Mjeteconer Just perfect...

LouHomey From my favorite movies..

ShangLuda Admirable film.

Jakoba True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Invalid_ID_DI Against the indispensable backdrop of techno-psychedelic throbbing drug-infused party experiences, a teenage girl starts seeing a hyperstitional monster resembling a living-corpse embryo in her house, which wants to idle around, consume food and come closer to the girl. Alongside classical dynamism of sanity vs. craziness, there's an unique kind of isomorphism going on between the girl and monster — Tina is the monster and grows an attachment to it (when it's hurt, she feels the repercussions on her flesh and mind) — uncovering themes of self-image, uncertainty of pregnancy and relation to friends (especially the guy she has a crush on), making this a more intelligible coming-of-age film (she becomes 18). However the film is edited in a way to seem free and incomprehensible, in the sense that planes of reality, dream and perception are merged, such that for example scenes later in the film seem to occur as if those before didn't happen, vice versa, and so on. The hand-held camera always sweeps to make the viewer feel as a fellow party-goer or a ghost gliding next to the characters. The beginning already introduces a lot of ambiguity with its portrayal of a non-linear time disturbance that's very much related to plausible anxious visions happening on a reckless passionate party night, with its libidinal and death instincts, distinctive visceral flowing trajectories and trips, that fervently coalesce in this psychological rave film.

jadavix "The Nightmare" is the kind of movie that isn't as interesting to watch as it is to read or think about. I believe the direction is what undercuts it; moments don't have the impact they should have. Scenes could have been shot and handled better, but with the wobbly camera, the director himself feels like just another stoned bystander among the movie's teenage ravers.The story is about a party girl who is apparently hit by a car. She survives with no visible injury, but begins to have visions of a creature that looks like a cross between Gollum from "Lord of the Rings" and Dobby the House Elf.The people around her believe that she is going crazy, and perhaps she is.There are several sequences that appear to show the movie rewinding itself, perhaps as an indication to us that the movie is not occurring on a linear timescale. It may also be telling us that the events we just witnessed are the culmination of what we are witnessing again in the rewind sequence.The problem is that the movie doesn't have a sure hand at the controls. It's too disjointed to make you really curious about what you're seeing. The concept is interesting enough, however, to recommend it to students of the weird.

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) "Der Nachtmahr" or "The Nightmare" is a German 90-minute movie from last year (2015). The writer and director is Achim Bornhak (as Akiz) and he is mostly known so far for his fairly weak Uschi Oermaier biopic from almost 10 years ago. His newest work we have here has nothing to do with the world of entertainment or show business, but instead it takes us into the deep and dark world of the female protagonist. She is played by Carolyn Genzkow, one of the new generation if rising German actresses. Other than her, the cast has a couple familiar names like Sina Tkotsch and Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht. And while I think Genzkow did the character justice, I still feel that the awards recognition this film has been receiving recently is way exaggerated.This is the story of a young woman whose life comes apart at the seams when a strange nightmarish (in the truest sense of the word) creature enters her life, namely the one in the film's title. What follows is a collection of scenes from her everyday life as well as scenes with said creature who looks like a(n even more) deformed version of Gollum from "Lord of the Rings". That's basically the core plot and it's a character study where you can never say for sure if the character is really there or it's just a figment of imagination in the girl's head or even if the creature symbolized something else that is wrong with the girl and her life. Decide for yourself. Or don't. For I myself would not really recommend the watch here to anybody other than the people I mentioned in the title of my review. It is not disastrous by any means, but story-wise it felt really unimpressive beyond the shock value. Same can be said about the acting: not bad, but also not good except from Ochsenknecht who is weak as always. The film's atmospheric side (always important with the genre) did not convince me either. Overall, I give this film a thumbs-down and I suggest you go for something else instead as the film dragged quite a bit and had some lengths too. It is really overrated in my opinion.

wdgnwas Der Nachtmahr is a unique and highly innovative genre film made in Germany. What starts out as a potential horror movie quickly turns into a very original piece of art featuring elements of different genres. It's like Donnie Darko and Black Swan were fused together to create something completely new.Tina (superbly portrayed by young German actress Carolyn Genzkow) is 17. All she is interested in are rave parties, drugs and a guy named Adam. One night she spots this strange little creature in the bushes that looks like ET's ugly brother (and ET wasn't a beauty himself). Tina seems to be the only one who is able to see that being that becomes an important part of her life...At the beginning of the film there are two warnings (which tell the audience to beware of both light and sound of the following movie) and a request that this movie should be experienced with high volume nonetheless. At that point I personally thought that these warnings were kind of empty and inserted to generate a dramatic feeling before the actual movie started…And boy, was I wrong. These dance scenes are extremely intense and unique, that's all I will tell you about that, go and experience it yourself!What stands out to me about the cinematographic approach of Der Nachtmahr is this melange of the typical German movie style which features extreme pragmatic and realistic dialogues and characters (90 % of German movies are made that way and most of them suck in my opinion) and these fantasy scenes where the Nachtmahr appears and disappears miraculously. These kind of opposite movie styles fuse throughout the film and there are several scenes where you start wondering what is going on, is it reality or some kind of dream sequence? It's not just that this film doesn't give clear answers to the questions you might have, it constantly tries to lure you in wrong directions…Der Nachtmahr is a splendid film with unique style and an extraordinary approach. You cannot watch it, you have to experience it.