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Recipe for a whelming 00’s horror movie. Take a heaping helping of Nightmare On Elm Street, by centering the horrors around sleeping (in this case, night terrors). Add in a liberal helping of Final Destination (a malicious entity that didn’t get people before is finishing the job, use 11-step chain reaction events to kill people). Give the killer entity a rule set and constantly break it when the plot needs it (it only travels in the dark and can effect electricity, until it needs to travel in the light, can’t effect electricity if it’s generated from a battery unless it’s a car battery, can effect heat and fire and water). You might stumble into some okay characters here and there, even when the script makes them have the wrong reactions to the wrong things. And you might fall backwards into a cool monster design, like a xenomorph mixed with a Cthulhu octopus monster that are smartly partially hidden in shadow. Your movie may end up on the short side, but it also doesn’t overstay its welcome. But it also feels like you’ve seen it all before, because you have, and done better elsewhere. But you’ve also seen it done worse elsewhere. Which leaves your recipe, when it’s all said and done, dead in the middle. Just okay enough to watch, and just okay enough to forget.