An app that puts you to sleep—permanently. Your phone's new nightmare fuel.
When Peter, an anxious arcade owner, is prescribed an app rather than sleeping pills, he reluctantly tries it out. However, far from bringing rest, Erebus’s soporific voice takes Peter into a waking nightmare from which he may never escape.
Acting
Eiry Thomas's deadpan terror and Paterson Joseph's unsettling bedside manner.
Sound
Rebecca Trehearn's Erebus voice—ASMR from actual hell.
Direction
Geraint Morgan squeezes cosmic dread into 14 minutes of fluorescent purgatory.
Director
Geraint Morgan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film taps into 2023's wave of 'sleep app horror'—our phones already track our REM cycles, so the leap to parasitic possession feels unnervingly plausible.
Geronimo was shot in a functioning arcade in Cardiff; the flickering CRT monitors required no set dressing—the location's authentic decay does the work.
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