Comments on: FAMILY NIGHTMARE

By: SXSW ’12: TULLY’S WRAP-UP – Hammer to Nail

SXSW ’12: TULLY’S WRAP-UP – Hammer to Nail — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 02:41:19 +0000

[…] (Brent Hoff, 15m) * CatCam (Seth Keal, 15m) * Family Nightmare (Dustin Guy Defa, 9m) [Read my full HTN review] * Meaning of Robots (Matt Lenski, 4m) * Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared (Rebecca Sloan and Joseph […]

By: SUNDANCE ’12: TULLY’S WRAP-UP – Hammer to Nail

SUNDANCE ’12: TULLY’S WRAP-UP – Hammer to Nail — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:03:18 +0000

[…] Family Nightmare (Dustin Guy Defa, 10m) — There really is no way to overstate this, so I’ll just state it: Dustin Guy Defa’s Family Nightmare is a flat-out masterpiece. In only ten minutes, Defa manages to lay his family’s history on the table, and what a bleak, sobering history it is (it’s no wonder he was tentative about actually showing this thing to the world). Though no overtly graphic material is contained within, Family Nightmare is such a fragile act of personal expression that it stands as one of the most terrifying psychological horror films I have ever seen. Read my full HTN review. […]

By: A Conversation With Dustin Guy Defa (BAD FEVER) – Hammer to Nail

A Conversation With Dustin Guy Defa (BAD FEVER) – Hammer to Nail — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:22:14 +0000

[…] movement in the 1970s. Months later, Defa unleashed a tour-de-force of a 10-minute documentary, Family Nightmare, in which he revisited the ghosts of his past in a truly devastating way. Just after screening […]