bseaman-20248 I have scarier nightmares than this sorry lot (Spoiler Alert: There is a plug in this, ahem, so-called "documentary" for Evangelical Christianity) on a regular basis, i.e. at least once per month and I just put them down as that, scary dreams. People have bad dreams. In some of those dreams, we cannot move. Big deal.

SnoopyStyle 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.

mauro volvox I've had sleep paralysis (SP) for ages, since I was a boy. It is a recurrent thing for me. Yes, SP can be a terrifying experience. It can create a very vivid and a extremely intense feeling of dread and horror.But once one learns that SP is a sleep disorder, it is only one's brain playing tricks and that it is a benign experience (no one dies of it) and that it is not supernatural and there are no devils, evil spirits involved, it gets much easier to deal with it. But in this pseudo-documentary, the producers, writers decided to use a mystical, religious bias to describe and interpret SP. There is very little science, no actual effort is made to explain SP in scientific terms.This documentary is for the folks who do not believe in evolution and still think that Earth is flat, and that SP is related to alien abductions, spiritual events or all this new age mumbo-jumbo. The Wikipedia page about Sleep Paralysis is much, much better and more enlightening than this pseudo-documentary made, it seems, in the dark ages.

tylermoore The directing and editing on this documentary are very well done. Lots of really great horror imagery. I'm not sure if it's the people embellishing their stories or if the interviews are just scripted to begin with. But something feels incredibly fake about a lot of it. I really hate giving this a bad score. I was going to give a lower one but at least a 5 is average. Its a very well made movie, but some of the stories people were telling made me cringe with how made up they felt. Who knows, though. Maybe they did experience that. But for one reason or another, I didn't buy it. If you're interested in the topic of sleep paralysis, this is a decent watch. Check it out on Netflix. You might like it more than I did.