Nightmares generally aren’t something you chase. They’re something you are desperately trying to run away from as the terror often chases you. Screenwriter Chris McGowan invites us into the world of Laura Sanders, a high school student plagued with lifelong nightmares. Upon making a startling discovery from a photograph, Sanders’ need for answers brings her and a group of friends to the real-life setting of these dreams, chasing after the truth, even if that means chasing the evil itself. As the stakes and the body count rises, “Chasing Nightmares” begs the question, are dangerous pasts better to be left alone in just that, the past? McGowan, a 2001 Cary-Grove High School graduate and current Woodstock resident, is on the second go-round of his filmmaking career. After a seven-year stint in Los Angeles trying to “make it happen,” McGowan found himself heading back to Illinois to take up a good old nine to five in risk management. “I followed my dreams and passions initially and kind of threw in the towel,” McGowan said.