{"id":13737,"date":"2020-09-07T20:00:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T00:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13737"},"modified":"2020-09-06T14:42:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T18:42:55","slug":"the-nightmare-2015-akiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13737","title":{"rendered":"The Nightmare (2015, Akiz)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now something from the Filmmakers of the Present, a section for first and second features.  This would be at least Achim Bornhak&#8217;s third feature if letterboxd is to be believed &#8211; I see an oil-driller bomb-thriller from 1998 and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/eight-miles-high-2008\">commie\/model\/groupie biopic<\/a> in 2007.  The director now goes by Akiz, because the name Bornhak allows for cheap puns in English-language reviews.<\/p>\n<p>A thumping dance beat movie with strobey lights &#8211; <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/13090\">Gaspar Noe<\/a> influenced?  Three girls, speaking German, attend a party and become concerned that a Tommy <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/517\">Gnosis<\/a>-looking boy they know has shown up.  Leaving the party in handheld wide-angle, Tina gets super-killed by a passing car while picking up a necklace &#8211; or she had a premonition of this happening &#8211; or she saw a cellphone video of it happening to someone else and simply passed out.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image20\/nightmare1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Either way, Tina isn&#8217;t quite the same when she gets home, having nightmares of a creature that raids her parents&#8217; fridge at night.  Her psychiatrist tells her to touch the beast and prove it&#8217;s real, so she does, and it is &#8211; and it&#8217;s blind and clumsy, and psychically linked to Tina, so she starts taking care of it until they&#8217;re discovered and separated by the government.  So Tina dresses for a night at the club and heads to the hospital for a covert rescue operation.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image20\/nightmare2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Or maybe it&#8217;s <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11553\">Neon Demon<\/a><\/em> influenced, I dunno, it seems somehow derivative even though I keep naming films that came out after this.  Cutting back and forth on the beat between domestic\/hangout scenes and club scenes is cool, but mostly reminded me of that great Michael Smiley episode of <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7260\">Spaced<\/a>, and the movie is probably much more enjoyable if you can stand rave music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now something from the Filmmakers of the Present, a section for first and second features. This would be at least Achim Bornhak&#8217;s third feature if letterboxd is to be believed &#8211; I see an oil-driller bomb-thriller from 1998 and a commie\/model\/groupie biopic in 2007. The director now goes by Akiz, because the name Bornhak allows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,122,54,2284],"class_list":["post-13737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-germany","tag-horror","tag-lnkarno"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13752,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13737\/revisions\/13752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}