American Nightmare follows the story of Denise Huskins and partner Aaron Quinn, the victims of a home invasion in 2015 in Vallejo, California, that resulted in Huskins’ kidnapping. However, the couple was quickly accused of staging it all, with Huskins being labeled “the real Gone Girl.” Directors Bernadette Higgins and Felicity Morris (The Tinder Swindler) set out to tell Huskins’ story piece by piece, highlighting law enforcement behavior, victim blaming and trial by media.
When did you first hear about Denise’s story and decide it’d be your next project?
Bernadette Higgins It was just after The Tinder Swindler was released and we’d already decided that we wanted our next project to be together. And Raw, the company that we made Tinder Swindler with, had actually been trying to get access to Denise and Aaron for about two years. They approached us with it and asked us if we’d like to co-direct it.
When did you first hear about Denise’s story and decide it’d be your next project?
Bernadette Higgins It was just after The Tinder Swindler was released and we’d already decided that we wanted our next project to be together. And Raw, the company that we made Tinder Swindler with, had actually been trying to get access to Denise and Aaron for about two years. They approached us with it and asked us if we’d like to co-direct it.
- 5/28/2024
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
This article addresses the real life events behind American Nightmare and Unbelievable.
A young woman is assaulted by a brazen home invader. The police don’t believe the crime occurred and accuse the woman of lying for attention. Later on, the home invader strikes again, confirming that the story was true all along.
The above summary describes the real life experience of Denise Huskins as recounted in Netflix’s latest docuseries, American Nightmare. In 2015, Huskins and her boyfriend Aaron Quinn were attacked and drugged in their home by an intruder. Denise would then be kidnapped by the masked man, raped by him twice, and released back home to a world where police just couldn’t buy her version of events, true as they were.
It just so happens that the above summary also describes 2019 Netflix miniseries Unbelievable. And that’s why it needs to be added to your queue the...
A young woman is assaulted by a brazen home invader. The police don’t believe the crime occurred and accuse the woman of lying for attention. Later on, the home invader strikes again, confirming that the story was true all along.
The above summary describes the real life experience of Denise Huskins as recounted in Netflix’s latest docuseries, American Nightmare. In 2015, Huskins and her boyfriend Aaron Quinn were attacked and drugged in their home by an intruder. Denise would then be kidnapped by the masked man, raped by him twice, and released back home to a world where police just couldn’t buy her version of events, true as they were.
It just so happens that the above summary also describes 2019 Netflix miniseries Unbelievable. And that’s why it needs to be added to your queue the...
- 1/23/2024
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
How to Watch 'Gone Girl' for Free: Streaming Details Amid 'American Nightmare' Popularity on Netflix
Everyone is talking about the movie Gone Girl right now thanks to the popularity of the new Netflix true crime docu-series American Nightmare.
The new series tells the story of the “Gone Girl Case.” After a home invasion and kidnapping, a young couple’s recounting of the events is too far-fetched for the police to believe.
Denise Huskins was kidnapped from her home in March 2015, just months after the movie Gone Girl was in theaters. When her captor released her just days later, police believed that the kidnapping was a hoax that she staged, comparing it to the story of Gone Girl.
Rosamund Pike and Ben Affleck starred in the movie, which received four Oscar nominations. So, how can you watch it on streaming?
Keep reading to find out more…
Right now, the only way to stream the movie for free is if you’re a DirecTV subscriber. It’s...
The new series tells the story of the “Gone Girl Case.” After a home invasion and kidnapping, a young couple’s recounting of the events is too far-fetched for the police to believe.
Denise Huskins was kidnapped from her home in March 2015, just months after the movie Gone Girl was in theaters. When her captor released her just days later, police believed that the kidnapping was a hoax that she staged, comparing it to the story of Gone Girl.
Rosamund Pike and Ben Affleck starred in the movie, which received four Oscar nominations. So, how can you watch it on streaming?
Keep reading to find out more…
Right now, the only way to stream the movie for free is if you’re a DirecTV subscriber. It’s...
