After losing his Kate, his high school sweetheart, in a horrific house fire Josh Higgins' life tumbles into a depressing mix of insomnia and poor choices. After taking seemingly harmless sleeping pill, Josh is thrusted from his current banal existence to one that he had lost years earlier. As the walls of his own psychosis slowly start to close in around him, Josh must race to save himself, Kate and the parallel life that he vows can never again become...lost.
Acting
Ry Barrett commits fully to unraveling — you feel every breakdown
Direction
Archibald stretches micro-budget into genuine psychological unease
Writing
Ambitious structure that nearly sticks the landing on love-after-death

Director
Chad Archibald
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Chad Archibald made this for pocket change before building Black Fawn Films into a Canadian horror powerhouse.
Ry Barrett later became Archibald's recurring leading man in 'The Heretics' and 'I'll Take Your Dead' — this was their chaotic origin story.