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NIGHTMARES COME AT NIGHT
Les cauchemars naissent la nuit
Synopsis
Two exotic dancers embark on a friendship which takes a turn when one of them begins having recurring nightmares of her killing people in which the line between realty and fantasy begins to blur to the most extreme.
Synopsis
Two exotic dancers embark on a friendship which takes a turn when one of them begins having recurring nightmares of her killing people in which the line between realty and fantasy begins to blur to the most extreme.
Our take
The near unclassifiable Spanish director Jesús Franco has made hundreds (!) of films in a singularly surreal, erotic register. Previously thought lost, Nightmares Come at Night is one of his signature hypnotic dreamscapes: brilliantly fusing dance, desire, and the unconscious.