The Sleep Curse

2017

Suspense/Thriller

Horror

1h 42m

"The King of Gore" Herman Yau returns with a gruesome tale that follows the cursed life of a young translator who collaborated with the enemy during Japan's wartime occupation. He is tormented by guilt after turning his back on the comfort women who were mercilessly murdered. Forty-five years later, his sin comes back to haunt his son, a professor specializing in sleeping disorders who begins a terrible experiment to exorcise his father's ghost. (letterboxd)

Directed by:

Herman Yau

Written by:

Erica Lee

Starring:

Anthony Chau-Sang Wong

Ka Tung Lam Ikki Funaki Michelle Wai Jojo Goh Bryant Mak Chi Lok

Genres:

Suspense/Thriller, Horror

AKA:

Shi mian

Countries:

China, Hong Kong

Languages:

Japanese, Cantonese

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The Sleep Curse

2017

Suspense/Thriller

Horror

1h 42m

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moraesfelipe

Rated 17 Dec 2017

Castration, cannibalism and gore in its last 15 minutes to finish a deep dive into Chinese colaborationism during Japan ocupation in WWII through hereditary curse that haunts characters in 1990 so they never sleep. The very doctor that tries to heal the curse in a former girlfriend happens to be researching a way welive without sleeping and is the son of Chinese collaborator who had to choose between two Japanese girls - the unwanted left him with a curse that turned him into a bloody zombie.

Rated 17 Dec 2017

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