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- 2012
- Not Rated
- MPI Media Group
- 1 h 42 m
- 2012
- Not Rated
- MPI Media Group
- 1 h 42 m
Summary A seemingly normal door man indulges his dark side in ways that cost the tenants of the building their health, happiness and sanity.
Directed By: Jaume Balagueró
Written By: Alberto Marini
- 2012
- Not Rated
- MPI Media Group
- 1 h 42 m
- 2012
- Not Rated
- MPI Media Group
- 1 h 42 m
Sleep Tight
70
7.1
Where to Watch
Summary A seemingly normal door man indulges his dark side in ways that cost the tenants of the building their health, happiness and sanity.
Directed By: Jaume Balagueró
Written By: Alberto Marini
Where to Watch
Top Cast
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
70
73% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
27% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
70
73% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
27% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
This is a crime story with little to no interest in the who or the why, but only the what and the how. It's a reverse-procedural, tracking not the solution of a crime, but all of its awful particulars.
Sleep Tight is a nifty little thriller that dances on the boundary between plausible and preposterous.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 35 User Ratings
7.1
77% Positive
27 Ratings
27 Ratings
14% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
9% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 35 User Ratings
7.1
77% Positive
27 Ratings
27 Ratings
14% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
9% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
Sleep Tight, first of all, is a nifty new Euro-horror film, with several wicked-cold Hitchcockian twists, that shows off the range and craft of terrific Spanish director Jaume Balagueró, co-founder of the "[Rec]" franchise (still the gold standard in found-footage horror).
Sleep Tight is a creepy - but highly effective and superbly made - horror movie from Spain in which the monster is spine-tinglingly human.
The states get higher with every breadcrumb Luis Tosar's creep lays down, and the film derives sometimes remarkable corkscrew tension from watching him being backed into a corner.
A great many New Yorkers are rightfully indebted to doormen, but Jaume Balagueró's nasty little thriller offers a decidedly darker perspective.
There's a Polanskian black comedy buried in here somewhere; a sassy neighbor girl who knows too much hints at the right direction, which is never fully explored.
Sleep Tight is a lean and tight thriller. Not a horror movie in the strictest sense, more **** in execution. It's really Rear Window meets Psycho but without the follow-through. Cesar sneaks into people's apartments at night, since he's the concierge and has the keys for every one of them, and does stuff to mess with them and interfere with their lives. The film seems to ask questions about what a protagonist is in a story told this way, but I'm not sure it ever becomes more than superficial. The tension and the audience relation with Cesar when he's trapped in a woman's apartment would seem to indicate we are on the wrong side (what does that mean? do we actually feel bad for Cesar?).
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A terrible and no-sense movie. There is bare action, one setting, 0% horror and 3% thriller and 0 scare. Grossly and typically a really bad movie. Definetly a 0.
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Production Company
Canal+ España,
Castelao Producciones,
Coser y Cantar,
Cubica,
Elisa Salinas,
Filmax Entertainment,
Generalitat de Catalunya - Institut Català de les Indústries Culturals (ICIC),
ICF Institut Català de Finances,
Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA),
Ono,
Televisió de Catalunya (TV3),
Televisión Española (TVE)
Release Date Oct 26, 2012
Duration 1 h 42 m
Rating Not Rated
Tagline Someone is Watching Over YOU.
Awards
Gaudí Awards
• 6 Wins & 15 Nominations
Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain
• 4 Nominations
Chicago International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
