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* Taylor in ''Film/TheTrumpProphecy'' suffers from frequent nightmares related to fire and [[DeathOfAChild the boy he failed to save at the start of the film]] before they slowly transition into prophetic dreams.
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* ''Film/TheZombieApocalypseInApartmenr14F'': Raymond and Joey have a few nightmares over the course of the film about zombies. Whether it be getting caught by zombies, or discovering Red is one of them.
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* ''Film/TheUndertaker1988'': Early in the movie, Nick has a nightmare of when he was a kid, and his uncle [[BigBad Roscoe]] makes him get closer than he's comfortable with to a dead body.
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* ''Film/GrandmothersHouse'': On the first night [[RaisedByGrandparents living with his grandparents]], David has a dream where he sees his grandpa carry a body down into the basement. He sneaks down and spies on him through a shelf covered in jars of preserves, seeing his grandpa preparing knives to cut up a woman. One of the jars falls over, alerting him to David's presence. David tries to hide under a blanket, but his grandfather finds him immediately and decides to start stabbing him in the stomach. At that point, David wakes up.
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* ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon'':
** There's one upsetting nightmare scene in which the protagonist sees his family shot in their home by what can only be described as [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Zombie Werewolf Nazi Goblins]]. The fact that ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' is playing on the television doesn't help. Quite possibly one of the most horrifying nightmares in all of film.
** Then there's the one where he's seen biting a deer.
* In ''Film/BadDreams'', the protagonist Cynthia, who went into a coma after barely surviving a mass suicide, is tormented by images of the dead cult leader, Harris.
* In ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', [[Comicbook/{{Batman}} Bruce]] has several nightmare sequences, the first one being the opening of the film itself, with Bruce reliving [[DeathByOriginStory his parent's murder]], and the day of their funeral, where he accidentally fell into the caves beneath the Wayne estate, disturbing the bats within. Although it's subverted with the "Knightmare", where Bruce finds himself in a wasteland that was once Gotham, as a [[LaResistance resistance fighter]] against an oppressive regime led by Comicbook/{{Superman}}. The fact that the nightmare contains things Bruce doesn't know about at this point, such as [[Comicbook/NewGods Parademons]], and the appearance of [[Comicbook/TheFlash Barry Allen]] at the end with an OminousMessageFromTheFuture, makes this clear this wasn't a dream, but a vision of a BadFuture.
* In the 1996 film ''Film/TheCableGuy'', the main character Steven has a nightmare in which Chip (Creator/JimCarrey) pounds on the door a few times but there's no answer, but later he bursts through the door and snarls, "I JUST WANT TO HANG OUT. ...NO BIG DEAL!" and chases him. This nightmare is a parody of the chase scene from ''Wolf''.
* ''Film/TheDayTheEarthCaughtFire'' plays the sequence throughout the movie. What starts with two atomic bombs being activated at the same time, ends with the Earth gradually being pulled towards the Sun.
* ''Film/DeathWish4TheCrackdown'' opens with Kersey confronting three muggers who beat and rape a girl. When Kersey kills all three, the last one he rolls over turns out to be himself. Kersey then wakes up via CatapultNightmare.
* A whimsical example in ''Film/EarthGirlsAreEasy'': In the afterglow of her night with [[MagicalGirlfriend alien paramour Mac]], Valerie slips into a DeliberatelyMonochrome dream that starts with a TV set screening clips from ''Film/EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers'' and, as she desperately changes the channel, the 1946 ''Film/{{Beauty and the Beast|1946}}'' -- the latter confronting her with her romantic dilemma: Should she go with Mac to his home world, since he's leaving as soon as his ship is fixed? She then looks outside to find that the familiar faces of her neighborhood are all aliens of various sorts, and as she runs through her house in a panic there are even more creatures and robots running amok. She tries to turn to her Earthly (and unfaithful) fiance Ted for help, only to see him start attacking pre-makeover Mac as the dream dissolves.
* There's a good chance that ''Film/{{Eraserhead}}'' is entirely made out of this trope.
* Two-thirds into ''Film/TheFall'', Alexandria accidentally falls off a shelf and bumps her head, sending her into a trippy montage merging together random fantasy sequences (including the FramingDevice story she's being told throughout the rest of the film), a personal flashback to her village being raided, and a terrifyingly uncanny StopMotion sequence of a doll being operated on (tortured?) by mysterious figures in hoods.
