Carlos A.F. Lopez’s horror short Dream Creep is set for its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival 2024.
David awakens in the night to a cry for help emanating from his partner Suzy’s earhole.
Instantly thrust into a harrowing, supernatural emergency, the couple face an impossible decision as a voice from beyond compels them to commit unthinkable acts of violence.
If they comply, will these actions save them or open the door to an even more horrific nightmare?
Director Carlos A.F. Lopez commented,
“Dream Creep exists for anyone who has ever woken up with a jolt in the night, terrified that their nightmare may have followed them into the waking world.
The impetus for the idea blossomed from a personal experience that mirrors the opening of the film: I awakened one night to a loud crash, I was unsure if the sound occurred in my dream and had woken me up; or if it had really happened and there was actual danger in my house. From that acute state of terror, I wanted to explore how someone thrust into a waking nightmare would deal with harrowing life-or-death decisions. As I lay looking at my partner sleeping, I was struck by the idea of what if it wasn’t my dream I had heard but theirs?
The horror genre offers a great framework for these surreal and metaphysical quandaries. Setting the action in an innocuous, domestic, reality places the audience intimately within our characters’ interior worlds, allowing for enough familiarity to interrogate what they might be capable of –if confronted with the same extreme circumstances that befall our characters. With Dream Creep, I aim to place us in that world to create a subversive cinematic experience that is wholly unique, eerily familiar and darkly funny. “
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