Eight minutes. One bed. Zero escape from grief's grip.
A grief-stricken young woman, plagued by sleep paralysis and the mysterious beings that haunt her visions, finds that she has more demons to face than just those lurking in her bedroom.
Cinematography
Suffocating close-ups that turn bedsheets into prisons
Sound
Sound design that crawls inside your skull and stays there
Acting
Mikhayla Dennis: silent screaming, masterclass in stillness
Director
Lukas Ernst
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sleep paralysis demons vary culturally; here they're repurposed as manifestations of maternal loss and self-punishment.
Director Lukas Ernst shot this as his VCA graduate film with reportedly zero budget and borrowed hospital equipment.
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