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The Sleep Experiment is an excellent horror film that dives deep into the psychological damage caused by a top-secret government experiment. Based on Creepypasta’s The Russian Sleep Experiment , writer/director John Farrelly delivers his first feature film that exposes the horrors of what humanity is capable of when pushed to the brink. The film begins with a slow burn, however, as time passes on and the test subjects begin to hallucinate, the plot transitions into the psychological thriller realm before escalating into full physical horror in the final act. The Sleep Experiment has some pretty decent twists and turns along the way (some more obvious than others), but overall has a very solid story with a great performance from the entire cast.

Spoiler Warning Two detectives David (Anthony Murphy) and Robert (Barry John Kinsella) begin an investigation on the ethics involved in the top-secret research facility, Porton Down. One experiment stands out to them as the most horrific, The Sleep Experiment, a scientific experiment that took place during the Cold War. The experiment consisted of five prisoners, deemed Enemies of the State, being locked in a sealed gas chamber. An airborne stimulant was continually administered to keep the subjects awake for 30 consecutive days. The prisoners were promised that they would be set free and erase their prison sentences if they successfully complete the experiment.

In the film’s opening scene, a vehicle is driving through the night on May 16th, 1961, and arrives at a secret facility. Armed guards wearing protective gear wait outside the building as five hooded men are escorted down a dark staircase into an underground bunker. The five men are all prisoners held on national security charges, Luke (Will Murphy), Patrick (Sam McGovern), Edward (Rob James Capel), Sean (Brian Moore), and Eric (Steven Jess). Fifteen years in the future, the two detectives are interviewing Christopher (Tom Kerrisk), about his involvement with the experiment.

As the experiment officially begins, the five prisoners begin to become better acquainted with each other. They each introduce themselves and reveal their backstories as well as why they were originally sent to prison before participating in the experiment. The prisoners were all charged and convicted with either murder or attempted murder. The men are hopeful that they will successfully complete the experiment so that they can be released from prison and return home to their families. Back in 1976, the two detectives believe that Christopher was the person who designed the sleep experiment for the military.

As the interview continues, Christopher reveals that the five prisoners weren’t randomly chosen for the experiment, but in fact, they each volunteered to participate. The detectives accuse Christopher of being responsible for the deaths of nine people when the experiment was being conducted. On the fourth day of the experiment, Eric begins to struggle mentally while Patrick has an asthma attack. The guards enter the room and escort Patrick to receive medical attention. The very next day (Day 5), Patrick returns to the experiment room where the rest of the prisoners immediately become suspicious of his actual whereabouts.

Hallucinations Rapidly Approach

As the film’s timeline continues to shift back and forth between 1961 and 1976, Christopher provides plenty of details and information to the two detectives about his design. During the interview, Christopher discovers that the experiment is connected personally to Robert, learning that his father was one of the test subjects. On Day 12, Patrick has another asthma attack and is escorted out of the room for the second time. The men begin having extreme hallucinations as Eric and Sean scream and demand to be released from the experiment. The next day, Patrick returns to the experiment room where he doesn’t seem to be in the same condition as his fellow test subjects.

Luke becomes even more suspicious of Patrick only to learn that he has been taking notes of everything that has happened for the past twelve days. Edward experiences a severe hallucination where he believes that Luke is responsible for the death of his daughter. As Edward confronts Luke, Luke unveils the notebook that he had stolen from Patrick. It is revealed that Patrick was an undercover test subject the entire time. Luke provokes Edward into believing that he truly killed his daughter until Edward reaches a mental breaking point and brutally kills Luke.

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With Luke dead and the other test subjects mentally spiraling out of control, on Day 14, the scientists decide to shut down the experiment and immediately send armed guards into the room. As the guards cautiously enter the pitch-dark room, they are violently attacked by the prisoners, causing more deaths in the process. The surviving guards are able to successfully remove the prisoners from the room where they immediately seek medical assistance. Back in 1976, Christopher leaves the interview before apologizing to Robert about his father.

After the interview, the detectives decide to continue their investigation where they speak with a chemical engineer who helped conduct the experiment. They discover that Christopher not only designed the experiment but was also the lead scientist. David races to Christopher’s home only to find that he had already left town. In the basement of Christopher’s home, David finds and listens to a tape recording only to learn the horrible truth of Christopher's intentions and the end result of the five prisoners.

