Written And Directed by Brandon Auman
Sarah: "I haven't sleepwalked since I was a kid but it's never been like this."
In another timeline, Hayden Panettiere would've been in Scream 7 but in this timeline however, she was in this tepid horror thriller that was a mash up of domestic family drama and not so well executed scares.
The movie started with frazzled separated mother, Sarah Pangborn (Panettiere). She had her son Holden (Laird LaCoste) but was coping with both her daughter Aimee (Corinne Sweeney) and estranged husband Michael (Justin Chatwin). Both are in a coma. Both are haunting Sarah's dreams.
In flashbacks we learned that Sarah and Michael had a volatile marriage with the former being abused by the latter. Sarah eventually decided to leave Michael and the latter retaliated by trying to take their children. This resulted in both Michael and Aimee being in comas.
As the movie went along, Sarah wanted to pull the plug on Michael and fell out with the latter's sister, Joelle (Mischa Barton). Sarah was also living with her mother, Gloria (Beverly D'Angelo) and succumbing to sleepwalking, which ended in the latter's death.
I'll be honest, the more this movie went on, the more exhausting and clichéd it got. We saw supporting characters die, Michael being an evil force, wanting to own Sarah even in death and then, the movie ended on a drab note.
- It's a remake of a 2024 short movie from the same writer/director.
- There's a use of medium character but she didn't make it out of the movie alive.
- Joelle was also seeing Michael in her dreams but the movie didn't do anything with it.
- Chronology: Present day America.
I wanted to like Sleepwalker (2026) but it's such a lifeless, dull slightly of a movie with everyone practically sleepwalking through the whole thing. Don't bother with this one.
Rating: 4 out of 10
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