Tyro writer-director Allen Wolf’s thriller
In My Sleep has a terrific premise, if not a completely original one. It recalls Dean Koontz’s 1990 best-seller
The Bad Place in its tale of a parasomniac -- an individual who not only sleepwalks, but regularly commits a series of nocturnal actions that he cannot remember the next morning, and naturally becomes implicated in a homicide.
Philip Winchester stars as Marcus, a bleached-blond, barrel-chested Southern California masseuse with a Calvin Klein model’s face, who spends much of the film strutting around with his shirt off; he resembles nothing so much as a body-waxed Ken doll. He’s been saddled ...
Released:
2008
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
105 mins