The Nightmare
The Nightmare is a 2015 documentary about sleep paralysis from the director of Room 237. For those who are unaware, sleep paralysis is a real medical condition – sufferers find themselves semi-conscious while waking or falling asleep, but they are unable to move due to their brain’s restricted activity.
This paralysis is often accompanied by vivid and terrifying waking dreams or hallucinations. For The Nightmare, director Rodney Ascher and his crew interviewed actual sufferers of sleep paralysis and then attempted to recreate their experiences on camera using horror film techniques.
The result is essentially guaranteed to give viewers a few sleepless nights.
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