Sleep (2020) | reviewed by: Gerry Carey | August 28, 2023
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Lynch and King comparisons are the quickest to cite with this slightly surrealist folk horror. Beautifully shot and decently crafted.
genre foreign | Horror
synopsis Mona’s days are filled with concern for her mother, a woman broken by her belief that her nightmares are real. In search of answers, Mona arrives in a village where she encounters an old family curse in a strange hotel.
lead actors Gro Swantje Kohlhof | Sandra Hüller | August Schmölzer | Marion Kracht | Agata Buzek | Max Hubacher | Martina Schöne-Radunski | Katharina Behrens | Andreas Anke | Benjamin Heinrich | Josefine Schäferhoff | Samuel Weiss
director Michael Venus