Tag: Dreams

The Nightmare Brigade Review: Gothic Dreamscapes, Hidden Traumas, and Why You Can’t Look Away

In The Nightmare Brigade, a gothic YA graphic novel series, a team ventures into surreal dreamscapes to confront hidden fears and uncover long-buried truths. Across four volumes, it blends psychological thrills with rich, expressive art.

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Nobody is safe from their bad dreams in The Nightmare Brigade. This graphic novel series, written by Franck Thilliez and illustrated by Yomgui Dumon, quietly blew me away when I stumbled on it a few months ago. What begins as a story about battling nightmares quickly reveals a deeper question: Who has the right to mess with someone else’s dreams?

At the center is Professor Angus, the mastermind behind a secretive psy-ops program. His mission? Rescue kids from recurring nightmares and reshape the dream worlds where their fears live. Though Angus created the program, the story truly belongs to Estevan—a lost boy with no memory of where he came from. While those around him don’t seem troubled, readers are left in the dark—and that mystery lingers across all four volumes. It isn’t ignored, just… deferred. And the deeper you read, the more you wonder whether the truth is something even this hero can handle.

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Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep, Please My Lord, Don’t Let The Soul Reaper Come to Keep

Although Soul Reaper treads on familiar territory, the fact it includes some Indonesian folklore into the mix makes it worth the watch.

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When Soul Reaper wants to catch the attention of horror fans, it needs more than just scares—it delivers something fresh by weaving Indonesian folklore into the story. When Respati’s family comes under threat, the teen (Devano Danendra) has to act. Though nightmares haunt him frequently, these visions mean more than just bad dreams—they carry real warnings.

Respati isn’t the only one struggling with sleep. A dark force haunts a group of kids, putting them all at risk. The premise may remind some of Nightmare on Elm Street, and that’s no coincidence—the film draws inspiration from the real-life phenomenon “Sudden Unexplained Nocturnal Death Syndrome” (SUNDS), reported in this region.

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