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Red Water Entertainment has picked up the US rights to the Irish thriller The Sleep Experiment, and will begin distributing it November 1.
The film is about two detectives who discover evidence of a horrific experiment conducted during the Cold War, where five prisoners were locked in a chamber and delivered gas that would keep them awake. They were left in the chamber for an entire month to see what would happen.
The Sleep Experiment claims that it is “inspired by real events” but we’re skeptical whatever they’re talking about went EXACTLY this way. The facts are, it’s impossible to stay awake for an entire month. Your body will eventually self-induce sleep; you can’t resist it forever. It’s true that in this case the subjects are medically induced into staying awake, but that changes nothing — if anyone went without sleep for that long, they’d be dead before 30 days had passed.
The Sleep Experiment stars Rob James Capel, Will Murphy, Tom Kerrisk, and Barry John Kinsella. It was...
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