Sleep / Obsession
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The episode discusses the new wave of horror films, focusing on the film 'Sleep' and its themes of sleepwalking and psychological disorders.
A recent sort of “new wave” movement in horror films is discarding old ideas that were based only on scaring you. I offer two examples. My first example is called Sleep. It’s the debut feature of Korean writer and director Jason Yu, telling of a young wife, played by Jung Yu-mi, who notices that her husband, played by Lee Sun-kyun, is having increasingly alarming sleepwalking episodes, at one point eating raw meat from the fridge and then trying to crawl out of an upstairs window. A psychiatrist diagnoses him with REM Sleep Behavior Disorder and prescribes medication. But it doesn’t get…
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