ATTENTION: THIS FILM HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO TECHNICAL ISSUES
ANIMALIA will play instead. SLEEP ticket purchasers can see ANIMALIA without exchanging their tickets.
Jason Yu’s Sleep takes the familiar somnambulism motif from multiple horror movies and slowly builds something wholly original from it. Starting as a comedy, morphing into a marital drama, then going somewhere else altogether, Sleep is one wild ride. A husband (Lee Sun-kyun, the wealthy young father in Parasite) and his very pregnant wife (Jung Yu-mi) live in their very tiny apartment – you’ll become very familiar with it – and things are fine until he starts sleepwalking. And sleep eating. And ever-crazier things in his sleep. Then the baby is born. Then things get weird. Yu, who worked as assistant director under Bong Joon-Ho, loves to build tension and shift tones. Though deeply frightening, this is one of the funnier horror movies in recent years, and Yu is fearless, placing puppies, babies and pregnant women directly in harm’s way. ~SM