The Nightmare

The Nightmare is a 2015 German drama and psychological horror film directed by . The title and themes are inspired by the otherwise unrelated painting The Nightmare by Swiss painter Henry Fuseli. Rock musician Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth) has a cameo as an English poetry teacher. Plot The film opens with a warning about its intense usage of strobe lights and disorienting sound profiles. During a hot summer in Berlin the 17-year old Tina and her friends travel to a late-evening party at a public swimming pool. One of the girls tells Tina about a misshapen embryo shown to students during biology class. She takes a photograph of Tina with her smartphone to morph her into the picture. Later someone else also shows her someone getting run over by a car in a video on his smartphone. During the party Tina notices a bizarre creature in the forest and is so frightened that she wants to go home. Once back at the car she notices her necklace is missing and spots pieces of it on the street. As she gets out the car and cobbles it back together a car passes by and smacks her down. A few moments later Tina wakes up, apparently not hurt fatally. A feeling of déjà-vu strikes her, as scenes similar to what happened before take place again, including her getting in the car and noticing her necklace is gone.