Sleep is such an exciting directorial debut from Jason Yu, a darkly humorous metronome of Hitchcockian paranoia that expertly balances tone. Jung Yu-mi’s Soo-Jin isn’t sure if her husband (an incredible Lee Sun-kyun) is possessed or merely has a sleepwalking disorder. The kicker - they have a newborn daughter whose life is now at risk and pretty much a sworn oath to get through everything together. You’re chuckling one moment and holding your breath the next, feeling like you’re descending into madness right along with them. Hearing Yu discuss his thoughts behind the script and how the two leads had to relate to each other as a married couple… sometimes you can just tell someone has the juice and I will…

Bong Joon-ho called this "the most unique horror film and the smartest debut film I've seen in 10 years", and he was absolutely right. Sleep is for me the best horror of 2023 so far by miles, and is such an intense, tip-toeing genre-bender that thrives on its ambiguity, ambition and unpredictability.

When a man starts to sleepwalk and show abnormal behaviors at night, his wife decides to get to the bottom of the mystery at all costs. Starting from the safe, familiar space of a happy couple and their tiny apartment, the story slowly reveals its menace, which originates from the husband's mental disorder diagnosis and develops into a much darker threat than the couple could handle. Director Jason…