Before I Wake (Somnia) (2016)

Movies Viewed in 2024 (306 movies items)

" First Viewing Viewing Date: July 4th Via: Apple TV Plot: A couple adopt an orphaned child whose dreams - and nightmares - manifest physically as he sleeps. Rating: 6.2/10 Why Did I Watch It? After watching Gerald's Game, I felt I should catch up with another Mike Flanagan film I haven't seen yet."

Favorite Horror Films: 2016 (11 movies items)

" Directed by: Mike Flanagan Produced by: Sam Englebardt, William D. Johnson, and Trevor Macy Written by: Mike Flanagan and Jeff Howard Cinematography: Michael Fimognari Edited by: Mike Flanagan Music by: Andrew Grush, Danny Elfman, John Andrew Grush, and Taylor Stewart Distributed by: Netflix and Intrepid Pictures"

Horror films I've seen. (86 movies items)

"Mike always knows how to make me cry."

An average movie

“To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since it was directed by Mike Flanagan and since it was available on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, even though Flanagan might be one of the most interesting up-and-coming directors in the horror genre, this movie was seriously disappointing though. I mean, there were a couple of interesting ideas but it is always difficult for me to care when they mix such interesting and real issues like trauma and insomnia with the most basic and generic fantastic tropes of the horror genre. As a result, you get such scenes during which a therapist would make the most interesting remarks of the whole movie about the nature of dreams but it was completely discarded and they focused instead on some random gener” read more

Films Watched in 2019 (116 movies items)

"13.11."

Watched in 2019 (87 movies items)

"June 11th, 2019"

Movies the giraffe watched in 2019: March (28 movies items)

"First viewing - March 7th I realized I hadn't watched a movie all week and figured I should fix that. Before I Wake wound up being better than I'd anticipated, but it's easily my least favorite of Mike Flanagan's films. There are some creepy moments along the way, and I thought it was an interesting way to look at how people deal with losing those who are closest to them. I found it rather amusing that about the time I started to wonder whether the central couple ever has to work there were sud"

BradWesley123's Movie Journal- August 2018 (27 movies items)

" Netflix- 1hr. 36min. First Viewing While I respect director Mike Flanagan's ambition, and his directorial talent, Before I Wake just never fully takes off. The ideas that the film toys with are interesting, enough so that they could've made an exceptional film. Unfortunately, the script struggles to juggle them, and underplays them to the point where portions of the film come across as lifeless. Things do get better in the last act, when the end game is revealed to be more humane and heartfelt "

Anautix' Movie Diary 2018 (163 movies items)

"07./08.09.2018 my rating: 7,0"

Movies Watched in 2018 (56 movies items)

"August 30th"

BAMF's January 2018 Cinejourney (34 movies items)

" Familiar Actors: Kate Bosworth Thomas Jane Jacob Tremblay Annabeth Gish Dash Mihok Lance E. Nichols and Scottie Thompson True Rating: 7.3/10 Body Count: 4"