Nomads is a 1986 American horror film written and directed by John McTiernan, adapted from the novel of the same name by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. It stars Pierce Brosnan, Lesley-Anne Down, and Anna Maria Monticelli. The story involves a French …

Nomads: Directed by John McTiernan. With Lesley-Anne Down, Pierce Brosnan, Anna Maria Monticelli, Adam Ant. 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.

According to Eskimo legends, they are nomadic spirits who wander the Earth in human form, spreading evil. That is not the complicated part of the plot. The hard part is what we have to slog through before we find out about Innuats. The movie starts with Lesley-Anne Down as an emergency-room doctor.

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French anthropologist Jean Charles Pommier dies in an emergency room after being terrorized by something. However, Dr. Eileen Flax, who tried to save him, suddenly receives his memories by psychic means, and relieves his last few days in a long flashback.

Evil spirits haunt a French anthropologist and inhabit the doctor who treats him.

Nomads is a 1986 American horror movie directed by first time director John McTiernan and was based on the 1984 novel of the same name by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. It stars Pierce Brosnan, Lesley-Anne Down, Anna-Maria Monticelli, Adam Ant, Nina Foch, Frances Bay, Frank Doubleday.

One night, in a Los Angeles hospital, Dr. Flax attends to a seriously injured man who, apparently crazed, whispers mysterious and disconcerting words in French into her ear.

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. George Pappas ... Gérard Depardieu was considered to be the lead before role went to Brosnan.