The Nightmare (2015)


Eight people experience sleep paralysis, a condition which leaves them unable to move, speak or react.

The Nightmare (2015)

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Released Year: 2015
Runtime: 90 minutes
Genre: Documentary
Directors: Rodney Ascher

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Eight people experience sleep paralysis, a condition which leaves them unable to move, speak or react.

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Reviews


91
IndieWire - Eric Kohn
Cutting between various chilling anecdotes of sinister late night visions and horrifying reenactments, The Nightmare manages a tricky balance of visceral fright and sincere investigation. It's a rare non-fiction achievement that earns the ability to freak you out.
88
Slant Magazine - Chuck Bowen
As in Rodney Ascher's previous film, Room 237, the subject of obsession is complemented by a despairing attempt to process it, corral it, and somehow conquer it.
80
The Guardian - Jordan Hoffman
More frightening (yet strangely entertaining) than most of today’s narrative horror films.
80
The Dissolve - Scott Tobias
With The Nightmare, Ascher abandons the strictures of a conventional documentary to frolic in the terrifying netherworlds of human consciousness. It’s not enough for Ascher, a sufferer himself, to tell his audience about sleep paralysis—they have to feel it, too.
75
The A.V. Club - Mike D'Angelo
The human brain, this movie suggests, is the ultimate horror-movie director, and sleep-paralysis hallucinations are just an extreme form of the standard-issue nightmares we all unwillingly create on a regular basis. It’s one thing to be tormented. It’s another thing to face the grim reality that you’re tormenting yourself.

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Eight people experience sleep paralysis, a condition which leaves them unable to move, speak or react.

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