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‘The Nightmare’ is a Different Kind of Scary Documentary

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Christopher Campbell
Aug 04, 2015
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The Nightmare

There are plenty of scary documentaries. Most of them have to do with scary subject matter, such as the threat of nuclear weapons (Peter Watkins’s The War Game and Lucy Walker’s Countdown to Zero take very different approaches nearly half a century apart to make us worried half to death). And certainly horror is a word applicable to countless docs focus…

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