Don't Sleep

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A quick glance at the cast tells you a lot about this felonious masquerade of a movie. There are names you know from long past projects, trying to remain relevant. They do not manage to do so in this lethargic mess.Dull long before its hilariously bad "twist", this is one movie that should be avoided at all cost. Not a single thing redeeming here, just a bad movie that should have never seen the light of day.

I can see right away the best thing about this will be that Drea DeMatteo is in it. Don't see much of her anymore since Sopranos. Other than that this movie was pretty terrible. 2/10

The ending music happens. 🙄 This was beyond disappointing. I may actually sue for damages.

The soundtrack at the end credits. I fell in love with the music, so if nothing else, I'm glad I didn't give up and shut the movie off before it was over. Stacy Earl's "Devil Inside You" was beautifully haunting and was very hard to find online. I found it on the apple store. Anyway, back to the movie itself. I love horror movies and am always looking for new and intriguing ones to watch (but I stay away from realistic gore and serial killer movies on most occasions). That being said, I was mini binging movies today and after finishing "The Haunting" again, and watching "Amityville: The Awakening (which I'd give about 5-6 stars)" for the first time, I decided to check out this one because I enjoy watching Dominic in "Shadowhunters" on Freeform (Very upset it's been cancelled after season 3..sigh Freeform people are idiots). I had some trouble following along with the story as the plot seemed very thin and there were quite a few holes (why did he go after Alex Rocco's character? How did Vince end up in that dungeony thing? Why did Timmy have to die?). Of course, I was busy making jewelry items so I may have missed some details but overall, I just couldn't wrap my mind around what was happening. Some of the dialogue was thin, and the concepts just weren't super feasible, even for a horror movie. I will say, the ending was surprising, but again, I just didn't understand the whole concept. Who were Zach and Shawn in another life? They showed them in a different time, but how did they become evil? So much could have been explored in more backstory, but with a runtime of 141 minutes, there really wasn't a whole lot to expand upon. My favorite part of the movie besides the music at the end was seeing Carey Elwes, which had been a surprise to me when I turned it on. Watch it on demand if you're interested, so you don't pay money for it, and hell, even fast forward to check out the hauntingly beautiful end credit music.

I didn't look at the reviews before I started the movie,so I could see if I liked it on my own. I'm glad I watched it. It was not a great movie,but it was entertaining. However I saw the twist early in the movie. the movie does not look low budget, it could have passed for movie in theaters. I think you should watch the movie yourself and see what you think.

Don't even have any words... literally speechless about how to explain how rubbish. Just trust the reviews on this one and don't waste your time. Sorry Dom 🙈

I love cary so that is why i watched it but even as a side character he was barely in it. the movie sucked so bad i can't even remember their names and i just watched it. the movie was so badly written. there were points in the movie where you feel like you missed the set up because it just throws it at you and you are like "what the bleep????" like the older couple's father. he lives with them but its never said he is just there at dinner. yet you don't know it yet until he goes crazy and the main characters go to see him. and then there is the father's dog that died. the female main character comments to the father she hear that it died not got lost but died and the father talks about the dog lovingly but you never see anything about the dog before that. and how good of friends the couples are. one dinner together and they are like the best of friends? then there is the point of the movie where the older wife talks about the fisherman and his raped wife out of the blue. there is no eluding to it through out the movie. nothing even having anything to do with bit of history/myth throughout the movie. they are not even by the freaking ocean in the movie. in the main character's dream, who the hell is that old woman any way? she is never explained. Timmy (funny the only character's name i remember) he isn't introduced until almost right before he dies yet he is suppose to be a good friend since childhood? There is just so much of the movie the you feel like you missed out on because there is just so much that thrown at you with no build up. The demon kid and the demon neighbor girl doesn't even make sense. and i mean the demon kid doesn't make sense because if the main character is the demon kid how was he tormenting the older couple'a father? the whole movie just doesn't make a lick of sense. don't watch it. the only thing that make some sot of sense is why the dreams did come back until the couple moved in together. since she is, i guess, "the other half"??? of the demon it makes sense but it doesn't make sense why it happened when he was a kid. especially since he didn't see her, not meet her he just saw her, until he went to the doctor's office. or maybe the catalysis of the demon. whatever...

Too little story too late. Dominic Sherwood plays a man who starts having tormented visions. He has them as a boy and they were erased but return. Finally there is this totally out of place historical demonic explanation. The title hasn't much to do with the story. Frustratingly a lot of dark scenes. Waste of a good supporting cast including Jill Hennessy and Drea DiMatteo.

With "Zach and Shawn" in the description, I excitedly thought there was a horror film with a gay couple. No such luck. Certain aspects were interesting, but it wasn't good enough to keep me from falling asleep. Don't bother.