John Farrelly Succeeds in Filmmaking

From the directing standpoint, John Farrelly did not disappoint with The Sleep Experiment . Both timelines in the story transitioned at a very good pace, while the cinematography and soundtrack are superb. With only an hour and 20-minute runtime, the film did seem short, but it gets straight to the point and doesn’t prolong the story whatsoever. The Irish psychological thriller , The Sleep Experiment , is a film worth watching and certainly payoffs as an outstanding first feature film for John Farrelly.

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By Chris Esper | March 9, 2023

According to an urban legend, in 1947, in Soviet Russia, an experiment was conducted in which five prisoners were promised freedom if they could stay awake for 30 consecutive days in a chamber. This would be administered using a gas stimulant. The prisoners were chosen based on their being considered an enemy of the state. However, the experiment was a failure, resulting in multiple deaths. That is the basis for writer-director John Farrelly’s horror/thriller debut,  The Sleep Experiment .

In 1961, prisoners Edward (Rob James Capel), Sean (Brian Moore), Luke (Will Murphy), Eric (Steven Jess), and Patrick (Sam McGovern) volunteered to stay up for a month straight. The experiment is being conducted by scientist Christopher Sampson (Tom Kerrisk), who works for Porton Down, a science park in England. Edward is a hulking presence charged with murder after attempting to avenge his daughter’s death. Thief Sean wants to see his aunt again after losing his mother. Luke killed children. Eric is unassuming and looks innocent, though he’s serving a sentence for murder. Patrick is the most mysterious of them all but is also the most stable.

Meanwhile, in 1976, two cops, David (Anthony Murphy) and Robert (Barry John Kinsella), are investigating Christopher and the experiment. The investigation is intercut with the prisoners in the gas chamber, showing the events that occur while counting down the days. The story is presented in five chapters, showing each prisoner’s slowly decaying mental state. The results are bloody, violent, and revealing in their conclusion.

“… five prisoners were promised freedom if they could stay awake for 30 consecutive days…”

Farrelly, at just the ripe age of twenty-two, shot  The Sleep Experiment  for 25 days stretched over four years. As a debut, it is impressive on a technical level. The opening scenes feature nicely crafted shots as photographed by Alice Hollingsworth. One of the highlights includes when the prisoners first arrive in the chamber, hooded, and the experiment’s rules are explained. During this speech, the camera moves 360 degrees around the room, showing how little there is. It’s also foreshadowing what is coming. Unfortunately, this kind of promise disappears shortly after the first half hour. 

The premise on its own is excellent and is genuinely interesting at its start. That said, the film has a bad habit of over-explaining. There is so much dialogue between Edward, Sean, Luke, Eric, and Patrick as they recount the reasons for their arrest. While there are flashes of imagery showing the prisoners at the scene of their crimes, it is not enough. Worse still, the overpowering music makes it hard to discern what anyone says.

The conclusion, while genuinely creepy, featured a lot of expository dialogue, which is not only hard to understand but also underwhelming. The investigation scenes also come off as problematic. For example, one of the cops, as it turns out, has a personal connection to one of the prisoners. However, this is never mentioned again for the remainder of the runtime nor revealed which prisoner it is. Understanding this character and connection would have created more investment.

For everything there is to like in  The Sleep Experiment , there is something not to like. Some of the twists and turns are well executed, while others are not. Farrelly has a clear vision as a filmmaker and directs his cast well. He and Hollingsworth also make the visuals quite nice. However, the film falters in its writing and storytelling, leaving little surprise as it concludes. Still, Farrelly is a filmmaker to watch as he develops his cinematic voice.

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Reviewed by: Jennie Kermode

The thing about the experiments carried out at Porton Down in the mid 20th Century – which followed, to an extent, in the same tradition as MK Ultra in the US – is that so much remains hidden about them, and there is so much denial surrounding them, that fiction writers can use them as a foundation for all sorts of things. Writer/director John Farrelly has claimed them as inspiration for this thriller about prisoners and sleep deprivation, but it has notable features in common with a similarly titled Creepypasta story. What gives it some weight regardless is its focus on Irish characters, which reflects other aspects of the troubled history of the British state and makes the central premise all too believable.

This concerns five men, hooded and marched into what looks like an underground bunker in the opening scenes. All serving lengthy prison sentences, they have been told that they will have them commuted if they cooperate in an experiment which involves an experimental gas. “You must stay awake for the next 30 days. You must complete all physical activities. You must obey any orders given to you without delay. Strictly no physical contact between each other,” intones a voice. The parameters of the experiment are clumsily drawn. It doesn’t seem likely to produce good quality data, but its flaws are in line with the approach of similar studies at the time, and there’s no reason to assume somebody would have intervened.

