The Nightmare

It’s all fascinating and eerie...

...an exploration of ‘sleep paralysis’, a condition in which sufferers are trapped between sleep and wakefulness, experiencing terrifying visual and aural hallucinations.

...makes a disturbingly persuasive case for the origins of nightmare tropes in art and literature.

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 bring that to life.