Waking Nightmare (2023) Movie Review

Waking Nightmare – Movie Review

Director: Steve Craig, Brian Farmer

Writer: Brian Farmer (Screenplay)

Cast

Shelley Regner (Pitch Perfect)
David Naughton (An American Werewolf in London)
Diane Franklin (Better Off Dead…)
Jamison Newlander (Bone Tomahawk)
Brian Tyler Cohen (Knucklebones)

Plot: Jordan suffered manic episodes after the loss of her friend. Her mother has a family doctor prescribe her Ambien to help with her sleepwalking. As time goes on, Jordan has issues remembering what happened.

Runtime: 1 Hour 12 Minutes

There may be spoilers in the rest of the review

Story: Waking Nightmare starts when Jordan (Regner) returns home to try and recover from her problems. She finds herself going through a series of nightmares about her best friend who died. Her mother Danielle (Franklin) is trying to support her with her needs.

When residents of the neighbourhood start getting killed, Jordan becomes a suspect. However, she can’t remember doing anything wrong as her nightmares start getting worse. Can she figure out the truth before more people end up dead?

Verdict on Waking Nightmare

Waking Nightmare is a mystery horror following a young woman struggling with sleepwalking and nightmares. She can’t shake problems and medication doesn’t seem to be improving. However, things get worse when people start turning up dead.

This is a horror movie that gets to explore the nightmares of sleepwalking and dealing with a close loss. It shows Jordan feeling guilty for something out of her control and throwing in a slasher side plot to keep things interesting. However, not too much of the movie feels as connected as it could. We seem to get thrown into a supernatural connection with the nightmares. While on the other hand, we get caught up in the middle of a slasher movie that never has any suspense.

Final Thoughts – Waking Nightmare tries to put too much into the story, causing the scares to fall flat.