Sleeping with Demons

Dead Awake

September 2016 •English

Kate Bowman (Jocelin Donahue) is an average social worker who, after the sudden death of her twin sister, is investigating the mysterious deaths of other people who died in their sleep. Shortly before their deaths, the victims all reported a supernatural force that appeared to them while they were suffering from sleep paralysis. When Kate investigates further into the case, she opens herself up to the creature's wrath and soon finds herself and her family suffering from an ancient evil.

Nightmare

September 2022 •English

A man finds himself trapped inside his own nightmare with a malevolent entity and must wake up before it's too late

Deep Sleep

May 2022 •English

After a big night out partying a young man comes home only to have his worst nightmare ever.

In the Darkness

October 2021 •English

A man's life is disrupted when he begins to suffer from sleep paralysis.

You Cannot Move

Invalid date •Spanish

Kira finds it difficult to wake up, as sleep paralysis and psychological trauma from her childhood keep her in an endless cycle of nightmares.

Catalina

December 2016 •English

Young college student, Catalina (played by Kara Saadet Schwarz), begins to experience extremely disturbing cases of sleep paralysis which may have rooted from an unsolved, brutal death in her family.

Bedbound

December 2020 •English

A grief-stricken young woman, plagued by sleep paralysis and the mysterious beings that haunt her visions, finds that she has more demons to face than just those lurking in her bedroom.

The Foot of the Bed

October 2024 •English

A man believes a dark entity is attacking him while he sleeps.

Eidolon

November 2020 •English

A girl ventures into a graveyard and brings home an unexpected guest.

Shut Eye

October 2020 •English

Anxious and unstable after removing herself from a money-grubbing rehab facility, a recovering addict isolates herself in a nearby rental home while she gets her life on track. Haunted by episodes of sleep paralysis and visions of silhouetted demons, she scores an Ambien from the strange property manager in order to get a good night's rest. When the episodes intensify and town secrets come to light, she's certain the haunting forces aren't only in her mind.

Alp

October 2016 •English

After a traumatic experience, Chris comes home to confront his past. but soon finds himself prey to a Demon who taunts him through sleep paralysis.

Nyctophobia

May 2024 •English

As Liz struggles with nyctophobia (fear of the dark), a form of anxiety disorder that causes sleeping issues, she desperately tries to fall asleep by entering her “inner world” where she can access her happy childhood memories. However, she ultimately becomes trapped in a time loop of sorts in her “lucid dream” world and encounters her nightmare, Dark Figure, who appears in various forms and shapes as a clown. The time loop pushes her deeper into her lucid dream world, forcing her to reach her subconscious world where she meets her worst nightmare, the original form of Dark Figure.

Imóvel

May 2023 •Portuguese

Paralyzed

October 2012 •English

After confronting her fiancé, Paul, in a cheap motel, Betty discovers the horrifying secret that has kept him from sleeping for days.

Kanashibara

April 2007 •English

In the wake of his girlfriend's death, a man's sense of the real and the illusory world begins to blur when he is visited nightly by hallucinatory representations of his depression in the form of a Succubus.

Marianne: The Ghost Inside

November 2011 •Swedish

The life of Krister has become an unending nightmare, ever since his wife's death. There seems to be no respite for this man, tormented by the errors of his past and held prisoner by a grim daily existence.

The Nightmare

June 2015 •English

Eight people experience sleep paralysis, a condition which leaves them unable to move, speak or react.

Paralys

October 2016 •English

A sleepy Sunday afternoon in an apartment. A woman dozes off in front of the TV. When she wakes up she finds herself in a kind of limbo between dream and reality. And in the periphery a dark figure is moving towards her.

The Old Hag Syndrome

Invalid date •English

As children, Rheanna and Annette are happy. However, after an evening of ghost stories and games with their friend Tara, what started as innocent fun soon turns into a nightmare. Rheanna, the youngest is murdered by the Old Hag Syndrome, leaving both Annette and her mother Pamela scarred. An older Annette, desperate to be closer to her mentally unstable mother, becomes an intern at the psychiatric hospital where her mother resides. After a number of paranormal encounters, some resulting in mysterious deaths, Annette becomes convinced that the Old Hag Syndrome is supernatural rather than psychological threat. The haunting and death of Pamela and the haunting of Tara's only daughter, pushes Annette to fight this creature before more lives are lost. As Annette is plunged into her own personal nightmare, the forces of evil conspire against her as she prepares to make her final stand, with the help of both hardened skeptic, Alex and the man of faith, Tumeric.

Paralysis

April 2016 •English

Struggling with the pressures of homophobia when her partner is taken away by a hateful mother, a young gay woman struggles to cope with the traumas and anxieties of her life. Her dreams descend, taking the shape of shadows which reach into her life.