Saw 'Slumber', being fond of horror regardless of budget (even if not my favourite genre) and being intrigued somewhat by the idea. Being behind on my film watching and reviewing, with a long to watch and review list that keeps getting longer, it took me a while to get round to watching it.Unfortunately, despite not reading any reviews purposefully before watching, am going to have to agree that 'Slumber' isn't too good, though not terrible. A film that started off good, but ran out of steam very quickly and rapidly got worse by a second half that makes one not want to keep watching. Never judge a film without seeing the whole thing and wanted to give 'Nails', so gave it a fair chance.'Slumber's' best assets were the first fifteen-twenty minutes, starting the film off on a promising, unsettling and atmospheric note that really does intrigue. Production values did have some eeriness and nowhere near as cheap as expected, and the music, which not the most memorable in the world, didn't detract from the atmosphere. The setting is effectively spooky and the acting was better than average, Sylvester McCoy and Honor Kneafsey giving the best performances.However, so much brings 'Slumber' down. The direction is so phoned in and pedestrian, one gets the sense that the director showed no interest in the film at all. Would have liked more chemistry between the actors, which can be put down to directing, tending to have interactions that are both static and awkward, and writing, which really doesn't flow, issues.Where 'Slumber' most underwhelms is the writing and story. The far too exposition-heavy writing is incredibly lazy, it's awkward in dialogue, very confused as a result of not tying things up or going into full detail and doesn't feel complete. The story suffers from a very limp pace after the first fifteen minutes and gets slower and slower until an interminably dragged out second half. It further suffers from feeling too much like a short film stretched out with a lot of useless padding, too many things that don't make sense or under-explained and tiresome repetition. The characters are nowhere near interesting enough, and the inconsistent and illogical motivations bring them down. For a film billed as a horror, there is very little interesting and nothing remotely scary. They are too few and are far too predictable, anaemic and weakly timed to make impact, with the dull pacing and obvious sound effects cheapening them significantly. 'Slumber' doesn't engage let alone thrill, the film started off very well but feels wasted by how quickly everything runs out of steam. The ending is an anti-climactic head-scratcher, like the script it feels incomplete and making sense of it was extremely difficult.Overall, mediocre but with good points that stop it from being worse. 4/10 Bethany Cox

I liked the idea of a horror movie based on sleep paralysis. It's completely different from nightmares while you're actually asleep and dreaming, so it's nice to see a new spin on it.Maggie Q is great as always. The other actors are decent. Child actors are pretty standard child actors (nothing spectacular). The story drags along a bit slowly for my tastes but it is acceptable for me. However, there are a lot of pitfalls in terms of common sense in this movie that it's not quite right. Not a movie I'd recommend specifically, but if someone was looking through some movies and asked me, I'd tell them I'd watch it. Not a bad movie, just not a good one either.SPOILER ALERTMy biggest criticism has to be the janitor and his father. It seems really randomly inserted and doesn't really quite fit in my opinion. They do not provide answers. They don't know more than what we all know. This is followed up by scenes where they're all just sitting there not doing anything. And the way the whole sequence happened with each individual's nightmares.. it just paints the family as incredibly weak willed and selfish. They even let a random stranger die instead of their kid.And in the end, they let the doctor get taken away into a mental hospital? You've got to be kidding me. She saves their kid and that's how they repay her?

It's A Good First Time Watch...Nothing Spectacular Or Out Of The Ordinary, Just What It Says " A sleep doctor tries to protect a family from a demon that feeds on people in their nightmares. The End!!! Oh And Drink Coffee Because You Might Slumber Off To Sleep!

Not many horrors made me feel goose bumps like this one. It gives some awkward feeling as if I am in that movie. Very disturbing stuff in a way that you'll hate it if you watch it late. Everything is great- acting, ambient, lights, sound. Music is exceptionally creepy just in the places where it should be. Film editors did the great montage. A must watch for every horror fan. Superb horror.