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This could have been a good film. Some nicely creepy moments (despite the more than slightly done-to-death plotline), and the kid actor plays her part well.

Unfortunately, she's in the minority; rarely have I seen such atrocious acting. From the pouting, barely intelligible female lead to the incongruously cockney priest, things go rapidly on a downward slope from early on, taking the whole thing from promisingly spooky into the realms of the ridiculous, not to mention predictable.

If it had been slightly cringier it could almost have been a spoof, but sadly it stops short of that point, resulting in a flat, boring waste of time. Sorry.

If you're having trouble sleeping, this is the movie to watch. Nothing even remotely scary happens and you couldn't care less about the characters. The demon was as lame as you get. Super Naturals were more scary.

I'd rather be possessed by the devil then watch this movie again. Acting bad. Terrible dialogue. Boring. Focused on Covergirl walking shots too much. Minutes go buy without a point. Nothing is explained. Ending was so bad our jaws dropped. Funny to make fun of but easily worst movie ever made lol.

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

Unbelievably lame, stupid waste of my time, thankfully it was free. Mostly in English, some parts are in Ukraine ( language they speak I have no idea) who knows if those parts were important to hear or not ???

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.

Enjoyed it. Some good scares, interesting effects, and a classic story. Yes, it's been done before but that's because it's fun to watch :-)

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.

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!

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.

Could barely understand the one main character. Was she drunk the whole time? She talked in some kind of weird slurred accent. As for the rest. BORING. And for God's sake, please get the little girl's teeth fixed.

So much sloppy staging, gee kid's in the hospital, you see her heart rate flatline...but gosh, no leeds r attached to her chest? Bad acting, boilerplate situations...yawn.

No pun intended - the movie has a low budget. And any movie that has an exorcism scene in it ... well it is like trying to recreate the werewolf transformation scene - although that has been done to a degree and quite successful. Still when you think Exorcism, there is only one movie that should come to mind.

Having said that, there is more to the movie than just a (small?) comparison to a classic horror movie. On the other hand, you may also just feel it is not worth your time, which I would also understand. But that does not take away anything from the effort and the at least decent story - not to mention that it does look good. Acting is also ok/decent ... and it has some interesting shockers and good effects ... so maybe you can give it a try (and watch the trailer to be certain beforehand)

Great story line and acting. Loved watching this as part of October horror month. Highly recommended.

If you're looking for something that has never been done before you'd better pass this title but if you are looking for a spooky story acceptable for audience of different age, then why not? This is not a multi-million blockbuster and there no sense to treat it as such. A mainstream movie with a classic plot. If you don't judge it by your high expectations but by what it really is supposed to be, you'll find it pretty fine.

Loved it! I couldn't understand the foreign language parts because closed caption fail to translate certain scenes, but I got the overall gist of it except for the very last scene. Can anyone tell me what was the very last conversation of the very last scene? Seems to have been in Ukrainian or Russian.