A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio(2020)
2020 · Oliver Park & Matthew Richards & Adam O'Brien & Joshua Long & Pablo S. Pastor & Nicolás Onetti & Luciano Onetti & Sergio Morcillo & A.J. Briones & Jason Bognacki · 100 min
Rod leads a radio show dedicated to horror. Until suddenly the announcer begins to receive strange calls from a child who desperately asks for help. At first thinks that it is a bad joke until he discovers that this is not the case. These calls hide a dark secret…
Horror
5.8124 votes
TMDB score
3/5
Intensity
3/5
Gore
2/5
Stays with you
How A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio scares
A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio is an anthology, stitching together several short segments inside the frame of a late-night radio host taking creepy calls. Each story has its own pace and style, so the scares shift between quiet dread, weird supernatural imagery, and sudden bursts of violence depending on which segment you're in. Because it's made of short pieces, nothing gets too long to build deep dread, but a few segments aim for genuinely unsettling, off-kilter horror rather than cheap jolts. It's a good pick if you like horror anthologies and don't mind uneven quality between segments in exchange for variety.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio rates psychological 4/5, visceral 2/5, gore 3/5, lingering effect 2/5, and overall intensity 3/5.
- Psychological: 4 of 5
- Visceral: 2 of 5
- Gore: 3 of 5
- Lingering: 2 of 5
- Intensity: 3 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 45 of 100 — balanced
Supernatural vs Real-world: 25 of 100 — leans Supernatural
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 55 of 100 — balanced
Intensity over runtime
Shape only — no eventsReveal pacing shapeHide pacing shapeHidden by default — shows where the tension peaks and lets up.
An anthology of short scary stories that each build to a jolt then reset, with the last stretch pushing hardest before the wraparound wraps up.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 2, 3, 4, 2, 3, 4, 2, 3, 4, 4, 5.
How scary is A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio?
On The Horror Database's 0–5 intensity scale, A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio rates 3/5 — solidly scary, balancing creeping dread with well-placed shocks. The fear is mostly in your head — it unsettles far more than it assaults. Expect it to be moderately gory and scary but not punishing. Some of it will follow you to bed, but it lets go within a day or so.
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