A woman trying to recover from a sexual attack is locked in a posh apartment with a corpse of the very man she's been dreaming would murder her. She tries to hang on to reality when objects around her seem to come to life.
Acting
Stone commits fully to unraveling; Railsback's twinning is unhinged.
Production
That apartment is a character—claustrophobic, artificial, deeply wrong.
Direction
De Felitta leans into dream logic until it snaps.
Director
Frank De Felitta
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
De Felitta also wrote Audrey Rose and The Entity—dude had a thing for women's trauma and the supernatural.
The doll transformation scene uses practical effects so janky they loop back to disturbing; budget limitations became accidental Lynchian texture.
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