Good concept, poorly executed.

I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Alright, with this having been released upon the world and mankind, I am sure that H.P. Lovecraft is turning over in his grave. Now, I am a huge fan of Lovecraft's writing and his work, and truth be told then there are a bunch of good movie available that are based more or less on his work. But of course, not everything can be good. And this 2006 version of "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" is definitely far from good.First of all, the movie is plagued by an endless stream of flashing imagines in a very distorted and disorganized manner. Sure the idea must have seemed nice, to introduce a sense of madness with these images, but it just didn't work. It these flashing images did anything, it would have been annoying you senseless and making you irritable. It got to the point where I got up and turned off the movie.And the acting in the movie didn't exactly help bring any justice to this visual rape of Lovecraft's epic classic tale. The acting in the movie was like watching a staged scene of amateur theater. It was forced, unemotional, over the top, and just a pain to behold. Everybody, save a couple of people, in the movie was really, really bad in their acting. And that made the movie even more unbearable to look at (as if the constant annoying flashing images wasn't enough).The flickering and switching between black and white to color did nothing to help the movie along either. Either stick with black and white or go in full color. It just ended up making the movie come off as a crappier production.I was genuinely disappointed when I made it just over halfway through the movie. This is to the point where I simply gave up on the movie, because the acting was bad, the production was bad, the Lovecraft-feeling was non-existing in the movie. It just failed on all levels.For fans of Lovecraft, then stay well clear of the 2006 version of "Beyond the Wall of Sleep", because it is like watching paint drying on a wall; uneventful and dull.

Despite the absolutely atrocious acting in this film, the way it was told and visualized was pretty amazing, and very true to the Lovecraft story it came from. The effects used were low budget but still oddly impressive, and for a low budget film I thought it was pretty damn good overall. Yes, the pacing was very slow. Yes, the acting was below amateurish, even downright awful a lot of the time. Yes, the camera angles were below even the quality of a television reality program. However, it was still a brilliantly visualized film, especially the 'backstory' scene and the summoning scene. Overall, it was below what I personally would have preferred in a film based on a Lovecraft story, but I still thought it came to a fantastically visualized, mind blowing conclusion.

I hate a DVD box that has a cool looking scary creature on it and then you rent it and the movie turns out to be a piece of crap.This was one of those movies.I hated this movie.It was one of the worst pieces of garbage I've ever watched.I'm not really sure what the movie was about.As near as I can tell it took place in the early 1900's in an insane asylum.A patient is brought in that has a weird deformity on his back and a young intern who is doing weird experiments on patients in the basement starts experimenting on the deformed patient and that leads to chaos and havoc and death at the asylum.And also there was something about evil things happening when the patient slept and maybe a demon was living in the hump on his back.I dunno.This movie was terrible.It had bad acting,really really bad acting.And horrible writing and all during the movie there were the same pictures of dark woods and bloody meat and little kids running around flashing on the screen over and over.I don't know what it meant nor do I care.Rarely have I seen a movie that was so completely worthless and plot less and pointless as this mess.I hate everyone who had anything to do with this movie.May not a single one of them ever work in the entertainment industry again.I gave this movie a 1 only because the rating system doesn't go any lower.

It seems everyone who has reviewed this thinks its a terrible Lovecraft movie or a great comedy. It's not as f_cking terrible as some say it is but 10/10 come on its not that good, even as a comedy. Its far from the worst of the worst but the sh_tty camera work and acting add to its B-movie charm. There some stuff that would be pretty disturbing if done right, and its not really done right. The story line is really cool but thats no credit to the filmmakers. Also the movie puts Tom Savini's name right on the box which gives it some cred but he's only in like 2 F_cking scenes which is gay. And the the CGI monster at the end sucks. And on the DVD there was a preview for some movie where some fat bald guy kills people which is fun. So in conclusion this movie is some what creepy but(90% of the time) in a really funny way.