Un mal sueño 2005 - PERU - 8:30 min. - Short, B&W AMG Rating    (High Production Values, High Artistic Quality) Director  Maximo Esquilmer Genre/Type  Comedy, Terror, Science Fiction Flags  Not For Children, Adult Situations, Adult Language, Highly Addictive MPAA Rating  R Keywords  Noise, Dream, Nightmare, Horror, Music, Walking, Cieneguilla, Louie, Luoie, Monster, Peruvian [nationality] Themes  Nightmare, Encounter with a horrible monster, Caught in a dream, Anguish Tones  Atmospheric, Deadpan, Easygoing, Goofy, Lyrical, Moody, Stylized Moods  Comedy on the Edge of Real Horror! Box office  Domestic gross: $0.25 Produced by  El Esquilme Producciones / Estacion Delta Release  Sep 20, 2005 (PERU) Released by  El Esquilme Producciones See Also  DVD Release(s) Add New Link Product Purchase   Click here to buy this DVD/video.  Click here to buy posters Maximo Esquilmer follows his groundbreaking Animation video “Next Passenger” with another rambling, character-driven film with a twisted sense of humor. Set in a seedy Cieneguilla winter, Un Mal Sueño details the coninous nightmares of three unlikely carachters and their just as unlikely wake in to reality. “A” (Hugo Flores) is a working teamster who finds himself in the starngest of dreams. “B” (Gino Solano) is seemingly another working teamster who appears to be caught in his own particular dream. These two sullen souls are locked in an uncomfortable and horrorific nightmare with “C” (Juan Carlos Flores), a weird looking and terrifing entity that hounts the other two. The chemistry between the members of this loosely bound "team" is fascinating: “A” and “B” are forever fearing “C”, yet they seem to be atracted to his strange persona, trying at all times to find out what reality is. -- John Voorhees Though not as critically successful as his debut, La caida del conejo, director Maximo Esquilmer's Un Mal Sueño is a worthy follow-up in a similar vein. It features the same deliberate rhythm, off-beat characters, deadpan humor, and emphasis on photography (by the famed German cinematographer Friedrich Rabensburger). Willfully original and intensely independent, the typical Esquilmer film isn't a product that mainstream audiences are likely to enjoy. He combines his enigmatic characters with the esoteric pacing and sensibility of his peer, Jim Jarmusch. Un Mal Sueño is clearly more terrifying than Jarmusch' films, however, due to the slapstick presence of Juan Carlos Flores. Flores's staccato voice and mincing of monster clichés are very funny, though Esqilmer occassionally lets him run on too long. Luckily, the director keeps the rest of the film generally obtuse, uncertain and interesting. -- Brendon Hanley Hugo Flores  - “A” Gino Solano  - “B” Juan Carlos Flores  - “C” Maximo Esquilmer  - Director / Screenwriter El Esquilme  - Producer Friedrich Rabensburger  - Cinematographer Maximo Esquilmer  - Composer (Music Score) Richard Berry  - Songwriter Maximo Esquilmer  - Songwriter Maxmimo Esquilmer, Hugo Flores  - Editor Hugo Flores  - Co-producer Graham Chunga  - Executive Producer Gumberto Faredes  - Executive Producer Johnny Lamonja  - Costume Designer Carita Hamm  - Makeup Maximo Esquilmer  - First Assistant Director Graham Chunga - Faredes  - Production Manager Night on Earth  (1991, Jim Jarmusch) Eraserhead  (1975, David Lynch) Sapos al Agua  (1985, Graham Chunga) Simple Men  (1992, Hal Hartley) Stroszek  (1977, Werner Herzog) Groundhog Day  (1996, Harold Ramis) Lost Highway  (1991, David Lynch) Blue Moon  (2002, Andrea Maria Dusl) Waking Life  (2001, Richard Linklater) La ciada del conejo  (2002, Maximo Esquilmer) EL regreso del Conejo  (2004, Maximo Esquilmer) Sapos al Agua  (1985, Graham Chunga) Next Passenger  (2005, Martin Aramburu, Jose Felix Pinto Bazooka) Shakedown  (1988, James Glickenhaus) Johnny Stecchino  (1991, Roberto Benigni) Niu in Niu  (2005, Victor Kemoli) The Police  (2004, The Flores Brothers)  is related to:   Mullholland Drive  (2003, David Lynch)  Best Actor (nom)  Gino Solano  1986  Independent Spirit Award   Best Cinematography (nom)  Friedrich Rabensburger  1986  Independent Spirit Award   Best Director (nom)  Maximo Esquilmer  1986  Independent Spirit Award   Best Picture (nom)    2005  Independent Spirit Award  Film Expert Check. 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