This movie has been out for almost a decade, but I haven’t heard of it until just recently, but a whole big unspecified number of people have been talking it up of ZOMG so royally scary and you gotta see it type movies. My guess it’s just like anything else on the internet, some content creator was looking for semi-obscure titles to put on their Top 20 YouTube list thingie, then all the other content creators want to make some ad money too so they cannibalize all the other Top 20 lists they see, and now I’m adding to the groupthink phenom by adding it to OkGoreberfest, a website almost as popular as YouTube. So I’ll bite, is this effer as scary as people say?
Not really, no.
It’s a documentary about sleep paralysis. Eight people talk about their experiences with seeing the shadow people and whatnot, and granted it certainly hit my “I’m intrigued” button. It malingered around my “how fascinating” button, but my “I’m mildly startled and unsettled” button has a film of dust over it.
…but I am fascinated, and I am intrigued. It’s a pretty solid doc. And while other documentaries have given me some world class heebie jeebies, The Nightmare doesn’t share that company. Who cares, I’m nobody, watch it anyway. You’re probably more sensitive anyway. That’s at least what people have been saying. About you I mean. That you’re sensitive. I’ve even heard people say you’re a pussy, but I don’t know about that personally, it’s just what people have been saying, I dunno, might be true, but what do I know?
I will admit, this flick has moments. Also take into consideration that we’re not talking about Evil Dead rape-trees in the forest or resurrected serial killers possessing a Betsy Wetsy doll, that stuff is all make-believe. People’s brains are… well delicious, but also, complicated. This stuff is real, it could happen to you tonight, pussy, just through power of suggestion. You could wake up in the middle of the night, but not truly awake, and all the shadow oozy goozies will come get you. It could happen, right? Otherwise, it’s just eight people telling you about their bad dreams.