Parasomnia (2008)

User Rating:

5.4/10   

Director:

William Malone

Writer:

William Malone (writer)

Release Date:

2009 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Romance | Thriller

Plot:

A horror-thriller centered on a woman (Wilson) suffering from a medical condition that causes her to sleep her life away, waking briefly on rare occasions.

Plot Keywords:

Female Nudity | Sleeping Disorder

Cast

Dylan Purcell	...	Danny Sloan
Patrick Kilpatrick	...	Byron Volpe
Jeffrey Combs	...	Detective Garrett
Cherilyn Wilson	...	Laura Baxter
Timothy Bottoms	...	Dr. Corso
Kathryn Leigh Scott	...	Nurse Evans
Brennan Bailey	...	Danny - Age 8
Dov Tiefenbach	...	Billy
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Alison Brie	...	Darcy
Katherine Carlsberg	...	Miranda
Madison Davenport	...	Young Laura
Jeff Doucette	...	Detective Conroy
Mekita Faiye	...	Nurse / receptionist
Enzo Giobbe	...	Man in hallway with camera
Louis Graham	...	Dr. Bhyle
Jane Hamilton	...	TV Reporter
Valorie Hubbard
Ronald Hunter	...	Stranger
Marty Ingels	...	Mr. boudreau
Janet Tracy Keijser	...	Sara
Christine Krench	...	Sales Clerk
Sarah Laine	...	Pretty Young Nurse
John Landis	...	Department Store Manager
Danielle Langlois	...	Anne
Sandy Martin
Sean McHugh	...	Officer #2
Ricardo Medina Jr.	...	Officer
Philip Newby	...	Phil
Leo Quinones	...	Field Reporter
Charles Schneider	...	Gun selling creep
Kent Shocknek	...	News Anchor
Malcolm Foster Smith	...	Security Guard
David Ury	...	Record Store Owner
Sean Young	...	Madeline Volpe

Runtime:

Germany:103 min (European Film Market)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

UK:18

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Luminous Processes

Trivia:

Director William Malone funded the entire project himself.

Hollywood misses the boat again and we lose... Again. Great film we won't see!!

OK, I'm now convinced that, not only is Hollywood illiterate but now they don't even know how to watch movies. Why doesn't his movie have a big release in this country? While visiting with a friend in L. A., I saw this at a special screening in Hollywood at the Egyptian Theater. The director said they were still looking for a distributor. A fact I find unbelievable. I had never heard of this film yet what I saw lit up in the dark was one of the best... I was going to say horror movies... but JUST PLAIN MOVIES that I've seen. Instead Hollywood gives us over-blown remakes of remakes. This is one of the most original, fun, and entertaining films I've ever watched. Are these guys asleep at the switch?

This movie is really interesting because it starts out slowly and then begins turning the thumb screws down until you're about to yell. We see this kid (Danny) through a series of very bad decisions... get himself deeper and deeper into a hole until you wonder how he's ever going to be able to get out of it. What's cool is his actions are completely understandable because of his obsession with this sleeping girl..(The chick who plays her is VERY HOT!!!! BTW). This movie does something that you just don't see in movies now. The build to the end gets more and more intense and reveals more layers and convolutions than a Nixon investigation. I'm not going to say more than that, 'cause I don't want to give anything away but the last half of this movie is just plain great. This has one of the best endings in a film ever. Judging from the films I've seen in the last few years this must be hard to do. The look and mood of the film is unique. The movie is lush and creepy like a dream that you don't want to wake up from. You just want to go back there and revisit those places and live in that world with those people.

OK, I'm gong to be kind and imagine that Warner Bros, Sony, MGM, 20th Century Fox and all those guys have never heard of this film either... Yeah.. That's it.