* In ''Film/TheFly1986'' Veronica (Creator/GeenaDavis), having found out she's pregnant by a man who is undergoing a SlowTransformation into a HalfHumanHybrid, subsequently has a nightmare in which she gives birth to a squirming maggot-like creature. The film originally was to have an epilogue that included a DreamSequence in which a human baby with butterfly wings emerges from a chrysalis as a hopeful counterpart to this, and answering the question of whether she would bring her pregnancy to term or not, but none of the ''four'' filmed versions of the sequence played well with the creators or test audiences so the film instead closes with [[spoiler: her lover's death by her hand]] and leaves the question unanswered.
* The film ''Film/TheGhostAndTheDarkness'' has a scene after the protagonist kills the first lion. The railroad construction is back on track and his wife is coming to visit with their new baby. [[CatapultNightmare And then the other lion comes running out of the grass.]]
* In ''Film/{{Gothika}}'', the main character suffers two of these.
* Michael and Laurie have these in ''Film/HalloweenII2009''.
* In ''Film/HerbieRidesAgain'', CorruptCorporateExecutive Alonzo Hawk is tormented in his dreams by evil Volkswagen Beetles after Herbie thwarts his evil schemes.
* In ''Film/HollowMan'', Linda is fast asleep in bed with the windows wide open. Suddenly, the bed covers slip off of her and Caine crawls onto her bed, takes her underwear off, and begins to rape her. And then she wakes up with the bed covers still on her.
** In a similar manner, ''Film/RosemarysBaby'', has a sequence in which Rosemary is [[spoiler:drugged and undressed by her husband and a local cult, and then raped in her sleep by the devil. She later awakens to discover that she is pregnant, but her husband goes along with her assumption that he "went ahead and did it".]]
* ''Film/TheLazarusEffect'' has Zoe's recurring nightmare of a fire when she was young.
* ''Film/LostCreek'': After meeting Maggie, [[TheProtagonist Peter]] starts having nightmares about a distorting sounding voice calling out to him.
* ''Film/MissionImpossibleFallout'' opens with Ethan having one of these. It has Ethan marrying Julia in what appears to be at a lake, when the priest is revealed to be Solomon Lane, who tells Ethan that he should have killed him. A nuclear explosion suddenly appears and vaporizes all three before he wakes up.
** There's another one later in the film, when Ethan's sleeping in the back of the team van on the way to London. This dream also features Julia and Lane, and Ethan wakes just as suddenly and silently, looking just as shaken.
** Ethan has a vivid nightmare/hallucination sequence while traumatized and sleep-deprived in [[Film/MissionImpossible the first film]] as well, this one heavily blurring the boundaries between dream and reality.
* The "Moloch Machine" sequence from the silent classic ''Film/{{Metropolis}}''. After witnessing a dreadful accident, Freder hallucinates one of the machines in the lower levels of the city is a shrine to a GodOfEvil, consuming the workers killed in keeping it running like human sacrifices.
* ''Film/{{Monkeybone}}'' has many - a drug that could be described as "Nightmare Fuel" is even a plot point.
* Liu Kang has one of these after being knocked unconscious by Nightwolf in ''Film/MortalKombatAnnihilation''.
* The heroine in ''Film/NextOfKin1982'' experiences two of these over the course of the film, both hinting at events from her childhood and the possibility of a family curse. In the first, she sees herself as a young girl wandering the deserted hallways of the Montclare retirement home while carrying a red ball. In the second, she sees a recent drowning victim [[SurrealHorror swimming towards her window and tapping at it]].
* The entire ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'' series is themed around this, as Freddy Krueger attacks his victims through nightmares. Even worse, considering how much power he has over the dreamscape, he is able to manipulate your dreams according to your fears, desires and insecurities. Makes the glove itself feel like being put to sleep in comparison, not to mention a more merciful death at that (let's just say the multitude of freakish nightmares some of the teenagers suffer increase in frequency the further the series progresses rather than describe them).
* ''Film/PeeWeesBigAdventure'' has two of these -- in the first one he sees a stop-motion dinosaur eat his beloved, missing bicycle, and in the second [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7kw0WiUB5c there's evil clowns and even a trip to Hell!]] A third scene was also filmed involving a giant monkey (which is actually Francis), but was deleted.
* Rambo has one of these in ''Film/RamboIV'', which culminates in Trautman shooting Rambo in the stomach, which was from the original planned ending for ''Film/FirstBlood''.
* ''Film/TheSecretGarden'': Mary, at one point, has a bad dream in which her mother leaves her in a jungly version of the garden, and she's a little kid.
