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The Nightmare
Directed by
Rodney Ascher
Not Rated
2015
90m
Horror
,
Documentary
5.7
67%
43%
5.5
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A look at a frightening condition that plagues thousands; sleep paralysis.
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Cast of The Nightmare
Forrest Borie
Self
Korinne Wilson
Self
Andrew Schwarz
Ghost / Associate Producer
Johnny Depp
Self (archive footage)
Rodney Ascher
Director / Editor
Ross M. Dinerstein
Producer
Glen Zipper
Producer
Tim Kirk
Co-Producer
Jamie Carmichael
Executive Producer
Kevin Iwashina
Executive Producer
Ralph Zipper
Executive Producer
Alexandra Branger
Art Direction
Evan Murphy
Production Design
Ben Spiegelman
Production Design
Bridger Nielson
Director Of Photography
Jonathan Snipes
Original Music Composer
Joel Henry
Line Producer
Jeff Olan
Casting
The Nightmare Ratings & Reviews
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
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.
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
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.
Blu-ray.com
Brian Orndorf
An educational viewing experience, touching on a subject that's not widely understood, sure to play best with audience members who've experienced some form of sleep paralysis.
Nonfics (Substack)
Christopher Campbell
The Nightmare doesn't settle on giving us the willies. It wants to shake us up, to actually leave us restless ... It's a cleverly manipulative piece of nonfiction.
RogerEbert.com
Sheila O'Malley
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.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
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.
New York Times
Ben Kenigsberg
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.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Less a straight doc than a psycho-cinematic inquiry into unknown territory, it's really something to see. Whether it's something to believe is another matter.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
This movie should have made me afraid to go to sleep, but in fact I couldn't wait.
The Dissolve
Scott Tobias
The Nightmare finds Ascher asserting himself much more boldly as a filmmaker: This is documentary horror, not just a documentary about a horror.
Entertainment Weekly
Chris Nashawaty
It's all fascinating and eerie, but also a bit repetitive.
Village Voice
Alan Scherstuhl
A film that reveals the probes-and-saucers narrative as an of-its-era re-skinning of an even more pervasive phenomenon, one all mental: sleep paralysis.
The Hollywood Reporter
John DeFore
Neither as frightening as a good horror flick nor as enlightening as a straight documentary.
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.
Paste Magazine
Tim Grierson
This fascinating film purports to explore the phenomenon of sleep paralysis -- but it's really about how people try to make sense of the inexplicable around them.
Slant Magazine
Carson Lund
The Nightmare exhausts whatever built-in intrigue it has by at least the third or fourth more-or-less identical retelling.
BuzzFeed News
Alison Willmore
Even when the effects are intentionally DIY, these sequences contain surprising jolts and are marvelously effective in portraying dream logic.
AV Club
A.A. Dowd
The resulting set-pieces are as scary as anything in a fictional horror movie.
IndieWire
Eric Kohn
The Nightmare hovers in a place between dreamlike sensations and reality, which grounds its focus.
Variety
Justin Chang
Rodney Ascher's follow-up to 'Room 237' is a unique hybrid of documentary and horror-thriller.
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