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Sleep Tight: Not Bloody Likely After Watching This Trailer

By TK | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (10)

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Egads. Here’s the trailer for Sleep Tight, directed by Spanish film maker Jaume Balaguero, best known for co-writing/directing one of my favorite horror movies of the last ten years, [Rec]. While Balaguero stumbled a bit with [Rec 2], he looks to be returning to some genuinely chilling and nerve-wrackingly scary material with Sleep Tight. The film is about an apartment complex doorman who can only achieve something close to happiness by making others suffer, and he silently, subtly takes it out on the residents of the building.

It’s creepy as fuck. Note to editors: watch this for how to make an effective trailer, please.

OK, sure, it looks like he recycled the set from the [Rec] films. But damn if that wasn’t an macabre and affecting little trailer. I’m officially interested.









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Comments

I'm curious.

Posted by: Nicolae at April 27, 2011 12:13 AM

Very intriguing....

Posted by: Diableri at April 27, 2011 2:42 AM

Hmm. A sadistic doorman at an apartment complex.

I shall refrain from saying things like, "Did the director get surveillance video from any random apartment building in New York?"

Oops.

Posted by: The Wanderer at April 27, 2011 9:23 AM

I hope they named him Carlton.

Posted by: ed newman at April 27, 2011 10:19 AM

Didn't "Seinfeld" do this? I think "Seinfeld" did this.

Posted by: , at April 27, 2011 11:32 AM

Maybe I'm just thick, but that didn't seem all that scary. Maybe this is intentional, but I just don't get what the doorman's aims are. He clearly drugs the girl, and then stands over her bed at night? With a knife? I suppose the director's motive was to imply the terrible things that are going to happen, but it was so vague that, at least to me, I was left with no inkling of what the danger was. The whole video came off as a grimier Spanish version of Twilight, what with the creepy guy breaking into the bedroom of the hot lady and watching her sleep.

Honestly, if the story is "Creepy misanthropist tries to make life a living hell for those around him without them noticing", that actually really sounds like the perfect Adam Sandler movie. You could easily turn that concept into a dark comedy about a prankster jackanapes who does those sorts of things, and maybe gets the tables turned on him by a relentless and unknown former victim. Just play yakety sax over the trailer, and speed that sucker up about 1.5X its current speed. Comedy Gold.

Posted by: StoatCat at April 27, 2011 11:33 AM

I go the opposite way of StoatCat: the more I have to imagine, the scarier it is, because I can imagine a LOT.

The more a movie spells out for me, the less interested I am. It's the quiet psychological get under your skin shit that's truly scary.

Anyway, the character's motivation made me think of the bad guy from Saw. Sorry about that, but it did. Still, this DID look interesting. But I realized watching the trailer that I have a hard time with scary movies with subtitles. In psychological thrillers, I feel like I have to watch every tiny thing on the screen. When I'm reading in addition to that, it's a bit distracting. Normally, I don't mind subtitles at all, in fact I tend to use them even when something's in English. I'm very visual. But in English, I can look at the screen and not worry AS much about the subtitles. In another language, I have to worry about it or I won't know what's going on.

Anyone else have that problem?

Anyway, I'd probably see this.

Posted by: Snuggiepants at April 27, 2011 12:01 PM

smokin and i just watched "to let" last night on instant.
i didn't realize it had rec ties until just now.

what is it with this guy and creepy apartment buildings?

Posted by: gp at April 27, 2011 12:21 PM

Fair enough, Snuggiepants. There just didn't seem to be enough there for the terror-prone parts of my brain to latch onto. I get the effect you got when I watch a trailer like the one for The Strangers. That one scared the Flying Spaghetti Monster out of me.

Posted by: StoatCat at April 27, 2011 3:13 PM

Anyone else have that problem?

Anyway, I'd probably see this.

Posted by: Snuggiepants at April 27, 2011 12:01 PM

A little late to the party, but yes, I am the same way. I leave the captions on even when watching TV as it helps my understanding (maybe I'm just getting old, but my last hearing test turned out fine). But when I watched Pan's Labyrinth, for example, I was so busy taking in all the glorious imagery that I tended to miss some of the dialogue. In fact, I had to watch a lot of it twice. So you're not alone, Snuggie.

Posted by: Uriah Creep at April 27, 2011 8:51 PM