The bad dream It starts with one of horror films’ most elusive clichés, a psycho-horror that tackles the topic of childbearing and commitment, then delves into a dozen supernatural horrors. Review.
It’s a well-known fact that Scandinavians are good at drama and horror, so it’s true that when it comes to horror or thriller in any of the Scandinavian countries, people who accept this more are more likely to come around to it. . And so it was bad dream A plot based on intoxicating clichés, North Nadak filmmakers manage to get away with it. InnocentsYou are there arrivalTo think, then we were still only looking at last year. Norwegian Director, Gerstie Helen Rasmussen Made after some short films bad dreamt, which he wrote and directed, and which proves that all that comes from the North is not gold.
Rasmussen was inspired by several influences: firstly, he was interested in the ghost, which also appears in Scandinavian mythology, whose image is also found in the beliefs of many cultures, and in which psychology found an appropriate term for it–no ghost. : Sleep paralysis. The Norwegian director was fascinated by how the same phenomenon appears in various legends around the world with the same symptoms: it is a state on the border between waking and dreaming, when the person cannot move, there is pressure in his chest. Enjoy the dreams. It’s not hard to find another source of inspiration: about a pregnant woman’s journey through hell (Rosemary’s Child), about the agony of nightmares (Terrible) and about the suffocating atmosphere of a new apartment (Resident) Roman Polanski As already stated, A bad dream Like mashing from these three, unfortunately ten times more effective.
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Rasmussen’s film begins with the biggest horror cliché in existence: a beautiful and happy young couple gets a large apartment for less than the price – of course, someone has died in it, and the neighbors don’t look like a hundred. Despite this, they begin the next chapter of their lives with more confidence, but it soon becomes clear that they have completely different ideas: Robbie keeps nagging Mona about children, and she doesn’t want to hear about it for now. , And the power balance between them is unclear: when man works in a big company, to complete a big deal, Mona buries her dreams that Mona should be a dress designer, because her boyfriend does not stop her, because someone has to make wallpaper for the future children’s room. On the surface, all is not well with them, and both will spend the rest of their lives in their assigned roles, not very happily. The sleep ghost comes into their lives as a special catalyst for their relationship, because after a while Mona struggles with nightmares, which – understandably – affects their relationship as well.
The bad dream It clearly presents itself as psycho-horror, and only really works until it actually does. From a plot point of view, this might be a minor spoiler, which is one of the driving forces behind Journey to Hell, but since it’s already been told in the trailer, we won’t cover it in this review either. . Despite Mona’s best efforts, she becomes pregnant and despite her best efforts, the abortion fails. A particularly sensational interpretation of the film is that we see Mona’s unwanted pregnancy as the true cause of the dream. Her friend’s stressed-out, demonic alter ego gets her pregnant, and she wants to stop her from aborting the baby anyway—Mona’s most visceral fear comes to life in her dreams, which finally drives her to scream. Her friend’s face contained problems. It makes particularly bold use of femininity: it boldly shows menstrual blood and the effect of spontaneous abortion, and parents of young children will surely be saddened by the sight of dead children – because the film does not hold back in this area. One.
The film throws all this in the trash when it suddenly begins to imagine itself as a B-horror: a specialist is called in, who sends the girl to dream therapy, Mona’s dream is monitored on dim screens, the ghosts are lit. Z-type solutions and twists and turns are getting more and more confusing. The plot, which had been building up to that point at a nice, leisurely pace, suddenly switches to a fast pace, with the plot descending into dozens of horrors. bad dream. Rasmussen said in an interview that his biggest challenge was to confuse the viewer between dream and reality scenes, but it doesn’t really work because it doesn’t matter whether we see the character in a dream or not. wake up The exception to this is the finale, but by then the film sags instead of a powerful catharsis, the ending inducing a weary shoulders.
I don’t understand why Rasmussen didn’t find the right balance between visceral horror and slow tension. Apparently, he found the “flesh-and-blood” monster more interesting than the code, but if this was his idle goal, it’s unclear why he spent so much time on relationship drama. No matter how he planned it, the end result was a horror with promising potential, but contrary to its title, one that would cause sleepless nights for some.
Nightmare (Married), 100 minutes, 2022. 24.hu: 5/10