Shadow People

Shadow People

By Matthew Arnold

  • Genre: Horror
  • Release Date: 2013-03-19
  • Advisory Rating: PG-13
  • Runtime: 1h 28min
  • Director: Matthew Arnold
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • iTunes Price: USD 5.99
  • iTunes Rent Price: USD 3.99
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Description

Back in the 1970s, several patients in an experimental sleep study reported seeing shadowy intruders. These patients - and hundreds of others - died in their sleep soon after. Doctors called the phenomenon "Sudden Unexplained Nocturnal Death Syndrome" and refused to discuss the shadows. Now, a struggling late-night radio host (Dallas Roberts of THE GREY and TV's THE WALKING DEAD) and a skeptical CDC investigator (Alison Eastwood of MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL) have begun researching a disturbing new outbreak of shadow sightings and sleep fatalities. Could this be a case of paranoid hallucination, or are these victims literally being scared to death by actual nightmare creatures? Anne Dudek (TV's COVERT AFFAIRS, TV's HOUSE M.D.) and Mariah Bonner (THE SOCIAL NETWORK) co-star in this supernatural thriller based on true events.

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  • Disappointing

    2
    By rkf05
    I love a good supernatural thriller without the gore and excessive jump-scares and this one seemed like it fit the bill. The word that came to mind after watching it was 'insipid' which Websters defines as "not interesting or exciting: dull or boring / lacking strong flavor". And that pretty much sums up this movie. It, apparently, is based on real people and incidents (Kentucky, 2008) and so is intercut with videos/new reports of the time. Unfortunately, this does not make it any more interesting. It is largely about the radio host's increasing obsession with the so-called shadow people, his deterorating relationship with his family, and a CDC investigator's attempt to explain noctural death syndrome. The actual time spent on "shadow people" is mininal and, in the end, the movie seems to offer a half-hearted natural, psychological explanation via the CDC character. I kept waiting for the punch-line or payoff, but none came. I kept waiting to be creeped-out, but I wasn't. ' Blah' on this one.

  • Amazing!

    5
    By Kris.mm
    I am a huge horror fan except for the blood, guts, & boobs horror films. This movie shocked me to my core & is so well written with great acting. I've watched it probably 5 or more times over the years. This is horror mixed with legend & possibly even truth? if you believe?

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