A look at a frightening condition that plagues thousands; sleep paralysis.
Chilling but overly narrow documentary focusing on sleep paralysis.
While Ascher brings the experiences to life in a way that could conceivably induce nightmares in casual viewers, the potency of these scenes is ultimately diminished by repetition.
They are articulate about what they have endured but the film-makers might have served them better by either making a straight documentary without the over-stylised horror-movie frills, or by using their recollections as the starting point for a fictional drama.
Interviews with sleep paralysis sufferers makes a disturbingly persuasive case for the origins of nightmare tropes in art and literature.
Cheesy scares trump analysis in Rodney Ascher’s hokey docu-horror.
General release. Check local listings for show times.