Parasomnia is a sleep disorder involving abnormal behaviour usually occurring between wakefulness and REM sleep.
The film Parasomnia can be summarized as follows: Boy loses girl. Boy meets girl. Girl meets serial killer. Serial killer chases girl in her dreams (a la Nightmare on Elm Street). Add creepy hospital as backdrop (a la Session 9, etc., etc.). Rinse. Repeat.
There's nothing wrong with borrowing from other genre classics, provided you have a solid original foundation to build on. The problem is, Parasomnia doesn't have that. It's a loose collection of independently intriguing ideas that collectively just don't tie together well enough for me to want to enjoy it. The limited budget and bare-bones special effects further hinder the film.
Far from being an impediment to restful sleep, Parasomnia is in fact the key to it.
The film Parasomnia can be summarized as follows: Boy loses girl. Boy meets girl. Girl meets serial killer. Serial killer chases girl in her dreams (a la Nightmare on Elm Street). Add creepy hospital as backdrop (a la Session 9, etc., etc.). Rinse. Repeat.
There's nothing wrong with borrowing from other genre classics, provided you have a solid original foundation to build on. The problem is, Parasomnia doesn't have that. It's a loose collection of independently intriguing ideas that collectively just don't tie together well enough for me to want to enjoy it. The limited budget and bare-bones special effects further hinder the film.
Far from being an impediment to restful sleep, Parasomnia is in fact the key to it.
- A. Earnhart