We watch events unfold at a distance, the idea being that events in the bunker were recorded on tapes and are being reviewed by detectives many years later. Farrelly’s shooting style doesn’t fit this narrative, so you will have to suspend disbelief, but the format enables him to jump back and forth, introducing new snippets of information wherever they are most effective from a dramatic perspective. One tape is missing, and yes, it does turn up right at the end. In the meantime, the detectives build on their observations from the tapes by interviewing psychologist Christopher Sampson (Tom Kerrisk), who designed the experiment.

Down there in the bunker in the past timeline are likeable, practical Edward (Rob James Capel), who is sympathetically presented as having committed murder only to avenge his murdered child; shy young Eric (Steven Jess), who immediately triggers Edward’s protective instincts; pushy but personable Sean (Brian Moore); tediously vacant psychopath Luke (Will Murphy); and peculiarly well-adjusted Patrick (Sam McGovern), who just wants to get it all over with and get out, but who may have a secret. Viewers will immediately suspect that these particular characters have been placed together for a reason which goes beyond what they’ve been told about, and indeed, they don’t need sleep deprivation to start getting on each other’s nerves. Knowing this, Farrelly reveals early on that something went horribly wrong, and has the detectives demand to know more about the men’s backgrounds and why they were chosen.

There’s a lot of potential here, and the result is a film which, whilst disastrous in some respects, works well in others. Let’s get the bad stuff out of the way first. Kerrisk’s acting, on which key aspects of the film depend, is terrible. The dialogue is pretty bad throughout, but where other actors mostly succeed in pulling it off, he’s hopeless, trotting out a bizarre description of what it means to be a psychopath as if reading from a Fifties textbook, contributing to the predictable and flaccid ‘twist’ ending in a style which recalls the Republic serial villains of the 1930s, totally at odds with the rest of the film. This is particularly frustrating because not only does it let down the good work elsewhere, it also risks making the whole thing so comical as to provide cover for real life equivalents.

By contrast, the drama in the bunker is quite well handled, with solid work from most of the actors, especially in the early stages. The film is at its strongest before it starts obliging them to show the effects of mental disintegration, but even then, some of it is quite effective, with Eric getting overwhelmed early on due to difficulty in filtering noise, something which many viewers will have experienced for themselves when under stress. Capel and Moore work well together and will leave you wanting to see more of the prisoners’ experience. There’s enough here to illustrate that Farrelly is not without talent. It’s just a shame that the cheesy, clumsily handled aspects of the film prevent it from achieving its potential.

Director: John Farrelly

Writer: John Farrelly

Starring: Rob James Capel, Will Murphy, Tom Kerrisk, Barry John Kinsella, Will Murphy

Runtime: 81 minutes

Country: Ireland

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Written and directed by John Farrelly , two detectives begin an investigation into a disastrous secret military experiment where five prisoners were kept awake for thirty days in a sealed gas chamber. Starring: Rob James Capel , Will Murphy , Tom Kerrisk , Barry John Kinsella and Will Murphy .

It’s horrific to imagine the sorts of traumatic experiments governments and scientists got away with in a time with so much less transparency and culpability, so it’s not surprising that The Sleep Experiment was inspired by real events. The concept is a good one but it’s massively undercut by the style of the film. Where we should be getting a growingly disturbing atmosphere, it all feels very false and synthetic. It’s a harsh, twisted story but that isn’t translating into the aesthetic or tone, there’s a stage-like presence to it, it’s too cleanly put together.

That lack of individual style fights against the intrigue of its story, making it work too hard when it should speak for itself. You don’t have to be an expert to know what lack of sleep does to the psyche so that alone gives the film oodles of complicated, violent and hysterical potential. In some ways it does capitalise on that but it’s also being used to set up a secondary story, exploring those being investigated for the experiment. That split means neither really get the space that they need to make for a satisfying punch, instead leaving it feeling far too open, needing to follow the road further.

Its insincere quality unfortunately is only further fed by its actors, in particular Tom Kerrisk ’s overly stereotypical English accent. He brings a cliched presence, not able to dive into the complexities of the character, which negatively impacts the progression of the story. The performances in general feel too by the book, they’re ticking the boxes but not giving anything unique or gripping. What they are bringing to the table makes this story all the more obvious, so the mysterious or complex potential goes mostly unanswered.

