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What to say about this movie? Not much positive, that's for sure. At one point, about half way in the movie, the mother asks her daughter what she did last night, and her response was that she sat through some boring movies. That was exactly what I was doing as well at that point. And it didn't get better after that, even worse if you ask me. The entire movie is just boring, doesn't make much sense, bad decisions and mediocre acting, really nothing to get excited about. The scary parts are unexploited, the rest of the movie is basically garbage.

I don't like it when a movie promises to be a thriller or horror film and then turns out to be a Lifetime Movie of the Week. The setting, the acting, the editing and the script were the same kind of mediocrity I get from the tube, If you are bored, like I was last night, it will pass the time.

Ridiculous waste of time. Little to no plot. Terrible acting. Nothing "thrilling" about the movie at all. What was the purpose of this nonsense??

I kept rewinding thinking I must had missed something because sequences were all over the place or "non sequential"...one moment I was looking at a woman in bed then the next 5 frames, someone cooking. It was the worse editing job I've ever seen, the direction won't win any prizes soon either. Nothing scary happens and there is ZERO action or suspense. One woman keeps yelling her daughter name throughout the entire movie... I wouldn't recommend this film to anyone. Oh so VERY BAD.

This is isn't even a b-movie.

The nonsense starts right away with bad framing, shaky cam where it is not necessary, bad close ups and weird color temperature. Right I away, I knew what I was in for, incompetent camera man, with an incompetent director. That the story would suck, you'll notice 5 minutes in.

I lasted 10minutes, it its worse than student made film. And I agree with a co-poster here, all the 10/10 reviews are fake, clicked some of those profiles, indeed they all reviewed just this piece of waste, not other activity.

Stay away, don't corrupt your spare time with these amateurs.

Movie was just awful! Do not waste your time watching it!

As a mom of several children, this has to be my worst fear in life. Losing a loved one and watching it untangle a family's stability. I'm not big into horror much, but this movie resonated with me. It really focused on the mother/daughter relationship which reminded me of my little girl. During the age where much is changing in her world, to lose a loved one is tragic.

I closed my eyes for any violent or scary parts as that is not my thing. I wouldn't mind seeing the father more as whenever he was on screen, he was great. All around well acted and well written. Will probably give it a second viewing with my teenager as it was too too bad language wise.

After She Wakes is a decent horror/thriller, one that should be looked up by fans of the genres, because it does manage to deliver an ok story with some good acting as well. It surely does become predictable at some point, especially for those who have had their share of such productions, but still, keeps you interested long enough to get you to the finish line.

The execution is ok, the effects stand tall, even tho they are quite minimal, character development is present and a pretty interesting plot developing here. It doesn't stretch for too long, keeps it at 1 hour and 15 minutes, and I always appreciate this, because a lot of movies tend to expand in order to fill up maybe 90, or 105 minutes, but After She Wakes showed exactly what it had in mind and stopped right there. A great example of less is more.

I do recommend it for horror fans out there, I can't say for sure that those enjoying a good thriller will get a blast from this one, but as a indie horror, it works quite ok.

Cheers!

Just didn't really care for it & don't really recommend it all that much.

What a dump of a movie. The story might be ok, but the acting is so bad that I can't really tell. Somehow I made it through to the end...

This movie is filled with terrible acting all over the place. Also scattered as to the story line! Pretty sure it was shot with an iPhone. Is there more than one camera? This movie is going to to need at least a 20 beer night! Feel free to join in how many beers you think before it's good!

After she wakes, nothing happens... That pretty much sums up the entire movie.

I sat down to watch the 2019 horror movie here in 2020 without knowing what the movie was about, aside from it being labeled as a horror movie. And it turns out that it was time wasted, because this movie was uneventful, slow paced and just downright boring.

The storyline dragged on and on at an incredibly painstakingly slow pace. Maybe writer and director David Arthur Clark was trying to set up something grand or build up a creepy atmosphere. But that was not the outcome of whatever endeavors he had, because the movie was boring.

