In the future, Earth is attacked by the planet Ebon and now is in war. A group of human soldiers travel to Ebon to fight the Ebonites but their rocket is shot down. They are taken as POW and sent to a work camp. Soon they learn that the Ebonites are capable of controlling the human senses and they will be interrogated by the enemy that wants to know details of the next attack from Earth. The first to go is the mentally unstable private Arthur Dix, who was deprived of speaking by the Ebonites and returns speaking again after the interrogation. One by one, the earthlings are interrogated by the Ebonites also increasing the mistrust on each other. Soon the interrogator discloses secret information and the military suspect there is a traitor in the group. What is the secret of the Ebonites?
"Nightmare" is a tense and thought-provoking episode of "The Outer Limits" and certainly one of the best of the series. The idea of an experiment to analyze people under stress is a great theme explored in few films and in 2001 it was produced the excellent "Das Experiment", a masterpiece of the genre. "Nightmare" is certainly one of the first movies to explore this theme in a sci-fi genre in a period of great tension of the Cold War and it is worthwhile watching. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): "O Pesadelo" ("The Nightmare")
"Nightmare" is a tense and thought-provoking episode of "The Outer Limits" and certainly one of the best of the series. The idea of an experiment to analyze people under stress is a great theme explored in few films and in 2001 it was produced the excellent "Das Experiment", a masterpiece of the genre. "Nightmare" is certainly one of the first movies to explore this theme in a sci-fi genre in a period of great tension of the Cold War and it is worthwhile watching. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): "O Pesadelo" ("The Nightmare")