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This movie had so much potential. I don't know if they ran out of money or what. Very creepy, but man they blew it!

So two friends are roommates. One is a jerk; the other decent but a bro. The jerk starts acting odd, walking and behaving in his sleep, talking in Russian, etc. There is some subplot of the manager/owner of the apartment building that is under-funded of information and ideas to total to anything. There is something going on, but it's never fully explained leaving me and the movie without much point. Acting isn't bad but mediocre. The main character, decent bro, does well in carrying the film, but he doesn't have much to work with from the script. Not horrible to watch given the overall quality of the producrion, but it needed more development to elevate to something truly haunting.

...no other reviewers mentioned this as a cure for insomnia. Unlikable characters and no tension resulted in fast-forwarding until I gave up a third of the way through.

This is without doubt the worst horror movie I have ever seen. I watch horror movies, every day, and I always watch to the end in case I miss the point, however terrible the movie appears.

I regret watching to the end of this one. Zero redeeming features, zero story and horrible acting. Don't even waste another second of your life considering it!

Wow, where to start with this 'film' how on earth did this movie ever get the funds to be made is beyond belief! This movie is shockingly boring and incomprehensible, confusion reigns throughout and when the end credits roll you will be sat as I was for 10 minutes thinking 'what has just happened'.... The choice is yours... if you don't believe me then give it a watch, but at the end the end of the day it is a waste of your precious time. The positive reviews must be from people who were involved in the making of this nonsensical garbage...You have been warned my good people of good taste!!

Don't even waste your time watching this. This movie absolutely sucks so bad. The plot is not clear, it's slow, and they expect you to know more than they tell you. Just don't watch it go watch something like Looney Tunes you'll have a better time.

This movie is SO godawful I had to make an account to write a review. I don't think I've ever seen a worse movie than this. LITERALLY NOTHING HAPPENS, more than half the movie is just them sitting around doing drugs, and like 5 mins out of the film is focused on "spooky stuff". My friend and I eventually gave up on it a little more than halfway into the movie and skipped through about the last half hour, and it still looked like literally nothing happens except for like the last 2 mins. Not the mention the TERRIBLE acting, No story at all, as far as I know nothing is explained. Pure trash. Whoever made this needs to rethink their careers.

The title says it all; if i could have given this zero stars iwould have its so bad it doesn't even deserve ONE star! whoever gave it 10 stars is obviously someone who had involvement in this movie or the production of it. this is the worst movie i have ever seen, total snooze fest pointless boring made no sense and was completely stupid and by far the worst movie i've ever seen in my life! it was an hour and 20 minutes of my life i'll never get back. you'd have more fun watching paint dry..seriously!

Insomnium is a special kind of film. A film where you get to see exactly what you want out of a bad movie: earnest, unlikable characters, 4 actors, one location and a budget spent on 2 sets of contact lenses.

Nothing of note happens in this movie but so many amazing THINGS happen: Ouija pronounced "wee-jah!" Old men cast as young men Excessive toxic masculinity Excessive substance abuse Excessive repression of emotions Excessive over-exagerration Possibly one actor playing multiple characters but with hair-dye and bad accent. (You can't convince me these are different actors.) You get two great women: a too-horned-up gf and a helpful, if hysterical witch.

The amazing dialogue is muttered toward the wall and it reads like a bot that watched only teen movies.

The accents are vaguely foreignery.

Keep your eyes peeled for the body-dragging scene!

I really can't thank the director enough for the laughter you brought to my home. Would make a great double-feature with the slightly more abysmal FARM.

It's like the movie you come up with while sitting around with friends after a dinner and a few drinks and deciding to make a movie.

Which you did over the next couple of days.

Except you'd have done it better.

You should only see this movie to see where you would have gone wrong.

The only reason I gave this garbage 2 stars is because I found both leads attractive and they were shirtless and in underwear a lot. That's it. The movie itself was painfully bad, poorly edited and directed with a script that wouldn't get a second read in high school. The film made no sense and offered no hint of horror or even suspense.

Ho hum flick about a guy who becomes the target of an abusive neighbor. His eyes go funny and he becomes a sort of zombie/servant. The reactions and timing of the characters are ridiculous. I love me some horror and therefore have bought into the prerequisite that people act stupid in horror flicks but in this case it isn't worth it.

If there was a story of any kind in this film I couldn't find it. How this movie got a 4.6 rating has to be because people scammed this website. What a scam of a movie!

This is one of the worst movies I've ever seen in my entire life. Everything about this movie is bad: acting, writing, pacing, costumes, even the music is bad.

The protagonist is so unlikeable and all of the characters have absolutely zero depth to them. The film starts and ends abruptly with no explanation or context to the events that happen. It doesn't even give you a chance to be scared because you have no idea what's happening.

The characters spend most of the movie on drugs, and I think the director also did the same. I would not recommend this movie to anyone for any reason other than to help them fall asleep.

I'm a pretty positive person. I always try to see the bright side of things especially for an indie horror film - one of my favorite genres. So there are some positive things that can be said about Insomnium. For instance, some reviews said this film was a cure for insomnia but I had very different experience. Insomnium kept me guessing the whole time. Questions like: "It's daytime, right? Or is it night? I can't tell." And "Who throws toothbrushes at someone??" "Why do they only make video-calls?" "Who the heck is SHE?" And so many other questions right up to the end.

I like Brad Pennington (although I can't think of anything he was in) so I was kind of routing for this film. That's why I gave it such a high rating - 2 stars. I'm sure he did his best with the script he was given. And I wish Scott Powers the best in all of his future endeavors.

Another positive thing I can say about Insomnium is that it has a plot. Somewhere, mid way through the movie, I figured that there was nothing more to the plot than "sleeping roommate causes tension." (A side note: The roommate with insomnia is asleep through most of the movie. Don't let that detail distract you.) In the end, in the last seen, the last shot in fact, I realized that there was a much more complicated plot. This little surprise was craftily hidden from the viewer. Most filmmakers rely on devices like foreshadowing to keep the viewer interested. Not so here. Of course, I will not spoil the film for you by trying to explain. You'll have to watch to the end, like I did, to catch this clever twist.

All in all I felt that I had been, somehow, cheated out of 80 minutes that I could never get back. But as I thought about this film all the next day (which is usually my indicator of a great film for me) I realized that Insomnium showed me how important the little details are. The tiny little scenes that denote the passage of time or explains the presence of a new character, the dialog that sets up a protagonist's explosive reaction to a situation... Insomnium emphasizes these little clips by their omission. I have to admit, I enjoyed this film more than any other awful film I've seen.

Even after my fourth time seeing Insomnium, I still found myself clutching my pillow during certain moments and finding new details in the film to consider. There are layers to this story that are so subtle they pull you in without you noticing. And then you're left (in a good way) with lots of questions and the desire to watch again so you can catch all those details that really make this movie great. I can't wait to watch it again and can't wait for what comes next...

I'm constantly craving horror movies, but most of the obscure horror genre stuff I come across is pretty awful, so I assumed this would be the same. Maybe it's because my expectations were low going in, but I actually enjoyed this movie. I loved the dynamic between the roommates, and I think the acting was actually really good; like better than most of the big-budget films I've seen good. I guess I wouldn't classify it as horror myself, but I wouldn't say that counts against it. Overall, I think this was well done!

Just for the random signed Neil Diamond poster. That had me cracking up. Kudos. A plus for dumb props that make no sense. The rest.... take it or leave it.