Rent The Sleeper (2012)
2.2 of 5 from 55 ratings
1h 26min
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- Synopsis:
- It's 1981 and the girls of Alpha Gamma Theta sorority are putting on a bash. As the new pledges arrive, so does an uninvited guest - 'The Sleeper' - and he's watching them from the shadows. The girls shower, revise, eat and sleep and all the while the lunatic killer studies their every move. Then they begin receiving creepy phone calls from the madman, always stating which of the girls will be the next to be 'put to sleep'. The girls are hunted down one by one by the mysterious foggy eyed killer, using his preferred weapon of choice... a claw hammer.
- Actors:
- Brittany Belland, Tiffany Arnold, Riana Ballo, John Bloom, Jessica Cameron, Jason Jay Crabtree, Ali Ferda, Bob Ferrato, Jenna Fournier, Luke Frost, Ray Goodwin, Dana Jackson, Beverly Kristy, Elizabeth Lane, Paul Moon
- Directors:
- Justin Russell
- Producers:
- Dana Jackson, Justin Russell
- Writers:
- Justin Russell
- Studio:
- Safecracker Pictures
- Genres:
- Horror, Thrillers
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Reviews (1) of The Sleeper
Blokes, eh? - The Sleeper review by NP
The grainy atmosphere of some nicely shot locations is completely undone when the ‘guys’ turn up. Horny teens are one thing, it seems obligatory for films like this, but the two gate-crashing twenty-something adolescents arrive at a sorority party and the viewer – or this viewer at least – is aching for the film’s antagonist to graphically wipe the smug grin off the faces of these cretins. The girls, by comparison, are more concerned with semesters and exams and that kind of thing – before mild sex is introduced to fill in more time before anything interesting happens.
One of the freedoms of low budget films like this is that they don’t have to go down the same predictable routes as more mainstream horrors. Many exercise the freedom they have by producing something different and interesting – this one doesn’t.
The kills are arbitrary, we know nothing about the murderer, and characters are tepid. Against that, it’s nicely directed and the moments of gore are fairly convincing. My score is 4 out of 10.
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