Looking for an escape from her recurring nightmares, 18-year-old Sarah submits to a university sleep study, but soon realizes she's become the conduit to a frightening new discovery.
Criminal psychologist Kate Fuller is assigned to the murder of a man who has seemingly been strangled in his sleep by his wife and the only witness is their eight-year-old daughter, Sophie. As Kate digs into the mystery of an ancient demon which kills people in their sleep, she experiences the same petrifying symptoms as all previous victims and spirals through a chilling nightmare to save herself and Sophie before she dares fall asleep again.
Eight people experience sleep paralysis, a condition which leaves them unable to move, speak or react.
Kate Bowman (Jocelin Donahue) is an average social worker who, after the sudden death of her twin sister, is investigating the mysterious deaths of other people who died in their sleep. Shortly before their deaths, the victims all reported a supernatural force that appeared to them while they were suffering from sleep paralysis. When Kate investigates further into the case, she opens herself up to the creature's wrath and soon finds herself and her family suffering from an ancient evil.
A man finds himself trapped inside his own nightmare with a malevolent entity and must wake up before it's too late
As Liz struggles with nyctophobia (fear of the dark), a form of anxiety disorder that causes sleeping issues, she desperately tries to fall asleep by entering her “inner world” where she can access her happy childhood memories. However, she ultimately becomes trapped in a time loop of sorts in her “lucid dream” world and encounters her nightmare, Dark Figure, who appears in various forms and shapes as a clown. The time loop pushes her deeper into her lucid dream world, forcing her to reach her subconscious world where she meets her worst nightmare, the original form of Dark Figure.
A student researching sleep paralysis slips into a lucid nightmare.
The life of Krister has become an unending nightmare, ever since his wife's death. There seems to be no respite for this man, tormented by the errors of his past and held prisoner by a grim daily existence.
After an excessive night, Mafalda e Filipe return home. When they fall asleep, something sinister awakens.
A woman is plagued by constant nightmares after moving into a large, suspiciously cheap apartment. The apartment’s terrible secret soon reveals itself through her dreams.
Trapped in a recurring cycle of sleep paralysis, a man desperately searches for a way to break free.
A man believes a dark entity is attacking him while he sleeps.
A young woman comes face to face with her sleep-paralysis demon, defeating it once and for all.
Eyewitnesses across the globe describe encountering the same evil entity.
A neuroscientist tortured by sleep paralysis goes to extreme lengths to test his controversial device that could either reverse paralysis or kill the patient.
After confronting her fiancé, Paul, in a cheap motel, Betty discovers the horrifying secret that has kept him from sleeping for days.
A troubled young woman with a disturbing past goes to see a counselor about her night terrors, ones involving a shadowy figure that attempts every night to break into her home.
A gifted college freshman comes of age, stumbles upon the bizarre allure of a clandestine theatre club and falls in love with her sleep paralysis demon, while the weight of caring for her ailing mother casts a shadow over her blossoming journey of self-discovery.
When a girl who's afraid of the dark gets a visit from a sinister fiend from her nightmares.
"Sleep Paralysis" dives in to the little-known phenomenon of the same name. Affected people from different cultures tell of their frightening experiences, while scientists try to find explanations.