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After attending a rave party, a teenage girl forms a bond with a strange monster as she suffers a slow chaotic mental breakdown.After attending a rave party, a teenage girl forms a bond with a strange monster as she suffers a slow chaotic mental breakdown.After attending a rave party, a teenage girl forms a bond with a strange monster as she suffers a slow chaotic mental breakdown.
- Director
- Writer
- Stars
- Awards
- 1 win & 3 nominations
Wilson Gonzalez
- Adam
- (as a different name)
Phoenix Melville
- Party Guest
- (credit only)
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Did you know
- TriviaThe film was made without any funding from a public broadcaster or film funding organization, which is quite unusual for a German movie released to theaters.
- SoundtracksDune
Written and performed by Oblast
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Raves, time anomalies and monster attachment coming of age story
Against the indispensable backdrop of techno-psychedelic throbbing drug-infused party experiences, a teenage girl starts seeing a hyperstitional monster resembling a living-corpse embryo in her house, which wants to idle around, consume food and come closer to the girl. Alongside classical dynamism of sanity vs. craziness, there's an unique kind of isomorphism going on between the girl and monster — Tina is the monster and grows an attachment to it (when it's hurt, she feels the repercussions on her flesh and mind) — uncovering themes of self-image, uncertainty of pregnancy and relation to friends (especially the guy she has a crush on), making this a more intelligible coming-of-age film (she becomes 18). However the film is edited in a way to seem free and incomprehensible, in the sense that planes of reality, dream and perception are merged, such that for example scenes later in the film seem to occur as if those before didn't happen, vice versa, and so on. The hand-held camera always sweeps to make the viewer feel as a fellow party-goer or a ghost gliding next to the characters. The beginning already introduces a lot of ambiguity with its portrayal of a non-linear time disturbance that's very much related to plausible anxious visions happening on a reckless passionate party night, with its libidinal and death instincts, distinctive visceral flowing trajectories and trips, that fervently coalesce in this psychological rave film.
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- Oct 25, 2017
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- Also known as
- Der Nachtmahr
- Filming locations
- Berlin, Germany(Exterior)
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- Budget
- €80,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 32 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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