Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!

MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting

Brennan Camacho Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Hitchcoc I really like this one. Once again, the poor bearded man tries to get some shuteye. Unfortunately, he has a series of visions (dreams). The first is pleasant, a pretty young woman; but when he tries to embrace her, she turns into a black man with a banjo. That guy transforms into a clown, and finally a big dominating face. The pacing is very good and the thing is genuinely funny.

CitizenCaine In some of his earlier films, Georges Melies used jump-cutting and/or freeze-framing to propel the action and/or change the scene. In this film, A Nightmare, Melies continues using the jump-cut technique, but he now combines this with changing the backdrops in each successive scene. A man has a nightmare, dreams of a clown, etc. until the moon itself is upon the man and trying to take a bite out of him. The moon is hopelessly made out of some cardboard or other such material flexing around from the way it's hung, but the film shows man interacting with his dreams and then returns him to reality at the end. Melies has begun film's fascination with fantasy and perhaps science fiction as well. *** of 4 stars.

Michael_Elliott Nightmare, A (1896) **** (out of 4) aka Le Cauchemar A man (played by Melies) is asleep in bed when he begins a nice dream of a woman lying on the end of the bed but soon this turns into a nightmare as a monkey, a clown and the moon begin to play tricks on him. Here another classic from the director, which contains some very good laughs including the sequence where the moon comes to life and attacks him. The special effects here are also very good for the era and it's rather amazing how good they are considering what else was being done at the time. The film runs just over a minute and there's not a dry scene to witness. Certainly one of the best films from this era.

boblipton Having discovered -- whether purposefully or, as the story would have us believe, accidentally -- the magical qualities of the cut and used it in the previous years ESCAMOTAGE D'UNE DAME CHEZ ROBERT-HOUDIN, Melies elaborated on it in this short in which a man suffers a series of terrible nightmares. As in the best of Melies, he can not only see his enormous creativity, but perceive his great sense of humor and appreciate his playfulness in the new medium. When they're doing Oscars for 1897, this gets my vote for best foreign film! This is one of the many previously lost or infrequently seen Melies pictures that have been made available by Serge Bromberg, David Shepherd and a myriad of other hands in the newly issued DVD set GEORGES MELIES: FIRST WIZARD OF CINEMA. Required viewing for anyone interested in the history of movies ..... and a lot of fun.