Slumber (2017)

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

I have no idea why every horror film gets an under 5 rating overall. So I'll give it 2 extra stars just for Maggie Q's performance. I usually don't like these films but this one was chilling and subtle. I haven't been this shocked an awed since Alien.

This horror movie really had potential. Especially since its plot was so interesting.But a failure to bring the horror to life on the screen resulted in a very flaccid and monotonous horror movie that offered nothing much of any interesting to anyone, unless this is the first time you watch a horror movie.Maggie Q was performing quite well in "Slumber", and she managed to render the movie bearable to watch.There is a frightening lack of scares in the movie, and the night hag looked interesting the first time you saw it in the hallway, then it just became a mediocre CGI creation after that.This horror movie offers nothing worthwhile to the horror genre.

I liked the idea of a horror movie based on sleep paralysis. It's completely different from nightmares while you're actually asleep and dreaming, so it's nice to see a new spin on it.Maggie Q is great as always. The other actors are decent. Child actors are pretty standard child actors (nothing spectacular). The story drags along a bit slowly for my tastes but it is acceptable for me. However, there are a lot of pitfalls in terms of common sense in this movie that it's not quite right. Not a movie I'd recommend specifically, but if someone was looking through some movies and asked me, I'd tell them I'd watch it. Not a bad movie, just not a good one either.SPOILER ALERTMy biggest criticism has to be the janitor and his father. It seems really randomly inserted and doesn't really quite fit in my opinion. They do not provide answers. They don't know more than what we all know. This is followed up by scenes where they're all just sitting there not doing anything. And the way the whole sequence happened with each individual's nightmares.. it just paints the family as incredibly weak willed and selfish. They even let a random stranger die instead of their kid.And in the end, they let the doctor get taken away into a mental hospital? You've got to be kidding me. She saves their kid and that's how they repay her?

I quite literally turned this off after not even a full minute of viewing, and more horrendously, listening, which is basically why I stopped watching. If you are going to have a child actor in your first scene, make sure the kid can actually act. As soon as he opened his mouth, I was grabbing for the remote. I have never seen or heard such an imbecilic line reading since first grade, and even that was done deliberately to make the audience laugh.So there it is, never saw the movie, as I could not get past a kid saying "OK, THAT SOUNDS FUN!"