Short Film: The Sleep Watcher (2023)

Spoilery Synopsis

A girl has a nightmare about a phone call on an old rotary phone. She can’t move and hears someone breathing heavily on the phone. The next night, it happens again, but this time, she also sees someone in her room. The creature then turns into a mirror, and things get even weirder.

Is this just a dream?

Commentary

It looks really good– very dreamlike and weird. We don’t get much in the way of explanation, but as far as experiencing someone else’s dreams go, this is really well done. The quiet bits and the parts with the narration work well together, and the quality of the narration is especially good.