After She Wakes2019
Directed by David Arthur Clark
The premise
After tragic death of her baby son, a narcoleptic mother with young daughter suffers from terrifying sleep disruptions as they try to deal with ongoing pain and grief. They begin experiencing different episodes of parasomnia including night terrors and sleep paralysis, leaving them unable to move and only able to witness horrific visions. These nightmares become too disturbing as they create a rift in their own realities causing the mother to believe someone or something is watching her sleep every night. Soon the terrifying visions from their dreams begin to manifest into a sinister reality, leaving the mother vulnerable.
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Haunted by the loss of her infant son, a narcoleptic mother and her young daughter find their nights becoming unbearable as episodes of sleep paralysis and night terrors blur the line between dreaming and waking life. What begins as the body's response to grief gradually takes on a more sinister shape, as something seems to linger in the darkness while they sleep. The film uses the helplessness of parasomnia as a visceral lens through which to explore a family's psychological unraveling, building an atmosphere of creeping dread that refuses easy answers.
Content: Death Of An Infant (Referenced), Depictions Of Sleep Paralysis And Night Terrors, Psychological Distress, Jump Scares
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