Psychiatrist Phillip Tanner (a solid performance by Scott Broughton) decides to read the diary of teenage gal Molly Goldman (an unnerving portrayal by Kelly Francis Fischer) to figure out why she murdered her family. Phillip winds up falling into a state of insomnia and confusion that led Molly to go crazy.
Writer/director relates the engrossing story at a steady pace, adroitly crafts a creepy and unsettling atmosphere, takes time to develop the characters, grounds the premise in a believable workaday reality, and generates a good deal of tension. The sound acting from the capable cast keeps this movie humming: Traci L. Newman as Phillip's concerned wife Charlotte, Jeffrey Wells.as pragmatic colleague Jeffrey Black, and Lauretta Compton as Phillip's sweet daughter Cindy. The surprise grim ending packs a jolting punch. A cool little flick.
Wake Up
2019
Action / Horror / Thriller
Wake Up
2019
Action / Horror / Thriller
Plot summary
When a psychiatric doctor researches a young girls' diary to find out why she murdered her entire family, he begins to fall into the same state of insomnia and confusion that led her to lose her mind.
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Neat indie horror movie
"What do you want with me?"
This film jarringly confused me. If two people and possibly a third as hinted at the end of the movie are affected by reading Molly's diary which she has cursed, what affected Molly to begin with? Did she curse herself? Is the film about teenage self-harm? How does the relation between dreams and reality figure in it all? What was the waking up thing about anyway? Is Molly a ghost or a spectre? Why did she kill her family? What's it all about, movie? Apart from the plot problems this is rather boring, not helped by the weak acting and uninteresting visuals.
7th grade school project?
This movie is laughable but not funny, nor is it scary. It's crappy as can be. The acting is so bad and mechanical it's as if the cast members are all robots. Everything about this movie is bad, the acting, script, direction, editing... A terrible attempt at making a film. Extremely low budget.