The Nightmare

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Movie
German title The Nightmare
Original title The Nightmare
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2015
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Rodney Ascher
production Ross M. Dinerstein ,
Glen Zipper
music Jonathan Snipes
camera Bridger Nielson
cut Saul Herckis

The Nightmare (English for 'The Nightmare') is a 2015 American documentary directed by Rodney Ascher . The film premiered on January 26, 2015 at the Sundance Film Festival and deals with the topic of sleep paralysis . Ascher wanted to make this film because he had experienced sleep paralysis himself. The film team began their work by finding future actors to shoot about "online groups, YouTube videos and half a dozen books that have already been written on the subject". After the goal and topic of the documentary became more and more well-known, those affected approached the film team by themselves.

Summary

The documentary is about eight people affected by sleep paralysis episodes. This is a phenomenon in which people cannot move, speak, or even react for a period of time while in a semi-awake state between falling asleep or awakening.

Sometimes the paralysis is accompanied by impaired physical perception or hallucinations, which can shock those affected. In the film, Ascher interviews each person affected and then tries to recreate the respective experience with professional actors.

criticism

The reviews for the film were mostly positive. The film has a 70% rating on the film critic platform Rotten Tomatoes, based on 40 reviews. The film has received acclaim from media including Indiewire , Screen Daily and Variety . Justin Chang wrote in Variety that "the mixture of interviews, surreal sleep scenes, imitations and startling shock scenes" is not on the same level as in Room 237 , but the film with its predecessor is the "love for eccentric narration and a desire for haunting cinematic forms to give in their darkest form “share. Shock Till You Drop noted that a viewer on the Sundance film "wept over the film out of gratitude," adding that while Ascher did not call in professional scientists or doctors, the documentary effectively brought the terror across.

IGN was more negative, only gave the film a rating of 3.5 out of 10 and said, "The film grazes on its subject, like a person on the verge of falling asleep who never really gets to sleep, but fails to go deep." .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for The Nightmare . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 48652 (VV)). Template: FSK / maintenance / type set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ^ Staci Layne Wilson: Exclusive First Word on the Nightmarish Next Project from Room 237 Director Rodney Ascher . Dread Central. Retrieved March 22, 2015.
  3. ^ A b Bilge Ebiri: Sundance: Room 237 Director Rodney Ascher on His New Documentary The Nightmare . Vulture. Retrieved March 22, 2015.
  4. ↑ THE NIGHTMARE . Sun Dance. Retrieved March 22, 2015.
  5. ↑ THE NIGHTMARE (2015) . Rotten tomatoes. Retrieved June 28, 2015.
  6. ↑ Jordan Hoffman: Sundance 2015 review: The Nightmare - documentary shows truth more frightening than fiction . The Guardian. Retrieved March 22, 2015.
  7. ↑ Eric Kohn: Sundance Review: Rodney Ascher's 'The Nightmare' is One of the Scariest Documentaries Ever . Indiewire. Retrieved March 22, 2015.
  8. ^ Anthony Kaufman: The Nightmare (review) . Screen Daily. Retrieved March 22, 2015.
  9. ↑ Justin Chang: Sundance Film Review: 'The Nightmare' . Variety. Retrieved March 22, 2015.
  10. ^ Samuel Zimmerman: Sundance Review: The Nightmare, a Terrifying Horror-Doc . Shock Till You Drop. Retrieved March 22, 2015.
  11. ↑ http://uk.ign.com/articles/2015/06/04/the-nightmare-review?%20hub%20page%20(front%20page)