2011 - 92 mins. - Rated R
D: Omar Naim
C: Nick Stahl, Rose McGowan, Amy Smart, Ben Marten, Kim Grimaldi, Brian Lynner, Justin Marxen, James Serpento, Jack Mishler, Shane Simmons
A funeral home employee fakes his own death to see if anyone would attend. Two people show up - a junkie and his old high school sweetheart. However, it turns out he may very well indeed be dead and is stuck in between the world of the living and the dead.
Dead Awake is slow to start as it lays the basic foundation for the film's plot. Once that happens, Dead Awake leaves a variety of open ended questions that will be solved throughout the film. The search for those answers is what gives Dead Awake an intriguing quality to it. The balance between the supernatural, drama and mystery is what keeps things interesting. There also happens to be many vignettes scattered throughout that resonate.
D: Omar Naim
C: Nick Stahl, Rose McGowan, Amy Smart, Ben Marten, Kim Grimaldi, Brian Lynner, Justin Marxen, James Serpento, Jack Mishler, Shane Simmons
A funeral home employee fakes his own death to see if anyone would attend. Two people show up - a junkie and his old high school sweetheart. However, it turns out he may very well indeed be dead and is stuck in between the world of the living and the dead.
Dead Awake is slow to start as it lays the basic foundation for the film's plot. Once that happens, Dead Awake leaves a variety of open ended questions that will be solved throughout the film. The search for those answers is what gives Dead Awake an intriguing quality to it. The balance between the supernatural, drama and mystery is what keeps things interesting. There also happens to be many vignettes scattered throughout that resonate.
- 5/4/2011
- by Big Daddy aka Brandon Sites
- Big Daddy Horror Reviews - Interviews
Omar Naim's ('The Final Cut') latest mystery thriller 'Dead Awake' has wrapped it's shoot. It's 3 main stars, Nick Stahl (who's just signed on to Vincenzo Natali's '388 Areletta Avenue'), Rose McGowan and Amy Smart (below) are in the can and hopefully this baby can be cut in time for it's 3 December Us release date. Ben Marten, Kim Grimaldi, Brian Lynner, Justin Marxen, James Serpento, Jack Mishler, Shane Simmons and Rachel Storey all co-star in 'Dead Awake' which was penned by Johnny Harrington, Justin Urich ('Lake Placid 2 ') and David Boivin. 'Dylan, a young man working at a funeral parlor, is trying to unravel a mystery that shattered his life ten years earlier. After faking his own funeral to see who will show up, he befriends a mysterious street junkie and is reunited with an old love from his past. The...
- 11/8/2010
- Horror Asylum
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