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The Nightmare
Description
A look at a frightening condition that plagues thousands: sleep paralysis. These people often find themselves trapped between the sleeping and waking worlds, totally unable to move but aware of their surroundings while being subject to frequently disturbing sights and sounds. A strange element to these visions is that despite the fact that they know nothing of one another, many see similar ghostly ';;;;shadow men.';;;;
A look at a frightening condition that plagues thousands: sleep paralysis. These people often find themselves trapped between the sleeping and waking worlds, totally unable to move but aware of their surroundings while being subject to frequently disturbing sights and sounds. A strange element to these visions is that despite the fact that they know nothing of one another, many see similar ghostly ';;;;shadow men.';;;;
Actors:
Yatoya Toy,
Heather Langenkamp,
Steve Joseph,
Age Wilson,
Estrella Cristina,
Nicole Bosworth,
Elise Robson,
Johnny Depp,
Siegfried Peters,
Buffy Visick
Yatoya Toy
Heather Langenkamp
17 July 1964, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Steve Joseph
2 December 1988, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Age Wilson
Estrella Cristina
Nicole Bosworth
Elise Robson
Johnny Depp
9 June 1963, Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
Siegfried Peters
Buffy Visick
Genre:
Adventure, Documentary, Thriller
Director:
Rodney Ascher
Rodney Ascher
Country:
United States
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January 17, 2017
The Nightmare squanders [its] subject in a shallow, messy and frustrating documentary that tends towards the pseudo-intellectual and paranoid.
January 02, 2016
The Nightmare is a completely singular work of documentary, unseen before to this degree of craftsmanship.
June 10, 2015
In the faces of these men and women, ranging in age from their 20s to their 40s and spread out everywhere from Los Angeles to Manchester, you can see the genuine terror they suffered - and, in some cases, continue to suffer.
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December 18, 2015
It's compelling viewing, as well as disturbing as hell. Honestly, who needs the spectres of Insidious: Chapter 3 when our own brains are capable of scaring us half to death.
June 04, 2015
Ascher is too content to let repetition of experience take over his film. No sleep studiers or brain experts or anybody else, for that matter, are interviewed.
June 11, 2015
It just isn't as informative as it could be. It's plenty scary, and on that level satisfying. It would be great to see Ascher make a full-on horror feature.
June 04, 2015
While "Room 237" sought evidence for its most outlandish conceits, "The Nightmare" declines to delve. As the testimonies grow repetitive, the strategy suggests willful ignorance.
June 05, 2015
Ascher plunges us into the actual visions that sleep paralysis creates: the moving silhouette figures, the darkness, the static. The sense of terror is palpable.
February 24, 2016
An intriguing feature, but one that ends up dulling your senses with repetitive talking heads and recreated scenarios.
October 05, 2015
While there is a well-maintained sense of lurking discomfort, the gotcha scenes feel a little cheap.
December 31, 2015
Both the re-creations and the interviews themselves are filmed for maximum spookiness.
