Rodney Ascher

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Popcorn Frights Film Festival announces first wave of films

For those who may not know, the Popcorn Frights Film Festival is Florida's largest and most respected genre film event. The fest is celebrating its third year, occurring August 11 – 17, at Miami's O Cinema Wynwood theater and today...

Shudder kicks off original programming with documentary Primal Screen

Following the lead of other streaming services like Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu, AMC Networks' genre-centric premium streaming service Shudder has announced that they have begun developing their own original content. There are currently six projects in the works that will...
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The Nightmare (Movie Review)

PLOT: ROOM 237 director Rodney Ascher continues his pseudo-documentary stylings by interviewing eight people victimized by sleep paralysis. The common thread? They’re all more or less vexed by the same suffocating NIGHTMARE: sleep paralysis! REVIEW: After leaving the doc world...
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New stills from Rodney Ascher’s The Nightmare

Rodney Ascher's new documentary, THE NIGHTMARE, is set for a VOD and limited theatrical release in just a few weeks, June 5th, and what’s on tap for today is a handful of creepy new stills, giving us a quick look...
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New trailer for Rodney Ascher’s The Nightmare

Rodney Ascher's new documentary, THE NIGHTMARE, is getting set for its VOD and limited theatrical release on June 5th, and today we have an all-new trailer that sneaks up behind you. Dig it below! “This project was a once in...

Peep the trailer for Rodney Ascher’s The Nightmare

A little over a week it's been since seeing the newest poster for Rodney Ascher's THE NIGHTMARE, the much anticipated follow up to his doc ROOM 237. Well now we have a look at the first official trailer for the...

Review: The Nightmare (Sundance 2015)

PLOT: A documentary focusing on the phenomenon of sleep paralysis as experienced by eight strangers. REVIEW: Rodney Ascher’s THE NIGHTMARE should have been a slam­dunk. His SHINING doc, ROOM 237, was unsettling even if most if the interpretations put across...
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New look at Rodney Ascher’s sleep paralysis doc The Nightmare

The mind behind ROOM 237, a documentary that explores the batshit crazy interpretations of Stanley Kubrick’s THE SHINING, will be hitting the Sundance Film Festival in January with his new film, THE NIGHTMARE. Directed by Rodney Ascher, THE NIGHTMARE focuses...
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