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Jun 5, 2015 · “The 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. While there are similarities in the stories, each person has a different version of the same experience, and Ascher and his production team has worked beautifully to help ...
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Jan 30, 2015 · Mixing talking heads, surreal bedtime re-creations and shamelessly assaultive scare tactics, Ascher’s playful, visually inventive sophomore feature isn’t at the same level as “Room 237 ...
Jan 27, 2015 · Rodney Ascher ‘s 2012 documentary “Room 237” combined numerous conspiracy theories surrounding the meaning of Stephen King’s “The Shining” into a compelling portrait of obsession.
- The Nightmare Is A Documentary That Doubles as Horror
- The Subjects Recognize Their Hallucinations in Scary Movies
- The Nightmare Could Trigger Sleep Paralysis in You
- Rodney Ascher Asks Scary Questions
In an unnerving fashion, The Nightmare simply lays out the evidence and suggests continuity between each experience instead of presenting an opinion on sleep paralysis. Besides being a documentary about a genuinely terrifying condition, Rodney Ascher and cinematographer Bridger Nelson combine the elements of a scary moviewith real-life interviews. ...
The interviewees of The Nightmare are deeply familiar with sleep paralysis. Their hallucinations are not a one-off but a regular part of their lives and an expected part of their sleep. One man claims that during a vision he “immediately stopped being an atheist,” and other subjects seem to say variations of the same thing. They roughly translate t...
During the making of The Nightmare, Rodney Ascher explains that his sleep paralysis was temporarily reignited. In his conversation with The Cinessential, Ascher says that he and a few crew members experienced episodes of sleep paralysis as they were working on the project. Ascher admits that he also heard “reports of people getting it after seeing ...
The Nightmare tries to recreate the sensations of these experiences rather than explain them away with scientific diagnosis. In Ascher’s discussion with The Cinessential, Ascher says that reports of alien abductions or visions of angels could be explained by sleep paralysis. However, he is convinced that these experiences often “resist being put in...
Jun 4, 2015 · Though reviews for Rodney Ascher’s debut documentary Room 237, which collected a handful of elaborate interpretations of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, were generally positive, a handful of prominent figures, including Stephen King and former Kubrick assistant Leon Vitali, came out against the film. The basic gist is that the theories on ...
Jan 28, 2015 · REVIEW: Rodney Ascher’s THE NIGHTMARE should have been a. slamdunk. His SHINING doc, ROOM 237, was unsettling even if most if the interpretations put. across in the film were nonsense.
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Jun 2, 2015 · The horror-doc hybrid “The Nightmare" shares the scarring experiences (and trends) of sleep paralysis, while reimagining them with thrilling live-action presentations. After premiering at the Sundance Film Festival and also SXSW, “The Nightmare” is now set for a limited theatrical release and VOD this Friday, June 5.
