My Grading System

A+ = Masterpiece (I hold back on this one.) / A = Great. / A- = Really Good. / B+ = Good. / B = Decent (Serviceable). / B- = Flawed but okay (For those times there's something redeeming about the work). / C+ = Not very good (Skip it). C = Bad. / C- = Awful. / F = Complete Disaster (I hold back on this one too).

Note on Spoilers: I will try to avoid ruining a story by going into too much detail. But if I wish to include some revealing points to my analysis I will try to remember to add a separate spoiler paragraph.

Friday, October 9, 2015

The Nightmare (2015)

Can a documentary be scary?  This one is and it’s because it delves into sleep paralysis and crafts representations of the kind of experiences the interviewees have gone through.   My only complaint is that it gets a bit repetitive but still Rodney Ascher, the director, does an excellent job of capturing the terror that these many people face.   I won’t go so far as to say the film gave me nightmares but it did make me feel a bit uncomfortable as I tried to fall asleep.  You can’t ask for much more than that. B+

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