
Directed: Rodney Ascher
Music: Jonathan Snipes
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"- The Nightmare is a 2015 American documentary film that was directed by Rodney Ascher. The film had its world premiere on 26 January 2015 at the Sundance Film Festival and focuses on the topic of sleep paralysis. Ascher chose to focus on sleep paralysis as it had happened to him in the past. The film's crew initially began approaching participants via "message groups, YouTube videos, and a half dozen books that had been written", but found that participants began approaching them after the documentary's premise was announced.
The documentary focuses on eight people suffering from sleep paralysis, a phenomenon where people find themselves temporarily unable to move, speak, or react to anything while they are falling asleep or awakening. Occasionally this paralysis will be accompanied by physical experiences or hallucinations that have the potential to terrify the individual. In the film Ascher interviews each participant and then tries to re-create their experiences on film with professional actors."








