move around in a black van. But they aren't what they seem.

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IMDb RATING

5.2/10

5.7K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 nomination total

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Nomads

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Nomads: Jean Escapes From The Hospital

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Nomads: Jean Escapes From The Hospital

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Nomads: Jean Witnesses A Murder

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Nomads: Lesley-Anne Down Remembers Filming Nomads

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Trivia
Arnold Schwarzenegger stated in his memoir "Total Recall" that he was so impressed by the film's tense atmosphere, made on a low budget, that he convinced the producers to hire John McTiernan to direct Predator (1987).

Goofs
When Pommier pulls the developed film out of the sink, it's clearly a 35 mm film strip from a movie with the according single frames. Pommier even looks at it in that orientation. As he was shooting with a standard SLR photo camera, the images should be oriented lengthwise on the strip.

Quotes
Jean Charles Pommier: Did you ever have a dream and not know when it started?
[pause]
Jean Charles Pommier: The old men on Atavak used to tell a tale of the dangers of travelling far... of hunting alone, on the ice. How one might no longer know what was... real.
[pause]
Jean Charles Pommier: We are so very far from home you know... All of us. We have wandered so very far from home.

Connections
Featured in Trailer Trauma 3: 80s Horrorthon (2017)

Soundtracks
Strangers
Words & Music by Bill Conti and Ted Nugent
Sung by Dave Amato
[Plays as Pommier follows the punks at night. Also plays during end credits.]

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Featured review

5/10

Of no fixed abode

Nomads is style over substance.

John McTiernan as writer and director delivers this mid 1980s surreal and supernatural thriller with LA punks and a thumping rock score.

The film opens with Dr Flax (Lesley-Anne Down) a tired accident & emergency doctor who is called into treat a deranged French anthropologist Jean Charles Pommier (Pierce Brosnan.) He has only moved to Los Angeles with his wife recently where they have been harrassed by punks and rockers.

Jean Charles dies but not before biting Dr Flax in the neck. She does not become a vampire but she gets his memories and experiences into her head. We are not sure that we are reliving Dr Flax experiences or Jean Charles.

Dr Flax seeks out Jean Charles's wife who is very confused as to why she knows so much about her husband. Meanwhile one of Dr Flax's colleague gets a phrase that Jean Charles was ranting about deciphered.

The phrase comes from the Innuat. It refers to a band of nomadic spirits who live place to place in human form. These punks and rockers might be the nomads intent on evil.

It seems Jean Charles and his wife had been constantly on the run from these nomads. A nun warned him to keep on running and hiding, he might still be able to evade them. He needs to leave LA.

The film is an incoherent mess. It does have a great visual style but the narrative is lost. I did find the film a curious watch and felt that there was a better movie in there somewhere.

Still Brosnan and McTiernan would later reunited in the remake of The Thomas Crown Affair with McTiernan becoming one of Hollywood's top action directors.