Film Review – Sleepwalker

Writer/director Brandon Auman tries to turn his 2024 short film into a feature-length horror endeavor in “Sleepwalker,” hoping to expand on an original idea that only ran seven minutes. The picture concerns a different type of haunting, with Auman looking to creep into the deep recesses of motherly guilt and fear to inspire a terror show highlighting a woman’s efforts to battle the trickery of her brain and the destruction of her family. The writing has something to follow in the processing of extraordinary pain, but “Sleepwalker” is more of a “Twilight Zone” episode with increasingly tedious jump scares and acting that can’t quite sell the frightmare developing over the run time. The helmer struggles to keep the movie scary and meaningful, and the stretchmarks of a laborious adaptation challenge show throughout the viewing experience. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com