So, The scary bit is in the first 5 minutes when Liam sees a big tall skinny monster in the middle of the night. The rest of it is a very calm slow moving movie that isn't gem trying to live up to its them as a horror. The only reason I stuck around to wat h is because I hav Sleep Parasomnia and it was interesting to see how the movie messed up on its realism, i.e. at one point Alice (the doctor lady) says to a little girl that she has parasomnia, however parasomnia is REALLY rare in anyone who isn't a 40 year old overweight man. Which Alice should have mentioned. Also any normal, intelligent doctor would have prescribed Colaznepan or some other sleeping disorder tablets that deliberately paralysises people so they can't get up and walk around a night and do strang stuff. Alice should have prescribed this to a lot of the patients in this movie.The sleep disorder centre, (the over night one) the kit they had the patients in, like the wires and stuff they had on their heads should have been a lot bigger and had lots of wires and control boxes all over them along with a big netting mask over their heads. Apart from all the continuity errors this movie is dull, but unique, it's crtainly not trying to scare anyone but it has touched on an area that hasn't been explored much in the world of horror movies.

I had pretty high expectations for this film. I heard alot of good things about it from friends and reviews online. But when I watched it I hated it. It starts off great with a great concept and some great actirs in here but its just done so badly that I almost fell asleep during many scenes. The acting is good, theres not really any memorable preformances or anyone who stood out but it wasn't painful to watch and had some realistic preformance moments in this film. This HORROR film has nothing scary about it. Theres nothing scary or atmospheric in this film. Its so predictable and unoriginal that all the scare attempts just fell flat. One of the films striking problems is how bland and boring it is. There nothing here that is entertaining or original. Its so unintresting and overly long that (as I said) I almost fell asleep. Also this film is so boring you will completely forget you watched this in t-minus 10 minutes. None of the characters are memorable or well developed and I can hardly name any of them because they are all just so bland and forgettable. And the ending is so predictable that i saw it coming from miles away. All in all while its acted well enough, directed okay and has good editing, everything else is bad. Its so bland, forgettable and boring its a waste of time. I do not recommend.

This is an interesting chiller about people doing horrible things when they are asleep, or think they are. It does contain a fair few children, however. I mention this because children in horror films tend to fall into two categories: genuinely frightening (The Exorcist, The Ring etc) ... or brattish. 'Slumber' manages to straddle both possibilities, which is something of a first. Stumbling, screaming kids and ghost-like images are fairly well conveyed, never truly annoying and occasionally producing something genuinely sinister.The soundtrack, a dark ambience by Ulas Pakkan must take a lot of credit for the omnipresent atmosphere of not-quite-reality-or-is-it, and the cast are uniformly very good, even when - in the case of Maggie Q as Alice Arnolds and Will Kemp as husband Tom - the characters are not overtly dynamic.It can be, I'm sorry to say, a little dull, very talky. But there are plenty of moments that deliver the goods. The idea of demon feeding off nightmares is a good one, and it plays on a fear of going to sleep, the debilitating misery of resisting slumber and that hollow pang it can cause.Events are enlivened by the appearance of former Doctor Who and Radagast, Sylvester McCoy, who hams up delightfully the typically eccentric Armado. We only catch a glimpse of the lengths Armado has gone to to resist falling asleep, and it is disturbing.

The fact that it is based on real encounters dpoesn't save the loose plot and the lame acting