SLEEP U.S. Trailer: Bizarre Sleep Patterns Terrorize a Couple in Korean Psychological Thriller

South Korea never runs out of pure, nail-biting, suspenseful cinema. First-time director Jason Yu, who’s worked with Korean cinematic giants Boon Joon-ho and Lee Chang-dong, brings the thrills to a newlywed couple’s existence in his feature debut, Sleep. It stars Jung Yu-mi (Train To Busan) as a woman whose husband’s (Parasite’s Lee Sun-kyun) constant sleepwalking reaches terrifying levels. Following its Cannes and TIFF screenings year, it will finally be released stateside in theaters and on digital September 27 from Magnolia Pictures’ genre label Magnet Releasing.

Here’s the official synopsis:

SLEEP follows newlyweds Hyun-su (Lee Sun-kyun, PARASITE) and Soo-jin (Jung Yu-mi), whose domestic bliss is disrupted when Hyun-su begins speaking in his sleep, ominously stating, “Someone’s inside.” From that night on, whenever he falls asleep, Hyun-su transforms into someone else, with no recollection of what happened the night before. Overwhelmed with anxiety that he may hurt himself or their young family, Soo-jin can barely sleep because of this irrational fear. Despite treatment, Hyun-su’s sleepwalking only intensifies, and Soo-jin begins to feel that her unborn child may be in danger.

Check out the trailer and poster below.

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