Dream Eater

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Dream Eater

Oct 2025

1h 30m

Horror

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During their holiday at a cabin deep in the snowy Laurentian mountains, Mallory documents her boyfriend Alex's violent parasomnia. When his sleepwalking gets worse, Mallory suspects the cause may be something far more sinister than a mere sleep disorder. Using her expertise as a documentary filmmaker, Mallory digs into Alex's shadowy past and begins to unravel a decades-long mystery steeped in trauma and the occult. As darkness closes in, an ancient evil awakens -- plunging the couple into a downward spiral of madness and horror that threatens to destroy more than just their relationship. By the time the end credits roll, DREAM EATER will have you questioning who you're really sleeping next to at night.

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Beatrice Loayza

New York Times

Williams’s eerie performance flip flops from lovable goofball to raving ghoul, but Drumm’s artificial delivery only brings out the script’s clumsiness.

Oct 24, 2025

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Randy Myers

San Jose Mercury News

...“Dream Eater” hardly rewrites the found footage book, but it does know how to tell a good and quick little campfire story that features an ominous whistle that gave me a chill or two.

Rated: 2.5/4

Oct 23, 2025

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Meagan Navarro

Bloody Disgusting

A conventional found footage horror movie gets a creepy Lovecraftian twist.

Rated: 3/5

Sep 20, 2025

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Bee Delores

B-Sides & Badlands

While the finale could have hit harder—it sort of limps across the finish line in its final moments—Dream Eater supplies plenty of nightmare-inducing flashes that are sure to keep audiences up at night.

Rated: 3.5/5

Nov 11, 2025

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Daniel Gorman

In Review Online

Dream Eater isn’t some new masterpiece of the [found footage] genre, but it does manage to deliver a genuinely creepy time, and sometimes that’s more than enough.

Nov 5, 2025

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Carla Hay

Culture Mix

Dream Eater has a title that refers to this horror movie's supernatural villain. The title could also apply to how this slow-paced and awful ripoff feeds like a parasite on the original ideas of 2009's Paranormal Activity.

Oct 29, 2025

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Linda

It claims to be scary yet it isnt

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

10/31/25

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dan g

My friend was jumping a ton! Based on true story weird!

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

10/29/25

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stephanie

A physiological jump scare movie

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/27/25

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Aimee C. M

So, the pacing killed me on this.. there are some cool creepy aspects but I don't know if I would say scary.. Sort of jump scares, but I feel like you see them coming. I was the only one in the theater so that made it a little bit more creepy for me which was cool vibes. I felt like it was predictable with how it ended.. From the previews, I thought it was going to be a little bit more shock value like him, actually putting his hand in the disposal.. i don't know I wanted to like this so much more. I like the whole idea of the horror section and i'm gonna continue to support and watch new movies that come out. I just hope they get better. The acting was decent though

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

10/27/25

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Sabrina

The actress was not good, but the movie was very enough.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

10/27/25

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Ben

Please do not waste your money please do not waste your time that was abysmal an unimaginative mess of a movie eli Roth just finessed me and my gf out of $40 this was straight cheeks

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

10/26/25

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Synopsis

During their holiday at a cabin deep in the snowy Laurentian mountains, Mallory documents her boyfriend Alex's violent parasomnia. When his sleepwalking gets worse, Mallory suspects the cause may be something far more sinister than a mere sleep disorder. Using her expertise as a documentary filmmaker, Mallory digs into Alex's shadowy past and begins to unravel a decades-long mystery steeped in trauma and the occult. As darkness closes in, an ancient evil awakens -- plunging the couple into a downward spiral of madness and horror that threatens to destroy more than just their relationship. By the time the end credits roll, DREAM EATER will have you questioning who you're really sleeping next to at night.

Director: Jay Drakulic, Mallory Drumm, Alex Lee Williams
Producer: Mallory Drumm, Thomas Chambers, Jay Drakulic, Alex Lee Williams
Screenwriter: Jay Drakulic, Mallory Drumm, Alex Lee Williams
Distributor: Iconic Events
Production Co: Blind Luck Pictures
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 24, 2025, Limited
Runtime: 1h 30m

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