- 1/22/2024
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
Stop us if you’ve heard this before, but there’s a true crime docuseries on Netflix that has tongues wagging. The appetite for such endeavors appears bottomless; it seems we really enjoy depraved and aberrant behavior so long as we can hit pause and take a bathroom break every now and then. But sometimes, a series will sneak through that offers more than titillation, cheap thrills, and hyperventilating aesthetics. And so, American Nightmare, a swift, concise piece of work that even mixes in a dash of investigative reporting verve.
- 1/20/2024
- by Chris Vognar
- Rollingstone.com
Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn know you have questions about what actually happened to them in 2015. They do, too.
“I don’t want to disappoint people, but the truth is, we don’t have all the answers,” Huskins tells Tudum. “We’re never going to get the answers. We’ve had a long road of trying to accept that.”
That search for answers is the subject of American Nightmare, the new doc series from The Tinder Swindlerfilmmakers Felicity Morris and Bernadette Higgins. The three-part series is an unflinching journey through Huskins’ and Quinn’s harrowing experience, beginning on March 23, 2015, when the pair were awakened in the middle of the night by a home invader. Quinn called the police and explained what happened, saying the intruder had tied them up, drugged them, and taken Huskins for ransom. Investigators, including Detective Mat Mustard with the Vallejo police department and FBI case agent David Sesma,...
“I don’t want to disappoint people, but the truth is, we don’t have all the answers,” Huskins tells Tudum. “We’re never going to get the answers. We’ve had a long road of trying to accept that.”
That search for answers is the subject of American Nightmare, the new doc series from The Tinder Swindlerfilmmakers Felicity Morris and Bernadette Higgins. The three-part series is an unflinching journey through Huskins’ and Quinn’s harrowing experience, beginning on March 23, 2015, when the pair were awakened in the middle of the night by a home invader. Quinn called the police and explained what happened, saying the intruder had tied them up, drugged them, and taken Huskins for ransom. Investigators, including Detective Mat Mustard with the Vallejo police department and FBI case agent David Sesma,...
- 1/18/2024
- by Amanda Richards
- Tudum - Netflix
When the worst happens, those at the center of the story hope for justice — or, at the very least, to be believed. Unfortunately, the vast, knotty criminal justice system doesn’t always prove so reliable. On March 23, 2015, Denise Huskins and her boyfriend, Aaron Quinn, were woken in the dead of night by a home invader. Huskins was kidnapped, and what transpired next in the terrifying tale is the subject of American Nightmare, the new docuseries from The Tinder Swindler filmmakers Felicity Morris and Bernadette Higgins.
“A lot of crime stories are very linear and obvious from the start. What was really intriguing about this story was the fact that every time you think you know what’s happened, there’s another twist, Higgins told Netflix. “Everyone thinks they know the ending from the start. In this story, few people would’ve ever predicted that the truth was indeed the truth.
“A lot of crime stories are very linear and obvious from the start. What was really intriguing about this story was the fact that every time you think you know what’s happened, there’s another twist, Higgins told Netflix. “Everyone thinks they know the ending from the start. In this story, few people would’ve ever predicted that the truth was indeed the truth.
- 1/18/2024
- by Paul Schrodt
- Tudum - Netflix
Spoiler alert: This story contains spoilers from “American Nightmare,” the three-part docuseries now streaming on Netflix.
“American Nightmare” may be difficult to watch at night. Netflix’s latest docuseries, from the filmmakers behind “The Tinder Swindler,” Felicity Morris and Bernadette Higgins, tells the story of a traumatic home invasion, abduction and the unreal events that unfolded from there.
In March 2015, Denise Huskins was abducted by a home invader from an apartment in Vallejo, Calif., and her boyfriend, Aaron Quinn, was drugged with Nyquil at the same time, so he wasn’t able to report her kidnapping right away. As shown in the docuseries, the Vallejo police first viewed Quinn as the prime suspect after hours of questioning and attempting to get him to confess. Then Huskins showed up at her father’s house in Huntington Beach, hours south of Vallejo, after being missing for two days. She was quickly labeled...
