The Nightmare approaches. Rodney Aschers must-see horror-doc is out this June 5th, and a new trailer for the film highlights both its intensely creepy reenactment sequences, as well as one of the strongest and most interesting themes in Aschers filmmaking: how we filter our own personal experience through the movies.
Ascher is best known for his kaleidoscopic The Shining doc, Room 237, which saw a panel of viewers lay bare their intricate theories and analyses on what exactly Kubrick was up to in his horror classic. Here, Ascher examines the phenomenon of sleep paralysis, interviewing a key group of sufferers and in turn, dramatizing their experiences. Its a kind of horror thats worse than like in the movies, says a subject. Its a common kind of sentence and what that, and the dramatization, does is ultimately help us put on a lens through which to understand their plight; that is, if you dont experience sleep paralysis yourself, which research seems to indicate many do.
Gravitas releases The Nightmare this June. For more, see Shocks review here.
The Nightmare: Trailer “Right Behind Me” from Rodney Ascher on Vimeo.
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