It should be said, though, that the acting in the movie was actually adequate, taking into consideration the severe limitations imposed upon the actors and actresses with the lack of an interesting script and storyline. But ultimately, they just failed to lift up the movie to a bearable level.

For a horror movie, then "After She Wakes" was incredibly dull and quite far from being scary. And for a seasoned horror veteran such as myself, then this movie was just a massive swing and a miss from writer and director David Arthur Clark.

Sure, there were some nice enough visuals throughout the movie. But again, this was just nowhere enough to make up for all the shortcomings that had been stacked up.

The movie was nicely edited though, but that aspect hardly mattered as almost everything else was working against the movie.

I am rating "After She Wakes" a generous two out of ten stars. If you enjoy horror movies, then this is not really a movie that is at the top of the genre.

-1 Star For Having a Shower Scene with no nudity. There is no reason to have any scene in a shower with no nudity. Hitchcock did it in the 60's but his movies were actually GOOD, so he gets a pass. Everyone else?? Nuh uh.

-1 Star for the stupid sequence with the ex husband

+1 Star for the Ending!!!

Okay this one really didn't have anything going for it at all. Giving it 4/10 is probably being way generous .

I found most of the bad reviews unbiased, but I guess I enjoyed the film a bit more. The storyline initially is more confusing than it needed to be. It's as if the director thought his brilliance might show through. It doesn't. The acting is OK. It's extremely weak with respect to character development. The story comes together near the very end, and it's a rewarding end. However too many contrivances were so unlikely that's the story then becomes absurd. There's the expected Horror-trope twist at the end but it even makes less sense, so like me, I assume that the audience just deals with as nuisance footage.

Possibly one of the worst "horror" movies I have ever seen. Don"t waste 72 minutes of your life like I had to.

Crazy, watching this film and I be experiencing them night terrors myself. So I can most definitely relate to this story. I haven't experienced sleep paralysis but that looks terrifying. I see what the film was trying to achieve and I like it. No over the top stupid jump scares, but the kind of stuff that makes you think, and sticks with you. Of course I like movies that are bloody and gory but this film did something different. Sort of along the lines ofGoodnight Mommy or an 80s suspense. I like how they dive into the psychological state of the family also after tragedy also. will be recommending this to my friends. it ain't terrifying horror, its more real-life horror and tragedies which makes it equally as scary.

FYI, giving a film a "1" when you didn't even watch it all the way through is no different than someone creating an account to give this film a 10. Also I, like other people who aren't avid users tend to create a new account after they've watched a film they thoroughly enjoyed which might be getting "hate" for no apparent reason. Now, enough of that, on to the film!

This is in no way a perfect film, so much like the "1" star votes and the "10" star votes, I personally feel its around a 6 or 7. I'll lean "7" because I actually enjoying the camerawork and acting. The story does feel a bit loose, and I am not a huge fan of non-linear stories, save for Memento. I prefer to invest in a story that flows and this did not. Some of the editing choices were bizarre and too "art-house" for my liking. I did like the daughter character and her relationship with the mother. I'm always up for a creepy kind in a MITH style movie.

It felt very rushed in the 3rd act, but maybe because the 3rd act is only 20 minutes long. A short film, but I have a feeling it was intended to not be a typical length film. If you like good cinematography and non-linear stories, you might enjoy this film.

Total waste. Boring movie with no effort to make any sense. The acting stunk, the writing stunk, the whole movie stinks. Watching this film is equivalent to watching 2 turtles race across a football field.

Got rather bored watching this, so checked out the reviews to see if it was worth sticking with. Most indicated it wasn't, so I thought I'd fast forward to some action. I couldn't find any, but just about every scene I stopped on was so dark, I couldn't tell what was happening. Unlike many of the reviews though, I thought the acting was above average - much better than the last budget horror I watched anyway - hence the 4 stars. But definitely would not recommend.