New Jersey Stage Issue 62 | Page 92

Impossible Monsters SHARE BUTTON “I’ve been fascinated by dreams and nightmares for a long time,” explained filmmaker Nathan Ca- tucci. “And how they relate to our perception of reality.” Catucci’s debut film, Impossible Monsters, will be screened at the New Jersey Film Festival in New Brunswick on Saturday, September 14th. His film is a psychological thriller in which an ambitious and well- liked psychology professor (Dr. NJ STAGE - ISSUE 62 by Gary Wien Rich Freeman played by Tony Award winner Santino Fontana), pursues a sleep study with a focus on nightmares, dreams, and sleep paralysis - the success of which would result in a lucrative grant for the university. As the line between dreams and reality blur, a member of the study is murdered, and ev- erything begins to unravel, leav- ing Dr. Freeman fighting to make things right. INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 92