Eight people experience sleep paralysis, a condition which leaves them unable to move, speak or react.
Forrest Borie
as Self
Korinne Wilson
Andrew Schwarz
as Ghost
Johnny Depp
as Self (archive footage)
Jack can't sleep... and their sleepless nights are only getting worse. When Jack's sleep paralysis demon invites themselves into the bedroom, things continue to spiral out as The Demon's game to keep Jack awake only becomes more and more obscure.
"Sleep Paralysis" dives in to the little-known phenomenon of the same name. Affected people from different cultures tell of their frightening experiences, while scientists try to find explanations.
A struggling filmmaker accepts an unpaid job from a one-hit-wonder but soon comes to regret her decision when the artist exhibits increasingly disturbing behavior.
One man's descent into madness as he tries to discover what comes for him in the middle of the night.
As children, Rheanna and Annette are happy. However, after an evening of ghost stories and games with their friend Tara, what started as innocent fun soon turns into a nightmare. Rheanna, the youngest is murdered by the Old Hag Syndrome, leaving both Annette and her mother Pamela scarred. An older Annette, desperate to be closer to her mentally unstable mother, becomes an intern at the psychiatric hospital where her mother resides. After a number of paranormal encounters, some resulting in mysterious deaths, Annette becomes convinced that the Old Hag Syndrome is supernatural rather than psychological threat. The haunting and death of Pamela and the haunting of Tara's only daughter, pushes Annette to fight this creature before more lives are lost. As Annette is plunged into her own personal nightmare, the forces of evil conspire against her as she prepares to make her final stand, with the help of both hardened skeptic, Alex and the man of faith, Tumeric.
Kira finds it difficult to wake up, as sleep paralysis and psychological trauma from her childhood keep her in an endless cycle of nightmares.
Looking for an escape from her recurring nightmares, 18-year-old Sarah submits to a university sleep study, but soon realizes she's become the conduit to a frightening new discovery.
Stu Craven sits down for an interview with a paranormal investigator team, who aim to understand and help him solve his ghostly problem...
As Liz struggles with nyctophobia (fear of the dark), a form of anxiety disorder that causes sleeping issues, she desperately tries to fall asleep by entering her “inner world” where she can access her happy childhood memories. However, she ultimately becomes trapped in a time loop of sorts in her “lucid dream” world and encounters her nightmare, Dark Figure, who appears in various forms and shapes as a clown. The time loop pushes her deeper into her lucid dream world, forcing her to reach her subconscious world where she meets her worst nightmare, the original form of Dark Figure.
A young woman comes face to face with her sleep-paralysis demon, defeating it once and for all.
A sleepy Sunday afternoon in an apartment. A woman dozes off in front of the TV. When she wakes up she finds herself in a kind of limbo between dream and reality. And in the periphery a dark figure is moving towards her.
A man believes a dark entity is attacking him while he sleeps.
Through POV storytelling, Parasomnia follows a data analyst in the 90s whose solitary lifestyle has been derailed by sleep paralysis and constant nightmares. As the nightmares escalate it becomes clear that something is watching – and it's getting closer.
A girl ventures into a graveyard and brings home an unexpected guest.
A man finds himself trapped inside his own nightmare with a malevolent entity and must wake up before it's too late