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Dead Awake

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Dead Awake

Released May 12, 2017

1h 39m

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Mystery & Thriller

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Kate Bowman is a by-the-books social worker who is investigating a series of mysterious deaths. Each victim suffered from sleep paralysis, a frightening ailment that immobilizes its victims as they dream. Kate is approached by an unorthodox doctor who warns of an evil entity that haunts people in their sleep. She brushes aside his admonition, but when a terrifying entity begins to haunt Kate's friends and loved ones, she must fight to stay awake to stop the nightmare she's unleashed.

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John DeFore

The Hollywood Reporter

Most likely to frighten viewers who begin nodding off and fear they'll be unable to rouse themselves to leave the theater.

May 16, 2017

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Jen Yamato

Los Angeles Times

Despite Donahue's best efforts in a grand finale sleep session with life-or-death stakes, the premise never lives up to its promise.

May 11, 2017

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Rob Staeger

Village Voice

The whole affair plods along in by-the-numbers fashion, and the characters are all types, displaying little evidence of interior lives.

May 11, 2017

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Joey Keogh

Wicked Horror

Dead Awake is slight but scary, simple but tough and, at times, crawlingly creepy. Fear your bed.

Rated: 7/10

Oct 7, 2019

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Josh Goller

Spectrum Culture

With absolutely nothing new to offer, Dead Awake is content to coast on a flimsy premise involving a scary-sounding medical condition turned malevolently paranormal.

Rated: 1/5

Jul 20, 2019

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Kat Hughes

THN

Given this is one of the first movies that we can think of that covers sleep-paralysis in such detail, it should be fresh and invigorate the genre, instead it plods along ticking off all the expected, but uninteresting, boxes.

Rated: 2/5

Aug 29, 2018

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Kenneth S

It’s like a Deja vu movie, I don’t remember the names of the other movies I watched but it’s pretty much the same story but worth watching once. I fell asleep about half way through and rewatched it again and it wasn’t terrible. I’ve definitely watched worse lol.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/10/25

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Audience Member

This movie is garbage, I literally laughed the entire time because of the ridiculous this film can be.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/03/23

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Audience Member

It's perfect to fall sleep in the theater

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/02/23

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Audience Member

WARNING ⚠ You won't die from fear watching this movie, just boredom ⚠

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/04/18

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Audience Member

"Sleep paralysis that can kill you isn't real...psych!" -Dr. Sykes Also, documentary? Heck to the yeah.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/24/23

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Audience Member

This is the worst representation of sleep paralysis that I have ever seen. I have sleep paralysis and I can assure you, this is not what happens. I think this was made to be a horror movie, but at the same time the makers of this movie are mocking the lives of people who actually experience sleep paralysis. Did they do any actual research on sleep paralysis?? This whole production reduces my faith in humanity tbh.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Synopsis

Kate Bowman is a by-the-books social worker who is investigating a series of mysterious deaths. Each victim suffered from sleep paralysis, a frightening ailment that immobilizes its victims as they dream. Kate is approached by an unorthodox doctor who warns of an evil entity that haunts people in their sleep. She brushes aside his admonition, but when a terrifying entity begins to haunt Kate's friends and loved ones, she must fight to stay awake to stop the nightmare she's unleashed.

Director: Phillip Guzman
Producer: Phillip Guzman, James LaMarr, Philip Marlatt, Derek Lee Nixon, Kurt Wehner
Screenwriter: Jeffrey Reddick
Distributor: FilmRise
Production Co: Aristar Entertainment
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 12, 2017, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): May 12, 2017
Runtime: 1h 39m

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