Movies: Sleep paralysis

A girl in makes a deal with the beyond for sacred knowledge....

Young college student, Catalina (played by Kara Saadet Schwarz), begins to experience extremely disturbing cases of sleep paralysis which may have rooted from an unsolved, brutal death in her family....

A struggling filmmaker accepts an unpaid job from a one-hit-wonder but soon comes to regret her decision when the artist exhibits increasingly disturbing behavior....

After a mysterious trauma, an elderly man begins to suffer from sleep paralysis, haunted by a sinister female figure. Sent to a care home, he discovers his new roommate behaves in disturbing ways-rituals he can only witness while paralyzed. As other ...

As Liz struggles with nyctophobia (fear of the dark), a form of anxiety disorder that causes sleeping issues, she desperately tries to fall asleep by entering her “inner world” where she can access her happy childhood memories. However, she ultimatel...

Abductee is a chilling "found footage" film set in the outskirts of Portland, Oregon. Terrifying in a way that few other horror films are, Abductee explores the bizarre and misunderstood world of alien abduction. Through a first person account, we co...

After a traumatic experience, Chris comes home to confront his past. but soon finds himself prey to a Demon who taunts him through sleep paralysis....

Anxious and unstable after removing herself from a money-grubbing rehab facility, a recovering addict isolates herself in a nearby rental home while she gets her life on track. Haunted by episodes of sleep paralysis and visions of silhouetted demons,...

A gifted college freshman comes of age, stumbles upon the bizarre allure of a clandestine theatre club and falls in love with her sleep paralysis demon, while the weight of caring for her ailing mother casts a shadow over her blossoming journey of se...

Zoe is stuck in life. Stuck at work. Stuck in a cycle. She starts to have sleep paralysis where she meets her sleep paralysis demon. The Woman begins to appear in Zoe's life forcing Zoe to acknowledge her and their strange connection....

Johnny is a photographer, he is also a rapist and killer, and suffers from sleep-paralysis. A dead girl tries to kill him in his dreams, or are the dreams in fact reality?...

A look at the link between the Djinn and Shadow People...

Kira finds it difficult to wake up, as sleep paralysis and psychological trauma from her childhood keep her in an endless cycle of nightmares....

"Sleep Paralysis" dives in to the little-known phenomenon of the same name. Affected people from different cultures tell of their frightening experiences, while scientists try to find explanations....

Struggling with the pressures of homophobia when her partner is taken away by a hateful mother, a young gay woman struggles to cope with the traumas and anxieties of her life. Her dreams descend, taking the shape of shadows which reach into her life....

A collection of animations, bringing to life talking heads of people recounting nightmares. In the first, a girl escapes her school as it is invaded by monsters. In the second an account of sleep paralysis. In the third a boy finds a warehouse of d...

During her childhood, Lindsay struggled with sleep paralysis. For years it was gone, but now that she's a beautiful grown woman the disorder is back - and worse than ever. Lindsay believes she's seeing her dead father during the paralysis and starts ...

In the wake of his girlfriend's death, a man's sense of the real and the illusory world begins to blur when he is visited nightly by hallucinatory representations of his depression in the form of a Succubus....

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A grief-stricken young woman, plagued by sleep paralysis and the mysterious beings that haunt her visions, finds that she has more demons to face than just those lurking in her bedroom....