* Another Creator/WesCraven movie, ''Film/TheSerpentAndTheRainbow'', includes several zombie-themed nightmares suffered by the protagonist.
* The dream sequence the main character in ''Film/SonOfTheMask'' has. His wife being pregnant and giving birth... only to reveal that she is pregnant with many, many, ''many'' babies, all squirming and crying with fanged mouths.
* ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'' opens with Picard finding himself inside a Borg cube and part of the collective hive mind, before he's experimented on and his eyes are almost pierced by a needle. There's a fakeout where it seems like he's woken up, but then a Borg implant bursts out of his cheek before he wakes up for real.
* ''Film/StrangeNature'': Kim has one about her son growing up into a deformed mutant with a half-frog face as a result of living in her town. In the dream, after eating, he goes into a small room, puts a gun to his head, and says "Thanks, mom." before shooting himself. She wakes at the sound of the gunfire.
* Sarah Connor is plagued by this trope and its [[UsefulNotes/NuclearWeapons contents]] in the movie ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''.
** Likewise, Kyle's dreams/flashbacks in the original movie.
** Given in ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' Ripley has a nightmare about a ChestBurster, the [[Creator/JamesCameron director]] has a thing for this.
* Briefly parodied in ''Film/TopSecret'': Nick's back in high school! It's the day of the big chemistry test and he hasn't studied! Then he wakes up and realizes he's actually a prisoner in an East German torture dungeon. "Thank God!"
* ''Film/VanillaSky'', [[spoiler:the whole movie IS a nightmare, but there are many scenes picturing a dream/nightmare inside a nightmare/dream]]
* Certain scenes of ''Film/{{Videodrome}}''. It's [[UnreliableNarrator hard to say]] which.
%% * ''Film/TheWolfman2010''.
* The basis of ''Film/TheEvilWithin'' is that Dennis has been having these since he was 4. He even lampshades how dreams generally lack logic, making them sound ridiculous when you try to explain them, but his special dreams, while surreal and terrifying, make perfect sense, and their narrative continues through the dreams.
* ''Film/UnderTheBed'': Paulie falls asleep in his theater group and has a nightmare. It ends with a man with black gunk on his face popping in and shouting "Wake Up!" at Paulie, causing him to [[CatapultNightmare wake up and freak out]].
* There's a horror movie from the early '60s called ''The Mask'' (no relation to ''Film/TheMask'' with Creator/JimCarrey) about a cursed Aztec death mask that prompts visions like this, eventually driving the wearer to madness and murder. The nightmare sequences drip with SurrealHorror, and are easily the high point of what is otherwise a rather unremarkable movie.
* ''Film/TheZombieApocalypseInApartmenr14F'': Raymond and Joey have a few nightmares over the course of the film about zombies. Whether it be getting caught by zombies, or discovering Red is one of them.
** There's one upsetting nightmare scene in which the protagonist sees his family shot in their home by what can only be described as [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Zombie Werewolf Nazi Goblins]]. The fact that ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' is playing on the television doesn't help. Quite possibly one of the most horrifying nightmares in all of film.
** Then there's the one where he's seen biting a deer.
* In ''Film/BadDreams'', the protagonist Cynthia, who went into a coma after barely surviving a mass suicide, is tormented by images of the dead cult leader, Harris.
* In ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', [[Comicbook/{{Batman}} Bruce]] has several nightmare sequences, the first one being the opening of the film itself, with Bruce reliving [[DeathByOriginStory his parent's murder]], and the day of their funeral, where he accidentally fell into the caves beneath the Wayne estate, disturbing the bats within. Although it's subverted with the "Knightmare", where Bruce finds himself in a wasteland that was once Gotham, as a [[LaResistance resistance fighter]] against an oppressive regime led by Comicbook/{{Superman}}. The fact that the nightmare contains things Bruce doesn't know about at this point, such as [[Comicbook/NewGods Parademons]], and the appearance of [[Comicbook/TheFlash Barry Allen]] at the end with an OminousMessageFromTheFuture, makes this clear this wasn't a dream, but a vision of a BadFuture.
* In the 1996 film ''Film/TheCableGuy'', the main character Steven has a nightmare in which Chip (Creator/JimCarrey) pounds on the door a few times but there's no answer, but later he bursts through the door and snarls, "I JUST WANT TO HANG OUT. ...NO BIG DEAL!" and chases him. This nightmare is a parody of the chase scene from ''Wolf''.
