Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Mehdi Hoffman There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

lougurgitano This film had the potential to be both fascinating and help a lot of people. Instead, the filmmakers setlled on producing a cheap horror piece. Good documentaries illuminate a subject and educate the viewer, while they entertain him/her. This film gets stuck in the first act and never comes out of it. Like a person who suffers sleep paralysis and gets stuck suffering because he/she is unable to find a healthy cognitive way out, The Nightmare is happy being a film that will only convince further the suffering individual that he/she will probably go on suffering possibly till their dying day. The film is completely one-sided. It does not interview anyone else than the sufferers and offers no objective perspectives on the possible causes and treatments for the condition. In fact, it fuels the negative self-suggestion cycle that sufferes of the condition are already stuck on. As a sufferer of sleep paralysis who found control over the problem with logical realizations which I worked to overpower the mythical ones, I felt that my side of the sleep paralysis population was not only not represented, but intentionally left out to make a more scary film. If they were not going to have any scientific interviewees, they could have at least interviewed some who had overcome fear rather than succumbed to it. As is, the film is as irresponsible and reproachable as someone who has unprotected sex, knowing that he/she is infected with HIV. One of their very interviewees tells them that sleep paralysis is like a STD, as it is enough to suggest to easily suggestable individuals the concept and images of sleep paralysis for them to formulate it in their minds the next time they go to sleep. Yet, they chose to make a cheap horror film, probably with the sole intention of capitalizing on the suffering rather than be a shining light against it. What a failure! What a disappointing waste of a great opportunity! I hope that sufferes of sleep paralysis will be able to read this and know that there are very simple and effective methods to conquer sleep paralysis. All that sleep paralysis is, is a self-justifying cycle of fear that starts with a non-sensical, dream-level interpretation of a normal physical state to which most people normally just sleep through. However, once that the above mentioned interpretation (fantasy) is given the room to be accepted as reality, the mind, due to fear, becomes obsessed with it and now becomes hyper vigilant of the normal physical state and repeatedly remains awake and trying to justify it. Hence the self-feeding cycle. Once that you choose to believe that what you are exprienving are just bad dreams, you can choose to remain peacefully and confidently still. When you do, you don't feel the need to increase your breathing rate and fight against the relaxed self-controlled breathing that your asleep body is managing. It takes a little courage, but the courage can be found in trusting others, like me, who have conquered this state. Furthermore that courage and confidence will grow, in its own self-feeding cycle, once that you try it once and see that the fantasy has no real power over you as long as you don't give it the power of your fear. It is all a very logical and explainable problem. You can choose to see it as that, or you can choose to see it as unexplainable and unalterable. The choice is yours. Whatever you do, don't just take what this film has to offer. Good luck!

Cheesenode Gosh, I wish this movie wasn't so technically flawed! You know what, I'll get to that in a minute. This flick is pretty cool, it is a documentary about people with Sleep Paralysis, a condition that causes you to feel petrified in the moments between wake and sleep and is accompanied by horrifying visions. This is the fuel for nightmares, so the title is pretty well suited to the film. The reenactments are pretty good, there are a couple of lame jump scares, you see them coming, but they still make you jump – not scary, but still gets the blood moving. Where The Nightmare shines, though, is in the reenactments with the shadow figures; they're creepy, they're moving around your house at night, they're watching you sleep, and they might be trying to steal your soul.Sadly, though the visuals in the reenactments can be pretty good, there are some massive editing issues for me. The film has a self reflexive participatory mode (using that documentary film class right there) and while mode works fine for the film, I think it steals a little thunder from the reenactments, which is really just too bad.More than the mode of the film causing it to be a little rough is the massive number of jump-cuts. I think that the director has watched too many YouTube videos and thinks that jump-cuts are normal and okay. Sadly, he's wrong, and his film suffers because of it. The jump-cuts are distracting for two reasons: 1. Visually they are just distracting, they look weird, and you notice them which draws you out of the story; and 2. you start wondering exactly what was cut out. Once you start wondering about this, you have a whole new level of distraction, and you start to wonder if the stories these people are telling just aren't as good as you're being led to believe.All in all, The Nightmare is pretty good, and I think people should watch it. Not only is the film informative, but wonderfully entertaining and a little scary. So, turn out the lights, look up The Nightmare on Netflix, and get your educational-horror on!

bwdude First off, this is by no means a documentary.It is made more like one of those Blair-witch or Paranormal Activities type thingies.And it is just as much nonsense and waste of time.Alright, a handful of people do have kinda similar dreams and nightmares.At least half of them don't seem to be doing that good in life anyways.If you really believe for a moment, that this "hatman" or the shadow dudes are real, you really have bigger problems than that and should possibly seek professional help.

tylermoore The directing and editing on this documentary are very well done. Lots of really great horror imagery. I'm not sure if it's the people embellishing their stories or if the interviews are just scripted to begin with. But something feels incredibly fake about a lot of it. I really hate giving this a bad score. I was going to give a lower one but at least a 5 is average. Its a very well made movie, but some of the stories people were telling made me cringe with how made up they felt. Who knows, though. Maybe they did experience that. But for one reason or another, I didn't buy it. If you're interested in the topic of sleep paralysis, this is a decent watch. Check it out on Netflix. You might like it more than I did.