![]() It’s a story that feels woefully formulaic and predictable from its very opening, and Don’t Sleep frequently threatens to derail on the sheer basis of how silly the execution of it all is. Soon, though, Zach’s spooky dreams start to return, and both his and Shawn’s peaceful lives are about to be thrown into a waking nightmare. ![]() They make things work for them, move into the new place without too much disruption to their lives and even bond with the neighbours ( Alex Carter and Drea de Matteo) in the process. He’s now an adult who’s pushed that life behind him and he’s all set to move into a lovely cottage in a lovely village with his lovely girlfriend Shawn ( Charlbi Dean Kriek). The film is pegged to a guy called Zach ( Dominic Sherwood), who has had strange nightmares since he was a kid. Conventional horror can still be effective if it’s at least executed with precision but Don’t Sleep can’t even muster up an effective jump scare, let alone any real, nerve-shattering terror. One of Don’t Sleep‘s chief issues is just how uninspired and formulaic its approach to the horror genre is, pulling itself into a rut early on and never serving up anything scary or compelling enough to really win itself back over. Thankfully, the film’s opening sequence is its worst and things start to improve from here on – but not by a whole lot. You know how in some horror films (usually mediocre ones) a couple of characters sit and watch a really shoddy horror film as a kind of laboured foreshadowing? Don’t Sleep‘s opening scene resembles that level of quality. ![]() ![]() As he’s having a nightmare, the camera slowly creeps towards him, we get quick flashes into his horrible dream, the dramatic music builds to a crescendo, and then he wakes up. Don’t Sleep opens in a little boy’s bedroom. ![]()
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