* ''Film/TheDayTheEarthCaughtFire'' plays the sequence throughout the movie. What starts with two atomic bombs being activated at the same time, ends with the Earth gradually being pulled towards the Sun.
* ''Film/DeathWish4TheCrackdown'' opens with Kersey confronting three muggers who beat and rape a girl. When Kersey kills all three, the last one he rolls over turns out to be himself. Kersey then wakes up via CatapultNightmare.
* A whimsical example in ''Film/EarthGirlsAreEasy'': In the afterglow of her night with [[MagicalGirlfriend alien paramour Mac]], Valerie slips into a DeliberatelyMonochrome dream that starts with a TV set screening clips from ''Film/EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers'' and, as she desperately changes the channel, the 1946 ''Film/{{Beauty and the Beast|1946}}'' -- the latter confronting her with her romantic dilemma: Should she go with Mac to his home world, since he's leaving as soon as his ship is fixed? She then looks outside to find that the familiar faces of her neighborhood are all aliens of various sorts, and as she runs through her house in a panic there are even more creatures and robots running amok. She tries to turn to her Earthly (and unfaithful) fiance Ted for help, only to see him start attacking pre-makeover Mac as the dream dissolves.
* There's a good chance that ''Film/{{Eraserhead}}'' is entirely made out of this trope.
* Two-thirds into ''Film/TheFall'', Alexandria accidentally falls off a shelf and bumps her head, sending her into a trippy montage merging together random fantasy sequences (including the FramingDevice story she's being told throughout the rest of the film), a personal flashback to her village being raided, and a terrifyingly uncanny StopMotion sequence of a doll being operated on (tortured?) by mysterious figures in hoods.
* In ''Film/TheFly1986'' Veronica (Creator/GeenaDavis), having found out she's pregnant by a man who is undergoing a SlowTransformation into a HalfHumanHybrid, subsequently has a nightmare in which she gives birth to a squirming maggot-like creature. The film originally was to have an epilogue that included a DreamSequence in which a human baby with butterfly wings emerges from a chrysalis as a hopeful counterpart to this, and answering the question of whether she would bring her pregnancy to term or not, but none of the ''four'' filmed versions of the sequence played well with the creators or test audiences so the film instead closes with [[spoiler: her lover's death by her hand]] and leaves the question unanswered.
* The film ''Film/TheGhostAndTheDarkness'' has a scene after the protagonist kills the first lion. The railroad construction is back on track and his wife is coming to visit with their new baby. [[CatapultNightmare And then the other lion comes running out of the grass.]]
* In ''Film/{{Gothika}}'', the main character suffers two of these.
* Michael and Laurie have these in ''Film/HalloweenII2009''.
* In ''Film/HerbieRidesAgain'', CorruptCorporateExecutive Alonzo Hawk is tormented in his dreams by evil Volkswagen Beetles after Herbie thwarts his evil schemes.
* In ''Film/HollowMan'', Linda is fast asleep in bed with the windows wide open. Suddenly, the bed covers slip off of her and Caine crawls onto her bed, takes her underwear off, and begins to rape her. And then she wakes up with the bed covers still on her.
** In a similar manner, ''Film/RosemarysBaby'', has a sequence in which Rosemary is [[spoiler:drugged and undressed by her husband and a local cult, and then raped in her sleep by the devil. She later awakens to discover that she is pregnant, but her husband goes along with her assumption that he "went ahead and did it".]]
* ''Film/TheLazarusEffect'' has Zoe's recurring nightmare of a fire when she was young.
* ''Film/LostCreek'': After meeting Maggie, [[TheProtagonist Peter]] starts having nightmares about a distorting sounding voice calling out to him.
* ''Film/MissionImpossibleFallout'' opens with Ethan having one of these. It has Ethan marrying Julia in what appears to be at a lake, when the priest is revealed to be Solomon Lane, who tells Ethan that he should have killed him. A nuclear explosion suddenly appears and vaporizes all three before he wakes up.
** There's another one later in the film, when Ethan's sleeping in the back of the team van on the way to London. This dream also features Julia and Lane, and Ethan wakes just as suddenly and silently, looking just as shaken.
** Ethan has a vivid nightmare/hallucination sequence while traumatized and sleep-deprived in [[Film/MissionImpossible the first film]] as well, this one heavily blurring the boundaries between dream and reality.
* The "Moloch Machine" sequence from the silent classic ''Film/{{Metropolis}}''. After witnessing a dreadful accident, Freder hallucinates one of the machines in the lower levels of the city is a shrine to a GodOfEvil, consuming the workers killed in keeping it running like human sacrifices.
