In Netflix’s ‘Awake,’ People Have Lost the Ability to Sleep

Netflix’s summer of horror is officially underway. First came Zack Snyder‘s Army of the Dead, and now comes another kind of waking nightmare — literally — in the form of Awake.

Netflix Watch Guide | Awake

Directed by Mark Raso (Kodachrome) and written by he and his brother Joseph (Sneakerella), the sci-fi horror thriller takes place in the immediate future and follows the fallout of a mysterious apocalyptic event that shuts down allelectronics and sees most humans on Earth lose the ability to sleep. But in the midst of all the chaos and societal collapse is Matilda (Avengers: Infinity War‘s Ariana Greenblatt), a young girl who has miraculously retained the ability to still fall asleep. Now it’s up to her mother Jill (Annihilation‘s Gina Rodriguez), an ex-soldier, and brother Noah (Heroes Reborn‘s Lucius Hoyos) to get her to the military hub where the only other person with the ability to sleep currently exists, as scientists and the military work to find a cure before everyone eventually succumbs to the perils of longterm sleep deprivation.

For Rodriguez, who actually shot the project two years ago, the idea of this dystopic horror film coming out while the world is still in the grips of a global pandemic, is a bit of a strange experience.

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