The Nightmare

An interesting document about a problem that personally does not bother me, but is still interesting. The portrayal is also not bad, and it is clear that there was an effort to convey nightmares to the viewer, at least to paraphrase the feelings that a person experiencing nightmares and paralysis has. Unfortunately, I do not think it was completely successful. I did not have such strong impressions from the movie. (15/06/2015)

As a documentary The Nightmare wasn’t very eloquent. We see several people telling us that they suffer from sleep paralysis (during which they experience terrifying visions) and that that is not at all pleasant. That’s all that can objectively be said about it. But the film gets quite a few points with the recreations of those terrifying visions. I put it on at midnight, alone in a dark room, lying on my bed, and I’d be lying if I said that I didn’t get the chills sometimes. Especially in a couple of scenes in the last half hour, where the documentarists suggest the rather unsettling thesis that sleep paralysis may be something else, like a peek into the realm of demons. That lead to a relatively restless sleep. 65% (21/06/2015)