The notion that all the best horror is deeply rooted in reality is certainly debatable. After all, sometimes it’s the alienness of a horror movie that gives it power, forcing us to fit its strangeness into our everyday lives in order to better explain the mysteries of both. But if there’s any truth to the aphorism at all, then Sleep, one of last year’s most underrated horror movies and a new arrival on Hulu, seems like the perfect argument for it.
Sleep follows a young couple just on the verge of having their first child. One night, Soo-jin (Jung Yu-mi) wakes up to find her husband, Hyeon-soo (the late Lee Sun-kyun), sitting up on their bed and muttering a phrase. While she attempts to understand him, she quickly realizes that he’s suddenly, out of the blue, started to sleepwalk. After a few nights of the couple simply trying to ignore
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