“American Nightmare” may be difficult to watch at night. Netflix’s latest docuseries, from the filmmakers behind “The Tinder Swindler,” Felicity Morris and Bernadette Higgins, tells the story of a traumatic home invasion, abduction and the unreal events that unfolded from there.
In March 2015, Denise Huskins was abducted by a home invader from an apartment in Vallejo, Calif., and her boyfriend, Aaron Quinn, was drugged with Nyquil at the same time, so he wasn’t able to report her kidnapping right away. As shown in the docuseries, the Vallejo police first viewed Quinn as the prime suspect after hours of questioning and attempting to get him to confess. Then Huskins showed up at her father’s house in Huntington Beach, hours south of Vallejo, after being missing for two days. She was quickly labeled...
- 1/18/2024
- by Emily Longeretta
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix's 2024 documentary campaign gets off to a fast start this week with the premiere of American Nightmare, a three-part series about the terrifying abduction of Denise Huskins in March 2015. Directed and produced by the duo behind The Tinder Swindler, Bernadette Higgins and Felicity Morris, American Nightmare retraces the crime itself, with Huskins and boyfriend (and now-husband) Aaron Quinn recalling their harrowing experience in vivid detail, and dives into the aftermath, when the young couple was demonized by law enforcement and a media apparatus all too eager to dismiss their story as a hoax.
- 1/17/2024
- by Claire Spellberg Lustig
- Primetimer
Aaron Quinn and Denise Huskins may not be household names, but what happened to them was made ubiquitous by a widely-known association: “Gone Girl.”
The California couple made headlines in 2015, just one year after David Fincher’s adaptation of the popular Gillian Flynn novel. Huskins was kidnapped, her then-boyfriend telling the police a shocking story, and after 48 hours, she came home. Their ordeal was treated like a “real-life ‘Gone Girl'” by the media — as well as local and federal officers — and now retold in the Netflix docuseries “American Nightmare,” helmed by Bernadette Higgins and Felicity Morris.
When Quinn and Huskins’ story reached the duo behind “The Tinder Swindler,” it was once again via “Gone Girl”-association. Higgins told IndieWire she was struck by all the twists and turns in their story (which doesn’t end after Huskins came home), and the “sheer audacity” of law enforcement in the situation.
The California couple made headlines in 2015, just one year after David Fincher’s adaptation of the popular Gillian Flynn novel. Huskins was kidnapped, her then-boyfriend telling the police a shocking story, and after 48 hours, she came home. Their ordeal was treated like a “real-life ‘Gone Girl'” by the media — as well as local and federal officers — and now retold in the Netflix docuseries “American Nightmare,” helmed by Bernadette Higgins and Felicity Morris.
When Quinn and Huskins’ story reached the duo behind “The Tinder Swindler,” it was once again via “Gone Girl”-association. Higgins told IndieWire she was struck by all the twists and turns in their story (which doesn’t end after Huskins came home), and the “sheer audacity” of law enforcement in the situation.
- 1/17/2024
- by Proma Khosla
- Indiewire
Netflix kicks off the new year with a three-part crime documentary series titled American Nightmare, which revolves around the kidnapping of Denise Huskins, who was abducted from her house in Vallejo, California. The entire suspicion fell on her current boyfriend, Aaron Quinn. However, the local detective later attached a Gone Girl theory to the case and put the entire blame on the kidnapped victim, calling her a pathological liar and the true perpetrator of the crime. Many outlandish theories and speculations emerged from this kidnapping incident. But when the truth was revealed, it came out as a tight slap in the face to the flawed police department of Vallejo.
Spoilers Ahead
How Did The Kidnappers Took Away Denise Huskins?
A twenty-nine-year-old physiotherapist, Denise Huskins, was kidnapped from her boyfriend’s house. On the night of March 23, 2015, Aaron and Denise were sleeping peacefully in their bed when a group of men...
Spoilers Ahead
How Did The Kidnappers Took Away Denise Huskins?
A twenty-nine-year-old physiotherapist, Denise Huskins, was kidnapped from her boyfriend’s house. On the night of March 23, 2015, Aaron and Denise were sleeping peacefully in their bed when a group of men...
