Making things worse in this case, Phillip Guzman's film offers a supernatural creature who terrorizes these paralyzed sleepers, threatening to suffocate them before they can wake. Goosebumps (2015) Free Online. As problematic as it sometimes was, Ascher's nonfiction pic milked the premise much more effectively than this inert thriller, which is most likely to frighten viewers who begin nodding off and fear they'll be unable to rouse themselves to leave the theater. Playing twins, Jocelin Donahue stars as Beth, a recovering addict, and Kate, her condescending sister. Beth has been losing rest due to sleep paralysis, not understanding the problem or wanting to talk about it with her friends.

While boyfriend Evan (Jesse Bradford) supports her, others are inclined to think Beth's haggard state might be due to a relapse. Defending herself against this notion with Kate, Beth tells her what's going on; Kate takes her to a sleep specialist (Lori Petty), who explains that this condition afflicts a large percentage of the population at some point and is nothing to worry about. Almost Christmas (2016) Video Download. That night, the same thing happens to Kate: Finding herself wide awake but immobile, she stares with open eyes as a spider descends toward her face, then crawls across it.

Though the film's FX make the encounter pretty difficult to believe, it certainly makes an impression on Kate. Once awake, she rushes to find Beth, who has been killed in her dreams. Kate and Evan set out to solve the mystery of this death- by- nightmare phenomenon, getting help from a researcher (Jesse Borrego) who is less sanguine about sleep paralysis than the previous expert. Through him, they learn about . As we start to meet more and more people who've had encounters with the Old Hag, the pic begins to be all about taking drugs to stay awake, using elaborate systems to get just a tiny amount of sleep without being unconscious so long that one might be killed. But unlike Nightmare on Elm Street and other it- comes- in- your- dreams frighteners, Dead Awake isn't likely to make anyone in the real world scared of bedtime.

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Production company: Aristar Entertainment Group. Distributor: Film. Rise. Cast: Jocelin Donahue, Jesse Bradford, Brea Grant, Jesse Borrego, Lori Petty. Director: Phillip Guzman. Screenwriter: Jeffrey Reddick. Producers: Phillip Guzman, Philip Marlatt, Kurt Wehner. Executive producers: A.

J. Gutierrez, Jeffrey Reddick, Lee. Lee Wellberg. Director of photography: Dominique Martinez. Production designer: Kurt Wehner. Costume designer: Debra Sugarman.

Editor: Peter Devaney Flanagan. Composer: Marc Vanocur. Casting director: Neely Gurman.