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While We Sleep

  • 2021
  • 1h 32m
IMDb RATING
3.4/10
583
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While We Sleep (2021)
After observing a hauntingly familiar abnormal CAT scan of a 13 year old girl, radiologist Nina Evanko battles to find the source of the young girl's sleeping disorder. What she discovers is darker and stranger than she could have imagined.
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After observing a hauntingly familiar abnormal CAT scan of a 13 year old girl, radiologist Nina Evanko battles to find the source of the young girl's sleeping disorder. What she discovers is... Read allAfter observing a hauntingly familiar abnormal CAT scan of a 13 year old girl, radiologist Nina Evanko battles to find the source of the young girl's sleeping disorder. What she discovers is darker and stranger than she could have imagined.After observing a hauntingly familiar abnormal CAT scan of a 13 year old girl, radiologist Nina Evanko battles to find the source of the young girl's sleeping disorder. What she discovers is darker and stranger than she could have imagined.

  • Director
    • Andrzej Sekula
  • Writers
    • Brian Gross
    • Rich Ronat
  • Stars
    • Slava Babenkov
    • Sergey Denga
    • Brian Gross
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  • IMDb RATING
    3.4/10
    583
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Andrzej Sekula
    • Writers
      • Brian Gross
      • Rich Ronat
    • Stars
      • Slava Babenkov
      • Sergey Denga
      • Brian Gross
    • 27User reviews
    • 8Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Slava Babenkov
    Slava Babenkov
    • Wino
    Sergey Denga
    Sergey Denga
    • Barmen
    Brian Gross
    Brian Gross
    • Derek
    Lyra Irene Gross
    • Cora
    Vasyl Hotsko
    • Demon…
    Jacy King
    Jacy King
    • Jennifer
    Alexander Omelyanov
    • Petro Hubenko
    • (as Aleksandr Omelyanov)
    Iryna Polikovska
    Oksana Polishchuk
    Roman Polyakov
    Pavlo Shpegun
    • Alex
    Sasha Syzonenko
    Sasha Syzonenko
      Darya Tregubova
      • Nina
      Oliver Trevena
      Oliver Trevena
      • Father Andrey
      Nataliya Vasko
      Nataliya Vasko
      • Director
        • Andrzej Sekula
      • Writers
        • Brian Gross
        • Rich Ronat
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      1paul_m_haakonsen

      Just skip this one...

      Right, well, "While We Sleep" I slept too. Man, talk about a swing and a miss of a movie.

      Sure, I will admit that I was initially suckered into watching the 2021 horror movie "While We Sleep" on the account that it was a horror movie that I hadn't already seen. And yeah, the movie's cover wasn't all that bad; a bit cheesy, but not overly bad.

      I hadn't even heard about "While We Sleep" prior to sitting down and watching it. So I wasn't sure what to expect from writers Brian Gross and Rich Ronat. But I certainly was expecting a horror movie. But that is not what director Andrzej Sekula delivered. Well, unless you consider an unfathomably dull and slow paced movie to be horror.

      The storyline written by Brian Gross and Rich Ronat was just insanely boring and uneventful. There was literally and virtually nothing of any interest happening throughout the course of the movie, so the run time of 92 minutes was quite a struggle to sit through. And I have to be honest, I drifted off to sleep twice throughout the ordeal that is known as "While We Sleep".

      I wasn't familiar with the cast in the movie, and that is usually something I enjoy in movies. But the actors and actresses in "While We Sleep" had a snowballs chance in Hell of delivering anything worthwhile, as they had a non-existing script to work with, rigid dialogue and characters with the appeal of stepping on rusted nails.

      "While We Sleep" was a swing and a miss of a horror movie. And if you, like me, do enjoy horror movies, then do yourself a mighty favor and stay well clear of this stinker. It simply isn't worth the time, money or effort.

      My rating of "While We Sleep" lands on a one out of ten stars. This is definitely one of the worst and most boring horror movies I have had the misfortune of suffering through.
      1bajaharley

      Ignorance is bliss

      Another ignorant movie that has many scenes which are spoken in a foreign language, obviously important information to the movie but all they put for a subtitle is, "speaking foreign language". So you go through half the movie not knowing what is going on, unless you speak every language out there that is. Morons!
      1dianereneew

      Not in English

      Movie started out well enough - good production value, interesting story. Was enjoying until about 10 minutes in when there was an entire scene where the actors were all speaking Ukrainian, with no English subtitles. Since I don't speak Ukrainian I had to stop watching. Very disappointing.
      1declanfoyle

      Waste of time

      Don't watch it, storyline is awful and acting and production is atrocious.
      3ryanehli

      Slow moving, mostly boring, ending gets better

      Only the last 30 minutes is slightly scary. The majority of the first hour is mostly boring, has a weak plot & wastes lots of time getting to the good parts.

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      • Trivia
        Directed by Andrej Sekula, Cinematographer of Quintin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction" and "Reservoir" Dogs".
      • Goofs
        Nina is performing nystagmys (=follow the pen with your eyes) test. She tells Cora to move her eyes to the left while moving the pen to Cora's right and then vice versa.

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      • Release date
        • October 1, 2021 (United States)
      • Countries of origin
        • United States
        • Ukraine
      • Language
        • English
      • Also known as
        • Поки ми спимо
      • Production companies
        • Cinemaday
        • NN Film P
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      • Budget
        • $8,500,000 (estimated)
      • Gross worldwide
        • $7,901
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      • Runtime
        1 hour 32 minutes
      • Color
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      • Aspect ratio
        • 2.39:1

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