- 1/17/2024
- by Poulami Nanda
- Film Fugitives
This article discusses the real life events behind American Nightmare and will therefore “spoil” the docuseries.
The events that unfold in Netflix true crime docuseries American Nightmare are hard to believe. I know that because I didn’t believe them. At least not at first.
On March 23, 2015, Aaron Quinn called 9-1-1 and reported that his girlfriend Denise Huskins had been kidnapped from their California home. According to an extremely groggy-sounding Quinn, a masked man wearing a wetsuit had broken in, tased them, injected them both with a sedative, and then taken off with a tied-up Denise. What was already a strange case only got stranger when Denise returned to her parents’ home a few days later, seemingly no worse for wear.
The police held a press conference in which they accused Quinn and Huskins of making the whole thing up and wasting precious law enforcement time and resources on a scam.
The events that unfold in Netflix true crime docuseries American Nightmare are hard to believe. I know that because I didn’t believe them. At least not at first.
On March 23, 2015, Aaron Quinn called 9-1-1 and reported that his girlfriend Denise Huskins had been kidnapped from their California home. According to an extremely groggy-sounding Quinn, a masked man wearing a wetsuit had broken in, tased them, injected them both with a sedative, and then taken off with a tied-up Denise. What was already a strange case only got stranger when Denise returned to her parents’ home a few days later, seemingly no worse for wear.
The police held a press conference in which they accused Quinn and Huskins of making the whole thing up and wasting precious law enforcement time and resources on a scam.
- 1/17/2024
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Looking for your next binge-watch, or just need to fill an hour? Welcome to Your Weekly Watch List, our curated collection of the best shows on television. Here's what to watch from Sunday, January 14 through Saturday, January 20.
Detectives are everywhere to be found on television this week, which sees the premiere of three (!) very different murder mysteries. While Jodie Foster takes over as no-nonsense police chief Liz Danvers in True Detective: Night Country, Hulu's Death and Other Details sets sail aboard a luxury ocean liner, and Clive Owen expands the story of Monsieur Spade on AMC. And if it's real-life horrors you're after, Netflix offers up American Nightmare, a stranger-than-fiction tale about the 2015 kidnapping of Denise Huskins and the ensuing media frenzy.
Sunday, 9:00 Pm Et on HBO
*Our must-watch pick of the week...
Detectives are everywhere to be found on television this week, which sees the premiere of three (!) very different murder mysteries. While Jodie Foster takes over as no-nonsense police chief Liz Danvers in True Detective: Night Country, Hulu's Death and Other Details sets sail aboard a luxury ocean liner, and Clive Owen expands the story of Monsieur Spade on AMC. And if it's real-life horrors you're after, Netflix offers up American Nightmare, a stranger-than-fiction tale about the 2015 kidnapping of Denise Huskins and the ensuing media frenzy.
Sunday, 9:00 Pm Et on HBO
*Our must-watch pick of the week...
- 1/14/2024
- by Claire Spellberg Lustig
- Primetimer
Netflix’s three-part documentary series American Nightmare examines the 2015 case of Denise Huskins and her boyfriend Aaron Quinn. The trailer hits the key elements of the story and teases a deeper dive into the subsequent rush to wrap the case up in a tidy bow.
The Tinder Swindler‘s filmmakers Felicity Morris and Bernadette Higgins directed the docuseries and served as producers. Rebecca North and Fiona Stourton executive produced.
“After a home invasion and abduction, a young couple’s recounting of the events is too far-fetched for the police to believe. Why did the victims seem so calm? Was it all a hoax?,” reads Netflix’s synopsis. “From the filmmakers behind The Tinder Swindler, this three-part docuseries unravels the consequences of our cultural rush to judgment and the damage done when law enforcement decides the truth can’t possibly be true.”
The docuseries will incorporate real interrogation footage along with...
The Tinder Swindler‘s filmmakers Felicity Morris and Bernadette Higgins directed the docuseries and served as producers. Rebecca North and Fiona Stourton executive produced.
