Before I Wake
2016
**½
Director: Mike Flanagan
Cast: Kate Bosworth, Thomas Jane, Jacob Tremblay, Annabeth Gish, Dash Mihok, Topher Bousquet, Jay Karnes, Lance E. Nichols, Kyla Deaver, Scottie Thompson, Hunter Wenzel, Antonio Evan Romero
A grieving couple adopt a young boy whose dreams and nightmares appear to manifest physically as he sleeps. These occurrences are wondrous at first but grow increasingly frightening. Dreams and reality collide in Mike Flanagan's supernatural horror-fantasy. The film follows in the footsteps of A Nightmare On Elm Street and The Babadook, but it isn't quite original or frightening enough to sustain tension, even over its short running time.
