The Nightmare
The Nightmare

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It's summer. One endless, sexy party under the open sky. Tina and her friends are living the dream of a whole generation of decadent Berlin-party-kids. But after one excessive night she's haunted by a mysterious ugly creature in nightmares she has. The only person she talks about her fears to is her psychologist. His advice is to confront her fears and to reach out to the creature. At first Tina refuses but after she hears about her parents' plans to put her in a mental hospi... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Nightmare:

Carolyn Genzkow
Arnd Klawitter
Julika Jenkins
Alexander Scheer
Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht
Kim Gordon

Full Plot Details

It's summer. One endless, sexy party under the open sky. Tina and her friends are living the dream of a whole generation of decadent Berlin-party-kids. But after one excessive night she's haunted by a mysterious ugly creature in nightmares she has. The only person she talks about her fears to is her psychologist. His advice is to confront her fears and to reach out to the creature. At first Tina refuses but after she hears about her parents' plans to put her in a mental hospital she starts talking to the creature. She slowly realizes that the creature is an incarnation of her fears and that it has the same feelings she does. Afraid of being called a freak she starts hiding the creature in her room. After a while she even gets close to it. It's almost like a relationship with a wild stray animal. For the first time in her life, it almost seems as if Tina has the courage to be herself. But then her parents and her friends see the creature...

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Slant Magazine - 9/10 by Carson LundThe Nightmare exhausts whatever built-in intrigue it has by at least the third or fourth more-or-less identical retelling.
Columbus Alive - 9/10 by Brad KeefeThe scariest movie of the year is a documentary. The last movie you ever want to think about before bedtime.
Nuke the Fridge - 9/10 by Fred TopelI'm sure sleep paralysis is truly horrifying to the people who experience it. A documentary filled with cheesy re-enactments of it is not.
IndieWire - 9/10 by Eric KohnCutting 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.
Slant Magazine - 9/10 by Chuck BowenAs 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.
Guardian - 8/10 by Peter BradshawAscher makes a persuasive case that it is the physiological phenomenon of sleep paralysis that has created the nightmare tropes now commonplace in art and literature: they are recognisable, diagnosable symptoms.
RogerEbert.com - 8/10 by Sheila O'MalleyThe Nightmare is more effective than the esoteric "Room 237" because it represents a full immersion into a common human experience. The re-enactments are superb.
Miami Herald - 8/10 by Rene RodriguezThat’s one of the great accomplishments of Ascher’s film: Intercutting his interviews with fictional recreations of what the subjects are describing allows you to see a version of what they saw, and you don’t need to believe any of it for The Nightmare to give you a major case of the creeps.
The Guardian - 8/10 by Jordan HoffmanMore frightening (yet strangely entertaining) than most of today’s narrative horror films.
The Dissolve - 8/10 by Scott TobiasWith 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.

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