“After a home invasion and abduction, a young couple’s recounting of the events is too far-fetched for the police to believe. Why did the victims seem so calm? Was it all a hoax?,” reads Netflix’s synopsis. “From the filmmakers behind The Tinder Swindler, this three-part docuseries unravels the consequences of our cultural rush to judgment and the damage done when law enforcement decides the truth can’t possibly be true.”
The docuseries will incorporate real interrogation footage along with...
- 1/3/2024
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
A home invasion and abduction gets stranger and stranger in the trailer for Netflix’s upcoming docuseries, American Nightmare. The three-part film, which premieres Jan. 17, reexamines the unusual 2015 disappearance of Denise Huskins and the testimony of her boyfriend, Aaron Quinn, which police doubted at the time.
“My girlfriend, Denise, got kidnapped last night,” Quinn tells a 911 operator at the beginning of the series’ trailer.
“And you didn’t call last night when this occurred?” the receptionist says.
“I was tied up.”
The preview shows police questioning Quinn, who describes a...
“My girlfriend, Denise, got kidnapped last night,” Quinn tells a 911 operator at the beginning of the series’ trailer.
“And you didn’t call last night when this occurred?” the receptionist says.
“I was tied up.”
The preview shows police questioning Quinn, who describes a...
- 1/3/2024
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
"I've never heard of a case where the kidnappers drop their victim on the front door of their house." Netflix has revealed an official trailer for another chilling true crime doc mini-series titled American Nightmare, arriving to watch later in January. Continuing the trend of featuring frightening stories from America, this doc examines the real life case of Denise Huskins and an vent in March of 2015. After a home invasion and abduction, a young couple's recounting of the events is too far fetched for the police to believe. Why did the victims seem so calm? Was it all a hoax? From the filmmakers behind The Tinder Swindler, this three-part doc unravels the consequences of our cultural rush to judgment, and the (irreversible) damage done when law enforcement decides the truth can't possibly be true. Which is extra disquieting to think about... Netflix reminds: "The story of Huskins' disappearance invited national media scrutiny,...
- 1/3/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Lifetime has given the green light to three documentaries for its 2020 programming slate. They are From Darkness To Light, from three-time Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman, Emmy winner Leah Remini and A+E Originals; Smart Justice: The Jayme Closs Case hosted by Elizabeth Smart, and documentary film series Hopelessly In Love, from eOne and Creature Films.
Raisman and Remini have joined forces on From Darkness To Light, a documentary event in which Raisman helps victims of sexual assault find their voice in order to start healing and turn from victim to survivor. It was on January 20, 2018, that Raisman stared down her abuser, Larry Nasser, in a Michigan courtroom, rallying other victims to step forward and demand justice and accountability. Nasser is currently serving a 60-year federal prison sentence following his conviction on multiple charges of sexual assault.
Produced by A+E Originals and Remini’s No Seriously Productions, From Darkness...
Raisman and Remini have joined forces on From Darkness To Light, a documentary event in which Raisman helps victims of sexual assault find their voice in order to start healing and turn from victim to survivor. It was on January 20, 2018, that Raisman stared down her abuser, Larry Nasser, in a Michigan courtroom, rallying other victims to step forward and demand justice and accountability. Nasser is currently serving a 60-year federal prison sentence following his conviction on multiple charges of sexual assault.
Produced by A+E Originals and Remini’s No Seriously Productions, From Darkness...
- 3/27/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
It's been three years since Denise Huskins was abducted from her home in Vallejo, CA, but this so-called "Gone Girl" kidnapping case is getting new attention on account of her and her fiancé Aaron Quinn's recent lawsuit against the city and its police department. Denise and Aaron accused the police of defamation and said they suffered emotional distress after the cops called the case a hoax. And earlier this month, the city settled the suit — without admitting wrongdoing — and awarded the couple $2.5 million. Here's everything to know about Denise and Aaron's years-long ordeal In the early morning hours of March 23, 2015, Aaron was drugged and Denise was kidnapped by at least one home intruder, if not more. Denise was held for ransom; but then, miraculously, she was released 48 hours later in Huntington Beach, CA. She says, however, she was bound, drugged, and raped twice during that timeframe. In a recent interview with ABC News,...
- 3/23/2018
- by Dan Clarendon
- In Touch Weekly
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