1986. A group of college students participate in an experiment in order to prove that one ceases to dream after not sleeping for 200 hours. Naturally, said experiment begets nightmarish side effects.
While director Phillip Guzman offers a tasty evocation of the 1980's period setting and delivers a few fairly creepy moments, he alas lets the pretty interesting story unfold at a sometimes painfully sluggish pace and crucially fails to generate any real essential tension or an equally necessary feeling of urgency. Moreover, there's way too much talk and precious little action, plus the CGI demons definitely leave something to be desired.
Fortunately, the capable cast do their best to rise above the general mediocrity: Keli Price as the eager Joe, Brea Grant as the nerdy Frannie, Stephen Ellis as excitable worrywart Dale, Christine Dwyer as brash punk Holly, Yasmine Aker as unscrupulous businesslike professor Dr. Whatley, and Lukas Gage as the doomed Carter. A seriously blah movie.
While director Phillip Guzman offers a tasty evocation of the 1980's period setting and delivers a few fairly creepy moments, he alas lets the pretty interesting story unfold at a sometimes painfully sluggish pace and crucially fails to generate any real essential tension or an equally necessary feeling of urgency. Moreover, there's way too much talk and precious little action, plus the CGI demons definitely leave something to be desired.
Fortunately, the capable cast do their best to rise above the general mediocrity: Keli Price as the eager Joe, Brea Grant as the nerdy Frannie, Stephen Ellis as excitable worrywart Dale, Christine Dwyer as brash punk Holly, Yasmine Aker as unscrupulous businesslike professor Dr. Whatley, and Lukas Gage as the doomed Carter. A seriously blah movie.