Awoken (2020)

05/07/2020Horror, Thriller, Mystery1h 27m
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Never Sleep Again

Overview

Karla, a young medical student, is trying to cure her brother, Blake, from a terminal sleep illness called Fatal Familial Insomnia, where you are unable to sleep until you die. On her quest to treat him, a more sinister reason for his condition is revealed.

Top Billed Cast

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    Erik Thomson

    Robert

  2. Cast 1

    Sara West

    Karla

  3. Cast 1

    Benson Jack Anthony

    Blake

  4. Cast 1

    Matt Crook

    Patrick

  5. Robert MacPherson

    Doctor Mulcahy

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    Joe Romeo

    Martin

  7. Cast 1

    Adam Ovadia

    Christopher

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    Felicia Tassone

    Angela

  9. Amelia Douglass

    Alice

Awoken co-writer/director Daniel J. Phillips had a choice. He could have made a movie about demonic possession, or a film about insomnia. Now, stories about people who are possessed by demons are about as dime a dozen as those about people who can’t sleep; the question is, how many films are there that deal with fatal familial insomnia (FFI)? Phillips chose poorly, to say the least. FFI is very rare, but that’s no reason to treat it lightly (quite the opposite, I’d say). I’d never heard of it before; it took me watching Awoken to learn about it, which is good — on the other hand, I still ha...

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Original LanguageEnglish 

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