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Nightcrawler (film)
Nightcrawler (2014) is Dan Gilroy's directorial debut thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal as Lou Bloom, a Los Angeles stringer filming night crime scenes for TV news; Oscar-nominated screenplay, 95% Rotten Tomatoes.
Nightdragon
NightDragon is a San Francisco venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Dave DeWalt and Ken Gonzalez, investing in growth-stage cybersecurity, safety, and privacy companies.
Nightfall (Asimov novelette and novel)
Nightfall: Isaac Asimov's 1941 Astounding novelette about a six-sun planet plunged into darkness and madness every 2,049 years, voted best pre-1965 SF story; expanded into a 1990 Robert Silverberg novel set on Kalgash.
Nightfall (missile)
Nightfall, or Project Nightfall, is a British program announced in 2026 to rapidly develop a tactical ballistic missile for Ukraine, with over 500 km range.
Nightflyers
Nightflyers is a 1980 science fiction horror novella by George R. R. Martin, part of his Thousand Worlds future history, adapted as a 1987 film and a 2018 Syfy series.
Nightflyers (1987 film)
Nightflyers is a 1987 American science-fiction horror film directed by Robert Collector, based on the novella by George R. R. Martin, about a space expedition stalked by a malevolent presence.
Nightflyers (TV series)
Nightflyers is a 10-episode Syfy/Netflix sci-fi horror series (2018) adapted from George R.R. Martin's 1980 novella, set in 2093 aboard the starship Nightflyer; canceled after one season.
Nighthawk (Marvel Comics)
Nighthawk (Kyle Richmond) is a Marvel Comics superhero created by Roy Thomas and Sal Buscema, debuting in Avengers #69 (1969) as a Squadron Sinister villain loosely based on Batman who reformed and joined the Defenders.
Nighthawks (1981 film)
Nighthawks (1981) is a Bruce Malmuth action thriller for Universal, starring Sylvester Stallone as NYPD decoy cop Deke DaSilva hunting terrorist Wulfgar (Rutger Hauer), with the Roosevelt Island Tramway hijack climax; released April 10, 1981, 99 minutes, R.
Nighthawks (Hopper)
Nighthawks (1942), Edward Hopper's iconic oil painting of four figures in a fluorescent-lit all-night diner on a Greenwich Avenue corner, held at the Art Institute of Chicago since 1942.
Nightingale Corona
Nightingale Corona is a 471-km-wide corona, a ring-shaped volcano-tectonic structure, on Venus at 63.6N, 129.5E, IAU-named in 1985 for nurse Florence Nightingale and reclassified from a crater.
Nightingale Lane
Nightingale Lane names RAYE's 2026 heartbreak ballad from This Music May Contain Hope, a William Sharp poem set by three composers, a 2002 Pat Kilbride album, and streets in London and Bushey, Hertfordshire.
Nightjar
Nightjar: nocturnal, insectivorous bird of the family Caprimulgidae (goatsuckers, nighthawks), about 98 species in 20-22 genera, cryptic plumage, large gape, ground-nesting; Old World lineages arose from a single Neotropical expansion.
Nightlife
Nightlife is urban after-dark social and commercial activity in bars, clubs, music venues, and restaurants. Also called the night-time economy, it grew with gas lighting, became a regeneration policy, and now faces post-COVID contraction.
Nightlife (Pet Shop Boys album)
Nightlife is Pet Shop Boys' seventh studio album, released 11 October 1999 on Parlophone. Twelve night-themed songs produced by Craig Armstrong, Rollo, David Morales, and the duo, including New York City Boy and a Kylie Minogue duet; UK chart peak 7.
Nightlight
A nightlight is a small, low-intensity light kept on during the night to comfort children afraid of the dark and to light stairs, hallways, and routes to the bathroom.
Nightmarchers
Nightmarchers (huakaʻi pō, pō kāne) are spirits of ancient Hawaiian warriors who march at night with torches, drums, and conch shells along sacred trails; meeting them means death unless an ancestor among them spares you.
Nightmare
Nightmare: an extended, extremely dysphoric dream, usually in REM sleep; nightmare disorder affects 3.5-8.3% of adults. Treated with imagery rehearsal therapy and prazosin.
Nightmare (Avenged Sevenfold album)
Nightmare (2010) is Avenged Sevenfold's fifth studio album and first without drummer The Rev, who died in 2009; Mike Portnoy played his written drum parts, and it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
Nightmare (group)
Nightmare (ナイトメア) is a Japanese visual kei rock band formed in Sendai in 2000 by guitarists Sakito and Hitsugi, best known for the DEATH NOTE anime theme 'the WORLD'.
Nightmare (Marvel Comics)
Nightmare is a Marvel Comics demon lord, created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, who debuted in Strange Tales #110 (July 1963) as Doctor Strange's first villain; he rules the Nightmare World in the Dream Dimension and feeds on sleeping humans' psychic energy.
Nightmare Alley (1947 film)
Nightmare Alley (1947) is a Twentieth Century-Fox film noir directed by Edmund Goulding, starring Tyrone Power as carnival hustler Stanton Carlisle, adapted from William Lindsay Gresham's 1946 novel and later remade by Guillermo del Toro in 2021.
Nightmare Alley (2021 film)
Nightmare Alley (2021) is Guillermo del Toro's noir psychological thriller, co-written with Kim Morgan from William Lindsay Gresham's 1946 novel, starring Bradley Cooper as carnival mentalist-turned-conman Stanton Carlisle; second adaptation after the 1947 film, Best Picture nominee, 80% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Nightmare Alley (novel)
Nightmare Alley, William Lindsay Gresham's 1946 debut novel (Rinehart), follows carnival hustler Stanton Carlisle from mentalist to fraudulent spiritualist to geek, with 22 tarot-named chapters; adapted into films in 1947 and 2021.
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" is a 1961 Richard Matheson short story about an airline passenger who alone sees a gremlin sabotaging the plane, famously adapted for The Twilight Zone in 1963.
Nightmare disorder
Nightmare disorder, a DSM-5 and ICSD-3 REM sleep parasomnia, involves recurrent distressing nightmares causing impairment. Treated with imagery rehearsal therapy and prazosin; often drug-induced or PTSD-associated.
Nightmares in the Trenches
Nightmares in the Trenches, Lil Durk & Only the Family's sixth OTF compilation album, released November 17, 2023 on Alamo Records; 11 tracks, 30 minutes, led by the Lil Wayne-homage single "Smurk Carter."
Nights in Rodanthe
Nights in Rodanthe is a 2008 American romantic drama directed by George C. Wolfe, adapted from Nicholas Sparks' novel and starring Richard Gere and Diane Lane.
Nights in White Satin
Nights in White Satin is a 1967 Moody Blues song by Justin Hayward, released on Days of Future Passed as "The Night"; its Mellotron strings and 1972 rerelease at Billboard No. 2 made it the band's signature symphonic rock hit.
Nights into Dreams
Nights into Dreams (NiGHTS into dreams...) is a 1996 Sonic Team flight game for Sega Saturn, directed by Naoto Ohshima, produced by Yuji Naka, with score-attack 2D-controls-in-3D gameplay, bundled 3D Control Pad, Christmas NiGHTS disc, and 2012 HD remaster.