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Short description
Julia Lund is a psychology student nearing the end of her degree when Billy, a friend from childhood, contacts her in a state of terror. He insists that the monstrous figures who haunted their sleep as children have returned, and then kills himself in front of her. At his funeral Julia meets his college friends, several of whom describe the same childhood nightmares. She dismisses it all as a shared delusion until she begins sleeping badly herself and catching sight of unsettling shapes in dark corners.
Robert Harmon directed the film, which followed The Crossing in his filmography, from a screenplay by Brendan Hood. Laura Regan plays Julia, with Marc Blucas as her boyfriend Paul, Ethan Embry and Dagmara Domińczyk as Billy's friends Sam and Terry, and Jon Abrahams as Billy. The production, backed by Focus Features, Dimension Films, Miramax and Good Machine, cost about 17 million USD and took roughly 13 million USD worldwide, so it did not recover its budget in cinemas.
On IMDb it holds a rating of 4.5 out of 10 from 57 reviews, while on TMDB it stands at 5 out of 10 from 302 votes, putting the two audience measures close together and the critical score beneath them.
What's left behind the scenes
- Brendan Hood's original screenplay told the story of four students who discovered that Earth was actually ruled by a race of organic machines that allowed humans to exist only to scavenge their corpses for spare parts for their own bodies.
- Brendan Hood is credited as the screenwriter, but he only contributed the initial idea. The original screenplay was written by the producers; a total of up to 10 people worked on the script. Only one person is listed in the credits.
- Wes Craven is credited as the film's executive producer, however, he had nothing to do with its production. The studio added his name to the credits and the original poster to attract horror fans.
- Two alternative endings were filmed. In the first, Julia wakes up in her ward and discovers that Dr. Booth, Billy, Sam, and Terry are actually psychiatric patients, and her boyfriend Paul is a doctor. The film ends with a shot of a card showing her diagnosis: paranoid schizophrenia. In the second ending, Julia convinces the doctors that she is fine, despite still seeing monsters around her. She goes home, turns on all the lights, and waits for them with a flashlight in her hand. The film ends with a shot of a closet door in the hallway slowly opening.
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