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SLEEP follows newlyweds Hyun-su (Lee Sun-kyun, PARASITE) and Soo-jin (Jung Yu-mi), whose domestic bliss is disrupted when Hyun-su begins speaking in his sleep, ominously stating, "Someone's inside." From that night on, whenever he falls asleep, Hyun-su transforms into someone else, with no recollection of what happened the night before. Overwhelmed with anxiety that he may hurt himself or their young family, Soo-jin can barely sleep because of this irrational fear. Despite treatment, Hyun-su's sleepwalking only intensifies, and Soo-jin begins to feel that her unborn child may be in danger.

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Elegantly executed, Sleep builds prosperously upon a familiar premise and delivers rousing chills.

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Sleep | Rotten Tomatoes (1) Christy Lemire FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles) This is a really fun, tight little thriller that accomplishes a great deal in a limited space. Nov 3, 2024 Full Review Sleep | Rotten Tomatoes (2) Alison Willmore New York Magazine/Vulture Sleep is a wild ride, but it refuses to lose sight of the emotional state of the people it puts onscreen, even as they fall apart. Oct 1, 2024 Full Review Sleep | Rotten Tomatoes (3) Simon Abrams RogerEbert.com Yu stops exactly where he needs to to protect and maintain “Sleep”’s suggestive atmosphere and charming ambiguities. Rated: 3.5/4 Sep 27, 2024 Full Review Sleep | Rotten Tomatoes (4) James Kendrick Q Network Film Desk what makes Sleep such a smart riff on familiar material is that it initially plays directly into our expectations, but then halfway through turns the whole thing upside down Rated: 3/4 Nov 22, 2024 Full Review Sleep | Rotten Tomatoes (5) Andy Klein FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles) What you see is the mental disability of the husband progressively destabilizing the wife -- and that's the really scary part. Nov 3, 2024 Full Review Sleep | Rotten Tomatoes (6) Erik Childress Movie Madness Podcast The setup is creepy and intriguing even as it turns into a more domestic metaphor but it unfortunately just relies on the same old formula for a disappointing climax. Rated: 2.5/4 Oct 31, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Nice lil ghost story but some scenes definitely could have been creepier. Rated 3/5 Stars • Rated 3 out of 5 stars 11/15/24 Full Review Ovidius N Found it all a bit silly and derivative. Ended up day-dreaming during the film. Never a good sign. Definitely not an engaging film, even if the acting is above average. Rated 2/5 Stars • Rated 2 out of 5 stars 11/12/24 Full Review Sarfaraz A Jason Yu wrote and directed his debut South Korean suspense thriller. Jung Yu-mi and Lee Sun-kyun play the lead roles.The film follows a couple, an actor and his pregnant wife. The wife is scared and annoyed by her husband's sleep talking and sleep-walking; he scratches his cheek so hard in his sleep that it bleeds, consumes raw meat and fish from the fridge, attempts to jump off the balcony, and the next day, the home pet dog is discovered dead in the refrigerator. It is discovered that the spirit of the lower floor's elderly tenant has infiltrated the husband's body.The film contains several effective scare jumps, and while there are no ghosts or ghouls in the film, Jason makes certain to terrorize the viewers when the couple falls asleep. The film also confuses the audience halfway through when the wife begins to behave erratic, leaving viewers to wonder if the wife is to blame for everything. Jason has exploited sleepwalking as a captivating subject for a thriller. Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 10/21/24 Full Review Kenneth L This was just an ok ghost story (or was it?) I do not get the hype around this movie. Rated 3/5 Stars • Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/19/24 Full Review Audience Member Absolutely fantastic. The character dynamic of the couple is so fun, very relatable, with lots of levity and love, which really adds to the tension of the danger that could tear it all apart. The only qualm I had with this film was the very very end. No spoilers, but I just felt like it warranted one short scene or two to fully resolve some things, but it also sort of makes sense where it ends because it could be argued as very ambiguous in what happened. But I wish there was one final scene to either confirm this was being ambiguous or if it was just them wanting to end it where it did. But other than that aspect, the film was so masterfully done, very carefully executed, and just a fun wild ride Rated 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 10/03/24 Full Review Ralphie S Didn't know what to expect going in. This one is brilliant. A must see. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/02/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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Jason Yu Director Jung Yu-mi Su-jin Lee Sun-kyun Hyun-su Jason Yu Screenwriter Lewis Taewan Kim Producer Choi Pyung-Ho Executive Producer
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Synopsis SLEEP follows newlyweds Hyun-su (Lee Sun-kyun, PARASITE) and Soo-jin (Jung Yu-mi), whose domestic bliss is disrupted when Hyun-su begins speaking in his sleep, ominously stating, "Someone's inside." From that night on, whenever he falls asleep, Hyun-su transforms into someone else, with no recollection of what happened the night before. Overwhelmed with anxiety that he may hurt himself or their young family, Soo-jin can barely sleep because of this irrational fear. Despite treatment, Hyun-su's sleepwalking only intensifies, and Soo-jin begins to feel that her unborn child may be in danger.

Director
Jason Yu

Producer
Lewis Taewan Kim

Screenwriter
Jason Yu

Distributor
Magnet Releasing

Production Co
Lewis Pictures

Genre
Mystery & Thriller, Horror, Comedy

Original Language
Korean

Release Date (Theaters)
Sep 27, 2024, Limited

Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 27, 2024

Box Office (Gross USA)
$33.9K

Runtime
1h 34m
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