2023 · horror · thriller · mystery
Sleep
Directed by Jason Yu1h 34m2023
A pregnant wife who becomes worried about her husband’s sleeping habits. What starts out as some light sleep-talking soon escalates to unexpectedly grotesque behaviour. They consult a sleep clinic without success and as his nightmarish behaviour escalates, they desperately seek help from a shaman.
Our read: Sleep (2023) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · thriller · mystery entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
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How Sleep feels to watch.
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“You want a Korean black comedy horror about a couple's unraveling from nightmarish sleepwalking.”
Skip it tonight — You are sensitive to animal harm or tense domestic psychological horror.
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