I figured I was designed to enjoy this film… or any flick involving the mystical magical act of sleep that so often eludes me. So what a disappointment I bounced off this one hard.

It’s a South Korean film about a husband and wife where he is starting to have a severe case of sleepwalking… or sleep other things that start to get dangerous. And since they have a baby on the way, they seek out medical assistance… and later supernatural assistance.

The film is fairly slowly paced but it uses that to let us get to know this couple. I appreciate the effort to make us care. That’s not my problem with the movie.

My problem is that they started with a premise – dangerous nocturnal wanderings – and then tried to figure out “and then what?” in a way that didn’t interest me. They could have done anything and ultimately went with just a possession story that pretty much left the sleep part in its wake. A movie called Sleep that stops being about sleep really didn’t keep my attention.

So I’m very low on the ratings where everyone else is high. That’s probably because I love sleep (that’s where I’m a Viking!) and sleep related stories so much. There aren’t enough of them but I’ve seen a zillion ghosty possession stories. And this one dragged it out for too long and then had a shrug of an ending.

Score: 68