The Nightmare
Director: Rodney Ascher
Music: Jonathan Snipes
Cinematography: Bridger Nielson
Gravitas Ventures
Not Rated | 91 Minutes
Release Date: June 5, 2015

Directed by Rodney Ascher (Room 237), The Nightmare is a documentary-horror film that explores the phenomenon of sleep paralysis through the eyes of eight different people.

Sleep paralysis is a transitional state between wakefulness and sleep. Those afflicted by sleep paralysis are seemingly trapped between the sleeping and waking worlds, unable to move but aware of their surroundings. Paralysis is often accompanied by disturbing hallucinations to which one is unable to react to.