Entertainment

The Horrors of Sleep Paralysis: Alert, Unable to Move, and Scared Out of Your Mind

NIGHTMARE

The new documentary The Nightmare explores the terrifying phenomenon known as “sleep paralysis”—when you’re semi-conscious but can’t move. It’s the scariest film of the year.

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Were Unsolved Mysteries and A Nightmare on Elm Street to have a threesome with Errol Morris’s true crime classic The Thin Blue Line, the offspring might very well be The Nightmare, a horror-documentary that’s destined to be the scariest thing you see on a screen this summer—and likely to then...

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