Don’t Sleep does not have any redeemable qualities and the movie just spirals out of control as it progresses. “Rick Bieber – whose fingerprints are all over this movie as he wrote, directed, and produced it – has created a jumbled mess. It’s not a lazy directorial effort, as Bieber does invest in mood, hitting a few sweet spots of grim activity as Zach is confronted by his nightmare enemies, even pummeled by one during an attack inside his car.” Brian Orndorf, “Bieber ( The Fifth Quarter) isn’t a sharp horror mastermind, trying to get by on loud scoring by Andy Mendelson and louder sound effects, which try too hard to jolt viewers, making authentic scares few and far between in Don’t Sleep. Instead there’s just one familiar jolt after another.” Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times An opening epigraph from Nietzsche about loneliness and demons suggests a deeper character study that never materializes. “But even with a solid cast at his disposal, Bieber can’t make Don’t Sleep anything more than a disconnected compendium of time-tested shock tactics. ![]() Too bad a great topic does not necessarily make a great film.” Simon Abrams, Don‘ t Sleep could have been a great horror movie. “Bieber never stops announcing his intentions to take on heavy subjects, whether it’s in the way that this characters baldly over-state their concerns without elaborating on them, or the way that his generic boogeymen antagonists allude to traumas without ever convincingly carrying them out. Once the threat of psychotic behavior turns into the possibility of demonic possession, Zach is confronted with a horrific reality he never could before have imagined…
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