Director Rodney Ascher created this film about eight people who suffer from sleep paralysis. It recreates their nightmares and examines their difficulties with a healthy dose of nightmarish movie clips. This movie is stuck in between. It's not strictly a documentary. The characters are played by regular-looking actors. With the recreations, this tries to look like a documentary but is never convincing as such. On the other end, this movie has no plot. It has no narrative. It has no thrills. It's just a series of recreations. I would rather have a straight-forward documentary or a found-footage horror. This is somewhere in the middle where nothing really works.

This is a documentary about people describing their sleep paralysis which is similar to that of other people and some cinema horror films. Some speculate on inter-dimensional travel etc.

The film is as exciting as watching a stranger's slide show. It is repetitive and boring. No one dreams about topless women or pink rabid bunnies. Shadow people? seriously? Yawn.

Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity.

Sleep paralysis is not fun for those suffering from it. So was it time to do a documentary about it, to raise awareness for it? Maybe - or maybe not, especially considering that there is no real solution at hand. But maybe just the fact that the people who suffer had a chance to talk about this publicly helped them or their families a little bit (though don't get it twisted, cure is not in sight).

This is no documentary as you come to know them. There is a lot of things that are being visualized, for the viewers benefit. So they can "feel" what the interviewees are going through. That kind of works, but also may set a horror frame, that some people were not expecting to get. So while this is not declared a horror movie, it may be seen as such by some. Be aware of that ... also this references a couple of movies, some handling sleep paralysis (even in small dialog like in the Original Nightmare on Elm Street). Still while all is sort of interesting to a point, I'm not sure there is enough to hold your attention for the whole running time ...