Sleep: A Korean suspenseful thriller with twisted plots

If you haven’t watched ‘Sleep’, a South Korean thriller then you’re missing out on everything!

Directed by Jason Yu, this South Korean twisted dark movie explores the consequences of sleepwalking on a young couple who is expecting a baby soon.

Before its release, the movie had been a talk since last year as it had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival’s Critics’ Week 2023.

The horror with twisted plots which simply follows a young couple whose lives are turned upside down when the husband sleepwalks is just more than that.

The movie features Yu-mi Jeong and Sun-kyun Lee begins with a pregannt wife complaining to her husband how he was pointing at a corner of house and blabber something. She assumes he is sleep walking and takes his new habit casually.

But his sleep walking does not end here, other night he tries to eat everything raw from the fridge and tries to jump off from the building. This is when the couple takes the sleepwalking serious and consult a doctor who gives the husband medicines and safety majors (hiding away knives closing all the windows tightly) as precaution.

Relaxed that the medicines have started working on the husband, the wife sleeps peacefully until she is awakened by a noise and she does not find her husband by her side.

She went to drawing room where she sa him peacefully walking and entering his room. Again relaxed that he has not harmed anything or himself, just about to return to her room, the woman finds something dreadful in her fridge, hinting its not just a sleep walking habit.

The next scene takes us to their newly born daughter and the tension how she will protect her and her daughter from her sleepwalking husband.

The breathless suspense thriller’s seems plot is both simple and spellbinding: how someone can suddenly start sleep walking? How a sleepwalker can transform into a different personality, endangering the well-being of their child.

If you want to watch a movie full of suspenseful moments, with a gripping story offering a totally unique experience then Sleep is for you.