Sleep Tight – Mientras duermes (2011)

Sleep Tight – Mientras duermes (2011) is an exciting, gripping, horrible, cruel, and perverse film. With all these elements, I was hoping for an incredible ending. It is good, but I would have preferred a better motivation. I would have preferred it to be a story of revenge, rather than a simple story of unhappiness.

This film justifies hurting everyone else just because you’re unhappy yourself, and I find that quite pathetic and obviously a dangerous message. It’s not for nothing that all films should not be played in all hands. I read somewhere: “A modern Hitchcock – nasty and exciting.” Surely! That’s fair enough.

“The Spanish know how to do it.” Yes! That’s one way of looking at it. If even the English are capable of the worst, I don’t think the Spaniards are exempt from the rule. This director has made some pretty bad films too, like Muse for example. Also great: The Invisible Guest. To understand this, you have to see the film.

For all those who want to see an unhealthy but relatively well-made film, with its share of gore, it’s passable. It’s more the lack of justice and totally gratuitous nastiness that bothers me.