* ''Film/{{Monkeybone}}'' has many - a drug that could be described as "Nightmare Fuel" is even a plot point.
* Liu Kang has one of these after being knocked unconscious by Nightwolf in ''Film/MortalKombatAnnihilation''.
* The heroine in ''Film/NextOfKin1982'' experiences two of these over the course of the film, both hinting at events from her childhood and the possibility of a family curse. In the first, she sees herself as a young girl wandering the deserted hallways of the Montclare retirement home while carrying a red ball. In the second, she sees a recent drowning victim [[SurrealHorror swimming towards her window and tapping at it]].
* The entire ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'' series is themed around this, as Freddy Krueger attacks his victims through nightmares. Even worse, considering how much power he has over the dreamscape, he is able to manipulate your dreams according to your fears, desires and insecurities. Makes the glove itself feel like being put to sleep in comparison, not to mention a more merciful death at that (let's just say the multitude of freakish nightmares some of the teenagers suffer increase in frequency the further the series progresses rather than describe them).
* ''Film/PeeWeesBigAdventure'' has two of these -- in the first one he sees a stop-motion dinosaur eat his beloved, missing bicycle, and in the second [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7kw0WiUB5c there's evil clowns and even a trip to Hell!]] A third scene was also filmed involving a giant monkey (which is actually Francis), but was deleted.
* Rambo has one of these in ''Film/RamboIV'', which culminates in Trautman shooting Rambo in the stomach, which was from the original planned ending for ''Film/FirstBlood''.
* ''Film/TheSecretGarden'': Mary, at one point, has a bad dream in which her mother leaves her in a jungly version of the garden, and she's a little kid.
* Another Creator/WesCraven movie, ''Film/TheSerpentAndTheRainbow'', includes several zombie-themed nightmares suffered by the protagonist.
* The dream sequence the main character in ''Film/SonOfTheMask'' has. His wife being pregnant and giving birth... only to reveal that she is pregnant with many, many, ''many'' babies, all squirming and crying with fanged mouths.
* ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'' opens with Picard finding himself inside a Borg cube and part of the collective hive mind, before he's experimented on and his eyes are almost pierced by a needle. There's a fakeout where it seems like he's woken up, but then a Borg implant bursts out of his cheek before he wakes up for real.
* ''Film/StrangeNature'': Kim has one about her son growing up into a deformed mutant with a half-frog face as a result of living in her town. In the dream, after eating, he goes into a small room, puts a gun to his head, and says "Thanks, mom." before shooting himself. She wakes at the sound of the gunfire.
* Sarah Connor is plagued by this trope and its [[UsefulNotes/NuclearWeapons contents]] in the movie ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''.
** Likewise, Kyle's dreams/flashbacks in the original movie.
** Given in ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' Ripley has a nightmare about a ChestBurster, the [[Creator/JamesCameron director]] has a thing for this.
* Briefly parodied in ''Film/TopSecret'': Nick's back in high school! It's the day of the big chemistry test and he hasn't studied! Then he wakes up and realizes he's actually a prisoner in an East German torture dungeon. "Thank God!"
* ''Film/VanillaSky'', [[spoiler:the whole movie IS a nightmare, but there are many scenes picturing a dream/nightmare inside a nightmare/dream]]
* Certain scenes of ''Film/{{Videodrome}}''. It's [[UnreliableNarrator hard to say]] which.
%% * ''Film/TheWolfman2010''.
* The basis of ''Film/TheEvilWithin'' is that Dennis has been having these since he was 4. He even lampshades how dreams generally lack logic, making them sound ridiculous when you try to explain them, but his special dreams, while surreal and terrifying, make perfect sense, and their narrative continues through the dreams.
* ''Film/UnderTheBed'': Paulie falls asleep in his theater group and has a nightmare. It ends with a man with black gunk on his face popping in and shouting "Wake Up!" at Paulie, causing him to [[CatapultNightmare wake up and freak out]].
* There's a horror movie from the early '60s called ''The Mask'' (no relation to ''Film/TheMask'' with Creator/JimCarrey) about a cursed Aztec death mask that prompts visions like this, eventually driving the wearer to madness and murder. The nightmare sequences drip with SurrealHorror, and are easily the high point of what is otherwise a rather unremarkable movie.
* ''Film/TheZombieApocalypseInApartmenr14F'': Raymond and Joey have a few nightmares over the course of the film about zombies. Whether it be getting caught by zombies, or discovering Red is one of them.
