Directed by:
Phillip GuzmanScreenplay:
Jeffrey ReddickCinematography:
Dominique MartinezComposer:
Marc VanocurCast:
Jocelin Donahue, Jesse Bradford, Lori Petty, Brea Grant, Jesse Borrego, James Eckhouse, Mona Lee Fultz, Billy Blair, Jeffrey Reddick, Derek Lee Nixon (more)Plots(1)
Kate Bowman is a straight-laced, by-the-books social worker who finds herself plunged into a world of supernatural terror while investigating a series of deaths where people died in their sleep. The victims all reported being terrorized by a dark entity that paralyzed and tormented them, before eventually killing them. Kate is joined in this quest by Evan an artist who is slow to believe that something supernatural is occurring. Feeding Evan's doubt is Dr. Sykes an expert in sleep disorders. She's convinced the victims all suffered a common but frightening sleep ailment called sleep paralysis. Dr. Sykes assures Kate and Evan that while sleep paralysis is scary, it's not dangerous. But soon, Kate is approached by Hassan Davies an eccentric doctor who was discredited for his unorthodox practices and beliefs. Hassan informs Kate that the evil entity haunting people's nightmares is very real. Even worse, now that Kate has started studying it, she has opened herself up to the dark entity. Belief is the doorway that lets it find its victims. (FilmRise)
(more)Cast
Jocelin Donahue
USA
Best movies:
Doctor Sleep (2019)
Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)
The Last Stop in Yuma County (2023)
Jesse Bradford
USA
Best movies:
Falling in Love (1984)
Presumed Innocent (1990)
King of the Hill (1993)
Lori Petty
USA
Best movies:
A League of Their Own (1992)
Point Break (1991)
Prison Break: The Final Break (2009) (TV movie)
Brea Grant
USA
Best movies:
Middle of Nowhere (2008)
The Baytown Outlaws (2012)
Pitch Perfect 2 (2015)
Jesse Borrego
USA
Best movies:
Con Air (1997)
Bound by Honor (1993)
Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico (2003)
James Eckhouse
USA
Best movies:
Trading Places (1983)
84 Charing Cross Road (1987)
Big (1988)
Mona Lee Fultz
Best movies:
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
Boyhood (2014)
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022)
Billy Blair
USA
Best movies:
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
The Last Stand (2013)
Machete (2010)
Jeffrey Reddick
USA
Best movies:
Contracted: Phase II (2015)
Day of the Dead (2008)
Dead Awake (2016)
Derek Lee Nixon
Best movies:
Butcher Boys (2012)
Dead Awake (2016)
The Jerk Theory (2009)
Natalie Jones
USA
Best movies:
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Dead Awake (2016)
2:22 (2008)
Kurt Wehner
Best movies:
Dead Awake (2016)