Writer/director James DeMonaco discusses his top ten films that evoke the surreal, hallucinatory feel of dreams/nightmares, while not actually depicting dream/or nightmares with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

A History Of Violence (2005)

The Home (2025)

52 Pick-Up (1986)

The Purge (2013)

The Purge: Anarchy (2014)

The Purge: Election Year (2016)

Staten Island (2009)

This Is The Night (2021)

Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)

3 Women (1977)

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)

Jack (1996)

The Godfather (1972)

The Godfather Part II (1974)

The Godfather Part III (1990)

Dementia 13 (1963)

Star Wars (1977)

THX 1138 (1972)

Blood Simple (1984)

Megalopolis (2024)

Mandy (2018)

Beyond The Black Rainbow (2010)

Nightmare Alley (2021)

Blue Velvet (1986)

Mulholland Drive (2001)

The Accused (1988)

The Swimmer (1968)

Dune (1984)

Dune (2021)

Jodorowsky’s Dune (2014)

Crash (2005)

*Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai (2000)

Paterson (2016)

Fellini’s Roma (1972)

Amarcord (1973)

La Strada (1954)

Nights of Cabiria (1957)

8 ½ (1963)

Dirty Harry (1971)

Gremlins (1984)

Irreversible (2002)

Antichrist (2009)

Play It As It Lays (1972)

Nashville (1975)

Boom! (1968)

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)

Punch Drunk Love (2002)

The Long Goodbye (1973)

Phantom Thread (2017)

One Battle After Another (2025)

Happy Gilmore (1995)

Happy Gilmore 2 (2025)

March of the Wooden Soldiers a.k.a. Babes in Toyland (1934)

Beetlejuice (1988)

Monkey Trouble (1994)

Prizzi’s Honor (1985)

Vertigo (1958)

Invaders From Mars (1953)

The Woman in the Window (1944)

Inception (2010)

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

Dreamscape (1984)

What Dreams May Come (1998)

The Truman Show (1998)

Minority Report (2002)

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