Don't Sleep

The ending music happens. 🙄 This was beyond disappointing. I may actually sue for damages.

The lead actress (turned model) might clearly love herself and the director wanted to showcase her with super slow walks to the shower, but she did nothing good with her role. An awful performance, barely anything to feed off for the lead actor Dominik who at least made an effort not to take the Michael out the audience. Even if he couldn't execute it. This movie felt like the show RIVERDALE where teen like writing and delivery occurs.

Low budget ghostly figures, rushed tension, rushed and poor dialogue, slow start and no chemistry between the leads. The romantic scenes were cringey as was charlbis lacklustre performance. Ruined the entire film.

All in all sorry not sorry this was terrible for a horror film. And a young(ish) couple clearly older than the student age they're meant to play, moves into a big cottage... oh come on. In England youd move into a studio! So unrelated. Poor casting.

Complete Shiite.

The music is too loud; poorly mixed.

Some good actors, some average actors, and some no name actors- none of which brought any level of interest to this flop of a horror flick.

Poor script, poor directing, and sub par acting and special effects.

Rick James • Four Thumbs Down • 👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼

I'm pretty surprised with the talent of actors like Elwes, DiMatteo and Alex Rocco of "God Father" fame would be in a film with such a stupid plot and terrible, Total "B" class production value. This is not to say any of these actors are top notch Hollywood "A" listers. They are, however, talented and have been in some very good films and TV shows.

That said, this is simply one of yet another non-relevant mediocre at best, attempt to delve into a Horror story that tries to be different. Let's face it, it's not the easiest task of creating a "new" type of horror film that has not been done in one way or another 100's X's over. But, every once in a while a really good new film comes out that does manage to be original despite using formats already used many times. (Sinister, The Conjuring, Paranormal activity, Saw, Hostel Deliver us from evil etc)....

It seems as though anyone with a few bucks and a decent camera can write, produce, direct and sell crap dressed up as scary and unique yet, us Horror and Thriller fans pay (with time and $) hoping we find something worth telling your friends about. They are few and far between. If you do tell anyone about this film in the form of a recommendation, make sure you say "steer way clear".

Don't Sleep is no different. Acting was way below par surprisingly. One caveat, in defense of Cary Elwes, he is only in a few scenes. Direction was all over the place and the flashback scenes made no sense. Frankly, it was a boring film that I had to struggle to get through. The makeup (for the Demons/Ghosts?) was akin to something you would expect from a 10 year old kid showing up at your door on Holloween. Yes, it really Is that bad.

I don't like writing spoilers in any of my reviews and won't do that now, although I should and save you all a lot of wasted time and $.

The name of this film should have been "Do sleep"! And there should have been a recommendation at the beginning of the film advising to do just that for the next 97 minutes rather then a quote from Nitsche, which was, BTW, the best part of the film.

Go and rent ANY of the films I mention above if you want to see an original, worthwhile film that will put a fright into you.

Don't, Sleep

"Don't" bother watching this. And yet, ironically (or is it just coincidentally?), this may represent a cure for insomnia.