Dead Awake

Name: Dead Awake
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Released: May 12, 2017
Duration: 99 min
Cast: A.J. Gutierrez, Billy Blair, Brea Grant, James Eckhouse, Jesse Borrego

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FilmRise | Release Date: May 12, 2017 | Not Rated

Starring: A.J. Gutierrez, Billy Blair, Brea Grant, James Eckhouse, Jesse Borrego, Jesse Bradford, Jocelin Donahue, Liz Mikel, Lori Petty, Mona Lee Fultz

Summary: Kate Bowman (Jocelin Donahue) is a straight-laced, by-the-books social worker who finds herself plunged into a world of supernatural terror while investigating a series of deaths where people died in their sleep. The victims all reported being terrorized by a dark entity that paralyzed and tormented them, before eventually killing them.Kate Bowman (Jocelin Donahue) is a straight-laced, by-the-books social worker who finds herself plunged into a world of supernatural terror while investigating a series of deaths where people died in their sleep. The victims all reported being terrorized by a dark entity that paralyzed and tormented them, before eventually killing them. Kate is joined in this quest by Evan (Jesse Bradford) an artist who is slow to believe that something supernatural is occurring. Feeding Evan’s doubt is Dr. Sykes (Lori Petty) an expert in sleep disorders. She’s convinced the victims all suffered a common but frightening sleep ailment called sleep paralysis. Dr. Sykes assures Kate and Evan that while sleep paralysis is scary, it’s not dangerous. But soon, Kate is approached by Hassan Davies (Jesse Borrego) an eccentric doctor who was discredited for his unorthodox practices and beliefs. Hassan informs Kate that the evil entity haunting people’s nightmares is very real. Even worse, now that Kate has started studying it, she has opened herself up to the dark entity. Belief is the doorway that lets it find its victims. Kate tries to brush off Hassan’s dire warning, but she soon finds herself falling victim to the dark entity she’s been investigating. And by talking about it to her family and friends, she’s caused them to start to believe. As the terrifying entity stalks Kate’s friends and loved ones, she realizes that she’s brought death to the people around her. Now, she and Evan must fight to stay awake and get to the truth, in order to stop the nightmare she’s unleashed from claiming them all.… Expand

Director: Phillip Guzman

Genre(s): Thriller, Horror

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 99 min

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Rob Staeger

May 11, 2017

Under the direction of Phillip Guzman, the whole affair plods along in by-the-numbers fashion, and the characters are all types, displaying little evidence of interior lives. Read full review

Jen Yamato

May 11, 2017

Despite Donahue’s best efforts in a grand finale sleep session with life-or-death stakes, the premise never lives up to its promise. Read full review

John DeFore

May 22, 2017

As generic paranormal mysteries go, this is an awfully dull one, filled with dead air and stiff direction. Read full review

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DirigiblePulp

Nov 23, 2017

A film about sleep paralysis, the only theme I've been more scared of going in to a film (see: "The Nightmare") than I have waking up the next day (as in, I thought I was going to have nightmares and wake up paralyzed but then woke up the next day having forgotten all about it).

Well here'sA film about sleep paralysis, the only theme I've been more scared of going in to a film (see: "The Nightmare") than I have waking up the next day (as in, I thought I was going to have nightmares and wake up paralyzed but then woke up the next day having forgotten all about it).

Well here's the fiction take, including the woefully underutilized since "The House of the Devil" actress Jocelin Donahue. It's too bad the the film itself is a tepid, creaky tale of a sleepytime boogeyman that strangles you while you lay there paralyzed. That's not exactly scary. The plot is just pure nonsense and the film has literally no tension nor atmosphere to speak of.… Expand

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