"Gorgeous but overbaked "mama's boy" thriller from master Argento." - Ed Gonzalez

Has a few classic Argento moments but it's also got a lot of the same fluff we've seen in countless other Argento flicks.

Sleepless soars beyond the limitations of B-slashers through Argento's attentiveness to artistic compositions and atmospherically haunting, grimly exploitative set-pieces. Echoes of Tenebre and Phenomena abound amidst a glistening pyramid of coolly, gorily efficient aesthetic scenarios to ensure that Argento's late-in-the-day feat embodies both the enthralling nature and spirit of the giallo. Sleepless's quasi-brilliant, artful slashing comes to represent the essence of classic pulp horror.

Hoped that Max Von Sydow would be able to lift up a post-Opera Argento movie to tolerable. Sadly those hopes were dashed rather quickly.

The prescience of Max von Sydow in an Argento film boosts it immensely; combined this with a solid Goblin soundtrack and the director's trademark brutality, and this should be a gem in his filmography. What lets the film down, like with a lot of Argento's work, is the story, with too much filler and without the intrigue of a film like The Bird with the Crystal Plumage.

One of the worst Argento movies I've seen. Besides some Argento elements there was no other reason to see it. The story was dull and the executing boring.

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Bad horror-effects