Determined to carry on the rest decide to take matters into their own hands along with a professor willing to assist. This leads to an investigation where the study is shut down. As the film opens we witness Carter go off the deep end and commit suicide cutting his own throat after gauging out his eyes. The five students include leader Joe (Keli Price) who is sleeping with Professor Whatley (Yasmine Aker) in the side, Frannie (Brea Grant) the studious type member, Dale (Stephen Ellis) the class clown and Holly (Christine Dwyer) the girl with her own special secrets and Carter (Lukas Gage). The implications for this in use for soldiers and more would be astronomical. Their theory is that once a person reaches 200 hours without sleep they no longer require it. The story takes place in 1986 at a college where a group of grad students are experimenting with a new drug while trying to make a discovery about sleep and the lack of. SLEEP NO MORE feels like it falls into that category, a horror film that's not bad but that you get the impression wouldn't have lasted long in a theater. But with the invention of streaming whole channels now are focused on the genre and films are being made with those channels in mind, movies that don't always play in theaters but go straight to disc and those channels. At one time that was not the case, horror films only came in cycles and fans were forced to wait for those to come around again. There are a ton of horror movies released these days. This is one you really have to watch and come to your own conclusions as to whether it is good or not. This isn't a polished film with all the works but it isn't that bad as far as low budget films go. The acting and effects weren't too cheesy even though it is clearly a lower budgeted film. There isn't a lot of character building so you never really get a chance to become invested in these characters. This is a slowly paced film and I got the feeling that it is supposed to be set in the 80's from the music and some of the clothing. So, I like the idea but the delivery could have been much better. We have no idea what goes on while we are sleeping. We all need sleep and it is when we are most vulnerable. What could happen? So, I like the idea of this because, and maybe this is just me, it kinda has a Freddy Krueger feel even if it is a far cry from Freddy. After a clinical trial goes tragically wrong, they attempt another trial on themselves sure that they are on the verge of a break through. What if when we are deprived of sleep we not only take away our own mental functionality but we deprive something out in the great unknown of something it needs as well? A group of folks look into treating sleep as an illness theorizing that if they could find a medication to get rid of the "illness" we would no longer need sleep.
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