Alice first refuses to accept any association to satanic forces, but the more time she spends with Daniel Morgan (Lucas Bond), the less sense reality makes.I mean, yeah – no spoilers. A shadowy INSIDIOUS-like Boogeyman tricked him to do so, invisibly unbeknownst to Alice. Switch to the light mode that's kinder on your eyes at day time.Switch to the dark mode that's kinder on your eyes at night time.Switch to the light mode that's kinder on your eyes at day time.Switch to the dark mode that's kinder on your eyes at night time.Starring Maggie Q, Sylvester McCoy, Kristen Bush, Sam Troughton, Vincent Andriano, Honor Kneafsey, Lucas BonSleep paralysis is an understatedly traumatic, very real medical phenomenon that plagues far more resting bodies than you might expect. Translation? Each nightmare preys upon their personal deep-seeded fears and anxieties, yet somehow occurs at the exact same time. Casting is tight where it matters – Sylvester McCoy the wackadoo genre stereotype by way of a rambling old retiree who lives with the memory of the Night Hag’s stalk – just tethered to the film’s larger, convoluted ideas.Matt is an NYC internet scribe who spends his post-work hours geeking over cinema instead of sleeping like a normal human.
Dr. Alice Arnolds (Maggie Q) is a pragmatic sleep doctor who’s seemingly overcome her traumatic past. Movies like Rodney Ascher’s Maggie Q stars as sleep pattern specialist Alice Arnolds. Honor Kneafsey a tiger-onesied sister who is damn menacing when walking around with sharp objects while in a hypnotic daze – unpredictable in action.
Primo horror fodder, right?
Even when Alice begins to flashback to her own petrifying past, the link between her childhood trauma and her new family of patients feels credibly explicated by the end, neither false nor forced, and stays tightly bonded despite a rather ho-hum, stock-standard third act climax. A movie that is 84 minutes long with only about 20 minutes of actual content. In this sense, it's Conejo who's the true "tax … There’s an unfortunate production preconception that pops into your head upon hearing the word “indie,” but Refocusing on the Night Hag herself, method and backstory seem to service circumstance more than sleep paralysis. Deathly debilitating!A new patient, Daniel Morgan (Lucas Bond), is admitted to Dr. Arnolds’ sleep facility with quite the curious case. Dedicated to the cause 30 years later, now a mother to Niamh (Grace Schneider) and wife to Tom (Will Kemp), the good doc has devoted her profession to helping others with debilitating sleep disorders. Victimized by intensely violent fits of sleep paralysis – in which the young boy is helplessly held down in his own bed by a petrifying supernatural force – these stints are made all the more alarming by the trend that, each time it happens, Daniel’s mother Sarah (Kristen Bush), father Charlie (Sam Troughton) and little sister Emily (Honor Kneafsey) all encounter their own individual somnambulant night terrors…at the same damn time.
Maggie Q given a second chance by projecting her own desire to save on Daniel’s family. And it’s precisely this aspect that notches the flick a slight cut above the rest. Ever since her brother passed at a young age due to an accidental sleepwalking mishap, Alice likens unconscious terrors to scientific facts. And not to spoil much more, it’s all done by the devious, deliberate designs of one deleterious demon known as Nocnitsa – The Night Hag!It comes as a relatively cool new twist on the growing subset of sleep-based horror/thrillers that, refreshingly, we’ve not seen in the past. Slumber is a tug-of-war between boogeyman haunter and psychological destroyer, neither side dealing anything more than serviceable nighttime blows. That’s until the Morgan family enters Whittingham Sleep Center with a sinister case of restless nights that no doctor can diagnose – for good reason. Synchronized sleepwalking nightmares of varying magnitudes!This is freaky stuff. It was released on December 1, 2017, by Vertical Entertainment.
For instance, the first time we see Daniel paralyzed in his sleep, each one of his family members encounters their own nightmarishly terrifying tangent as well. She strikes the right emotive balance – never too high or low – that gives her character a credibly cared-for sensibility. Sam Troughton and Kristen Bush the desperate parents who also find themselves in danger of bashing through walls and chopping appendages. Effects include feeling a weight pressing down on your chest, physical incapacitation and descriptions of a blurry figure standing near, over or around bedframes. Could myths and legends about a demonic dream-attacker known as the “Night Hag” be real?