Stills: More Sleep Paralysis Horror Coming in Echoes

Last month saw the premiere of The Nightmare at Sundance. The “horror doc” from Room 237‘s Rodney Ascher explores the real-life phenomenon of sleep paralysis, interviewing sufferers and then restaging their nightmares in fictional form. As that movie does its fest run (SXSW is up next), Anchor Bay is gearing up to release Echoes, a more out-and-out horror film about the subject, this spring.  

Echoes is the feature debut of Nils Timm. The film concerns Anna (Kate French), “a young writer struggling with horrifying, sleep-paralysis induced visions. Anna retreats with her boyfriend (Steven Brand) to an isolated yet beautiful glass house in the desert. Hoping that the desert vistas surrounding her will spur her creative juices, she welcomes the opportunity to stay behind when her boyfriend must return to the city for urgent business. However, Anna’s sleep paralysis does not abate, despite the calming environment. And now, her attacks are accompanied by a mysterious figure, caked with dirt as if it was made of sand itself. As the visions intensify, she finds herself on the verge of losing her mind…or is she being lead to uncover a life-threatening secret?”

Echoes hits Blu and DVD this April 14th. Find the first stills from the film, heavily focused on unnatural eyes, below.