Marriage is all about trust, about knowing the person sleeping next to you and knowing you’re safe.
But what happens when that trust is broken — when out of nowhere you realize you don’t know this person, and they might hurt you one day?That is the premise of “Sleep,” the feature debut by Jason Yu, former assistant director to Bong Joon-ho, and a new voice in Korean horror cinema.
Just like Wes Craven terrorized our dreams with “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” Yu’s “Sleep” haunts your waking moments.
This is a claustrophobic and tense thriller that uses small locations and a small yet perfectly used cast to craft a thrilling and heartfelt love story disguised as a ghost story that definitely keeps you awake.Soo-jin (Jung Yu-mi) and Hyun-su (Lee Sun-kyun) live in an apartment with paper-thin walls.
He works as a successful actor, she is an office…
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