Sleep
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2023South KoreaLanguage: koDirected by Jason Yu★ 6.7
Available in English: subtitled
A pregnant wife who becomes worried about her husband’s sleeping habits. What starts out as some light sleep-talking soon escalates to unexpectedly grotesque behaviour. They consult a sleep clinic without success and as his nightmarish behaviour escalates, they desperately seek help from a shaman.
Themes and style
Tone
tensehauntingbleakdark comedy
Pacing
slow burnescalating
Story
unravelingsurvival
Emotion
paranoiafeeling powerlessloyalty under pressuregrief
Themes
family dutyreligion and faithmen and women navigating expectations
Feel
quietly hauntingdiscussion startergut punchcerebral
Violence
moderate