AllMovie

Louise Sorel plays a mild-mannered young woman saddled with a cruel and overbearing husband (John Vernon). Her slow, methodical solution to the problem is anything but mild. In hopes of permanently eliminating her domestic irritation, the harried Ms. Sorel creates far deeper problems for herself than she'd ever imagined. Don Stroud and a pre-MASH Mike Farrell costar in this taped suspenser. Nightmare Step was originally telecast on the late-night network anthology ABC Wide World Mystery.