Sleepwalker

2017

Johnny's comments:

Sleepwalker is a sleep disorder thriller where student Sarah (Ahna O'Reilly) is sleepwalking and having disturbing nightmares. She checks into the sleep disorder clinic run by Dr. Cooper (Izabella Scorupco) but after a sleeping session, she wakes up as someone else called Sarah with a different surname, one which she doesn't recognise. Also, Dr. Cooper doesn't seem to recognise her despite her helping Sarah earlier. She seeks advice from another doctor, Scott (Richard Armitage), but the nightmares continue with a psychotic killer (Haley Joel Osment) after her and she now wakes up in different places and also her roommates fail to recognise her. Distraught, Sarah seeks more help from Dr. Scott but things are not what they seem. Will Sarah overcomes her sleeping problems or is it something more sinister?

Sleep disorder thrillers are always a tricky genre to pull off and the entire process involves numerous twists as there are no real world rules in dreams, but it also means that these movies end up being ridiculously complicated and Sleepwalker is yet another example. There seems to be a number of different timelines going on here, none really ending satisfactorily, but the plot intrigues enough to make the movie fairly watchable plus Ahna O'Reilly spends a fair chunk of the movie in a very flimsy nightie (all put together in one 7 1/2 minute video below). I think her wearing that nightie is a plot device, but I can't figure out what it's significance is. But it is very significant, particularly in an unscheduled rainstorm...

Ahna O'Reilly film clip (collages below)