Dream Eater

The first movie from Eli Roth's new production studio, The Horror Section, was Jimmy and Stiggs, a jaw dropping descent into goopy, neon madness. It was a perfect midnight movie that nonetheless played the multiplex. That was all it took to convince me that seeking out the studio's films moving forward would be worthwhile. Roth himself has a couple lined up, and with titles like Ice Cream Man and Don't Go In That House, Bitch!, they're certain to be more akin to Thanksgiving than last year's calamitous Borderlands.

In the meantime, they're tiding us over with a few releases from smaller filmmakers. Enter Dream Eater, from directors Alex Lee Williams, Mallory Drumm, and Jay Drakulic. Williams and Drumm co-star as Alex and Mallory, a couple who travel to a remote, snowy cabin with the idea that a week-long change of scenery may help Alex's increasingly disturbing and violent sleepwalking problem (Drakulic also has a small role as a TV presenter). As one would expect given that you're watching a horror film, this just makes it worse. He sits up in the middle of the night muttering nigh indecipherable gibberish, runs out into the snow barefoot, and returns hours later with black...stuff on his hands and clothing, either confused about what happened, or adamant that nothing has.

Read my full review on Pop Culture Maniacs.