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A Nightmare Wakes
Directed by
Nora Unkel
Not Rated
2020
1h 31m
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An adaptation of the novel "Frankenstein," as told through the life of Mary Shelley. As she creates her masterpiece, she gives birth to a monster.
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Cast of A Nightmare Wakes
Alix Wilton Regan
Mary Shelley
Giullian Yao Gioiello
Percy Shelley
Philippe Bowgen
Lord Byron
Claire Glassford
Claire Clairmont
Lee Garrett
Dr. John Polidori
Shannon Spangler
Harriet Shelley
A Nightmare Wakes Ratings & Reviews
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
Unlike Frankenstein's monster, this one never comes alive.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Proves to be another bad film on the writing of "Frankenstein."
TheArtsStl
Sarah Boslaugh
Unkel, who also wrote the screenplay, evokes with great sensuality the daily experience of life in the 19th century.
Bloody Disgusting
John Squires
A Nightmare Wakes filters a biopic through the lens of a horror movie, painting a heartbreaking portrait of one woman's pain and the enduring piece of art that it led her to create.
The Young Folks
Yasmin Kleinbart
With a lifeless cast and an even more lifeless script, A Nightmare Wakes is a bad dream you'll wish to wake up from.
The Lens
Andrew Wyatt
It might have been merely dull and slipshod, but A Nightmare Wake's ahistorical and insulting portrayal of Shelley is what truly rankles.
NME (New Musical Express)
Dan Stubbs
Good times are few and far between as Lord Byron invites his pals to the literary equivalent of Camp Arawak...
Knotfest
Nicolás Delgadillo
May be full of spine-chilling dreams and the odd jump scare, but its real scares come from the psychological downward spiral that we watch Mary go through.
Tilt Magazine
Christopher Cross
Achingly painful, A Nightmare Wakes is a must-watch for those looking for a horror film that is refreshing and innovative.
Vague Visages
Joey Keogh
At best, this is a misguided attempt to make a gothic horror story about the most famous gothic horror story writer in history. At worst, it's an insult to the legacy of that very same genius.
Backseat Mafia
Rob Aldam
Tackles a familiar story from an unusual angle, with mixed results.
The Spool
Gena Radcliffe
A Nightmare Wakes is a dry and detached drama, broken up with the occasional nightmare or sex scene.
Boston Hassle
Oscar Goff
A smart, haunting little film, a gothic fantasia about the grandmother of all gothic horrors.
Cultured Vultures
Natasha Alvar
Nora Unkel's A Nightmare Wakes is a gothic reimagining of Mary Shelley's life where the viewer is transported to a hallucinatory space and asked to drink in the madness as we watch her create.
Eye for Film
Jennie Kermode
This is a world swollen with guilt and the weight of consequence. It's a portrait of gestation at its ugliest and most vital, of Mary unbound.
Cinema76
Ryan Silberstein
"... Unkel effectively blends story and myth, as the creation of the novel is nearly as famous as the creation of the Creature himself."
CBR
Josh Bell
In attempting to celebrate one of the greatest writers in the history of genre fiction, A Nightmare Wakes reduces her to an unwitting, tormented observer of her own wretched life.
B-Sides & Badlands
Bee Delores
Emotional punches, largely at the hands of Alix Wilton Regan as Mary Shelley, keep the viewer jolted awake, even if the story itself falls into a drowsy stupor.
But Why Tho? A Geek Community
Kate Sánchez
A Nightmare Wakes is a good film. It's an intimate film. And ultimately, it feels like a personal film for Unkel.
The Blogging Banshee
Molly Henery
A Nightmare Wakes uniquely melds historical fiction and literary adaptation into one film, but it loses Mary Shelley's spirit in the process.
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