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Slumber (Movie Review)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: A level-headed sleep doctor (Maggie Q) is forced to reconcile with her traumatic past when a family she’s treating comes under the sinister spell of a nocturnal demon known as the Night Hag. REVIEW: With a good decade spent...

DVD/BLU-RAY RELEASE DATES: August & September 2015!

Posted 11 years ago

Holy hell, when did it become August?! This summer is flying by, and now that we’re officially entering the dog days, it s time to give an update to our GENRE DVD COVERS & RELEASE DATES section! August is packed...

This Week in Blu-ray / DVD Releases: The Affair, Insurgent, Orphan Black

Posted 11 years ago

This Week: Fooling around with The Affair, the clones keep coming in Orphan Black, and another dip into the Divergent series. ► Despite a rocky start, Showtime’s THE AFFAIR ended up being one of last year’s best new shows. The...

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The Nightmare (Movie Review)

Posted 11 years ago

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...

Review: The Nightmare (Sundance 2015)

Posted 11 years ago

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...

2015 SXSW Midnighters lineup revealed

Riding on the heels of the first wave of films to make a splash at this year’s SXSW Film Festival is the revealing of the Midnighters lineup, one that will surely leave horror fans smiling like a butcher’s dog. What...

Posted 11 years ago

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Review: The Nightmare (Sundance 2015)

Posted 11 years ago

New look at Rodney Ascher’s sleep paralysis doc The Nightmare

Posted 11 years ago

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...

First look at chilling horror doc The Nightmare from Rodney Ascher

Posted 12 years ago

Quite a few people really dug Rodney Ascher’s strangely fascinating documentary ROOM 237, which revolved around the various interpretations of Stanley Kubrick’s THE SHINING. Now, Ascher is back with his new documentary, THE NIGHTMARE, which explores just that—nightmares. Since production...

Room 237 director Rodney Ascher preparing demonic documentary The Nightmare

Posted 13 years ago

Content has just announced that cult director Rodney Ascher (ROOM 237) will direct THE NIGHTMARE, a disturbing investigation into the demonic visions experienced by victims of sleep paralysis and provoked by Ascher’s own unsettling experiences with the condition. Here’s a...