Movie Review of the Week: Before I Wake (2016)

(SPOILERS AHEAD!!)

As I've said this before, I am not a huge horror fan, but my boyfriend has definitely been trying to test my limits and helping me get over my childhood fears. Which I will not admit because they are super embarrassing and I like thinking that you guys think I'm cool. So, on our weekly date night we decided to watch "Before I Wake" which we found on Netflix and we watched the preview to it and decided what the hell this looks interesting. This movie is about a little boy who is an orphan and gets adopted by a women and her husband who lost their son. The foster parents realized the boy had a magical talent where his dreams come alive at night when he is asleep, but that also means his nightmares come alive as well. The film started off really intriguing and the character development was great. I loved the little boy that played Cody, Jacob Tremblay, he has to be the CUTEST actor I have ever seen and all I wanted to do was snuggle him. While Cody was the cutest thing on earth, there were a lot of holes in the plot that didn't quite add up for me and my significant other like how on earth did an 8 year-old boy drown in a bath tub that was two feet and if the parents knew that the kid would have some trouble wouldn't they have stayed in the bathroom with him? In my mind, there is only one way that boy could have drowned in the tub and that's if someone was holding him down...just something to think about. Another thing was all the people that morphed into The Kanker Man, where did they all go? We understood at the end of the film that "Kanker" meant cancer, but this monster was just a figure of Cody's imagination and I'm curious as to: what if all these people that "The Kanker Man" took had cancer and it was just all a huge metaphor? I'm not going to lie, I did get emotional towards the end of the film when Cody evolved from the monster and Jessie, his foster mother, recognized Cody's talent and embraced him for what he is. A bond was rebuilt between a mother and her son and as far as we are concerned they lived happily ever after.

If you've seen the film, what did you guys think?

Rate: 7/10