Awoken(2019)
2019 · Daniel J. Phillips · 87 min
Karla, a young medical student, is trying to cure her brother, Blake, from a terminal sleep illness called Fatal Familial Insomnia, where you are unable to sleep until you die. On her quest to treat him, a more sinister reason for his condition is revealed.
Horror · Thriller · Mystery
5.7105 votes
TMDB score
3/5
Intensity
1/5
Gore
2/5
Stays with you
How scary is Awoken?
It opens like a quiet medical drama about a rare, deadly sleep disorder before slowly shifting into something stranger and more unsettling. The pace is deliberate, favoring mounting unease and confusion over quick scares, with the sense that something isn't quite right growing steadily as the story goes on. Its fear comes mostly from disorientation and dread rather than physical danger or gore. This one's better suited to viewers who like a slow mystery with a creeping, uneasy atmosphere than those looking for jump scares or action.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Awoken rates psychological 4/5, visceral 2/5, gore 1/5, lingering effect 2/5, and overall intensity 3/5.
- Psychological: 4 of 5
- Visceral: 2 of 5
- Gore: 1 of 5
- Lingering: 2 of 5
- Intensity: 3 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 25 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 45 of 100 — balanced
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 55 of 100 — balanced
Intensity over runtime
Shape only — no eventsReveal pacing shapeHide pacing shapeHidden by default — shows where the tension peaks and lets up.
A slow, mysterious build that stays subdued for most of its runtime before tightening into a tense, unsettling final stretch.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5.
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