The Sleep Experiment tries to explore cruelty and crime but can’t capitalise on the mayhem and chaos that naturally arise. It misses out on a real or sincere note, everything feels overly composed and structured, which undermines the tone and atmosphere needed to drive home this story. It’s the same case for most of the cast and it sadly just falls into too many stereotypes for this to work. It’s disappointing as there’s a decent crime story at its foundation, with a potentially complex antagonist but neither are done justice.

Verdict: ✯✯ | 4/10

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Two detectives begin an investigation into a disastrous secret military experiment where five prisoners were kept awake for thirty days in a sealed gas chamber.

Tom Kerrisk Will Murphy Owen Colgan Brian Moore Rob James Capel Steven Jess Sam McGovern Barry John Kinsella Anthony Murphy Cathal Fitzpatrick

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John Farrelly

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In lieu of their prison sentences, five men agree to be participants in top-secret experiment in which they will be prevented from sleeping for thirty days. Two detectives are tasked with interviewing the researchers involved in the subsequent events in which the experiment went catastrophically wrong, leading to death and destruction. Weaving these related plots together, The Sleep Experiment is a captivating and frequently horrifying narrative of revelation from first-time Irish director John Farrelly.

Adapted from Russia in the 1940s to Ireland in Cold War era 1961, the film’s script is based on the popular Creepypasta myth the Russian Sleep Experiment, with the basic premise expanded to explore the inner psyches of many of the key players, as well as added arcs, twists and turns. And while evident from its source material that The Sleep Experiment is unabashedly a horror, there are also clear dramatic influences. Its focus on monologue, which characterises the both the detectives’ interviews and the prisoners’ revelations on their pasts, gives the film a the pervading theme of confession, lending the production a particularly Irish flair.

Writer, director and editor Farrelly worked on The Sleep Experiment during his final year of secondary school in 2018, not long after winning Young Filmmaker of the Year at the Limerick Fresh Film Festival. Adding to his undeniably impressive set-up is a strong cast of Irish actors, each tasked with the difficult job of playing layered characters presenting heavily edited versions of themselves in a heavy atmosphere of paranoia – much of which is not just in their heads.

Set primarily in tight, claustrophobic locations, The Sleep Experiment ’s cinematography impressively adds to the film’s overall sense of dread. The production makes impressive use of the prisoners’ Spartan bunker setting, with the camera work keeping the action alive and compelling. The lighting is employed strongly throughout to create jarringly intimate scenes at one moment and horror-filled instances of the uncanny in the next. There are also some disturbing moments of gore and violence, but much of the film’s horror is also delivered via the actors’ speech and the implication of what we don’t see.

Seeing what can be achieved here by a young director and a dedicated cast and crew, The Sleep Experiment has already a considerable success for Irish cinema: following a packed premiere on the 27 th of October it has been released on several streaming platforms including Amazon Prime and Apple TV. With strong performances, a haunting aesthetic and a compelling and ever-evolving plot, The Sleep Experiment is very much worth watching.

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The Sleep Experiment is a 2018 Irish psychological thriller film written and directed by John Farrelly , based on the The Russian Sleep Experiment . The film stars Brian Moore , Will Murphy , Rob James Capel , Steven Jess and Sam McGovern .

The film was announced in May 2018. Filming took place in Dublin, Ireland in August of 2018.

The Sleep Experiment is currently in post production as of September 2018 and is scheduled to be released in 2019.

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Plot [ edit ]

Researchers during the cold war develop an experimental gas based stimulant that keeps you awake. Five prisoners are promised their freedom if they take part in an experiment in which they must stay awake for thirty days.

Cast [ edit ]

• Brian Moore as Sean
• Will Murphy as Luke
• Rob James Capel as Edward
• Steven Jess as Eric
• Sam McGovern as Partick
• Rob Early as Christopher
• Degnan Geraghty Elderly Christopher
• Moya Farrelly as Maeve
• Gwynne McElveen as Laura
• Paula McGlinchey as Rosemary

Production [ edit ]

In July 2017, it was reported that Jackpot Productions had started developing The Sleep Experiment , a film based on the urban creepypasta legend, with the screenplay to be written by John Farrelly . [1]

Filming [ edit ]

Principal photography on the film began on August 6th, 2018, in Dublin and concluded on August 22, 2018. [1]

References [ edit ]

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