Parasomnia (2008) on Netflix
Laura Baxter sleeps her life away in a hospital, waking only briefly. Art student Danny Sloan falls in love with her; in the next room lies Byron Volpe, a hypnotist and murderer.
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Plot summary
Laura Baxter has parasomnia, a condition that makes her sleep her life away and wake only briefly. She stays at a psychiatric hospital, where Danny Sloan, an art student, visits his friend Billy. Billy points him toward the psycho ward, and Danny sees Laura asleep in the room beside Byron Volpe, a hypnotist convicted of murdering his wife and kept hooded and restrained so that nobody sees his eyes. Danny keeps visiting and falls in love with her, and learns that a clinic run by Dr. Bhyle wants her for experiments.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Parasomnia (2008)
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- William Malone wrote the screenplay for Parasomnia while he was working on the Masters of Horror episode "Fair-Haired Child".
- Parasomnia was financed by director William Malone and his friends, and filmed on the same stage where Malone had directed House on Haunted Hill (1999).
- The imagery in Parasomnia was inspired by surrealist artist Zdzisław Beksiński and the horror film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920).
