Mike Flanagan has been on a role with Netflix over the past couple years, first with his spin on home invasion horror Hush and again this year with his triumphant Stephen King adaptation Gerald’s Game, so it’s fitting that the streaming network has stepped in to save his long-languished film Before I Wake.
You may remember the first trailer dropping back in 2015, or perhaps the second one the year after, which landed with a shiny new release date that never came to pass. Starring Kate Bosworth, and Thomas Jane, the film follows a married couple who decide to take in an 8-year-old boy (Jacob Tremblay) whose dreams and nightmares manifest in reality, including visions of their dead son. The film will now debut in the US on Netflix, January 5, 2018.
The paranormal thriller was shot on the heels of Flanagan’s breakout hit Occulus and amassed a decent amount of buzz and some positive test screening scores before ending up on the shelf after Relativity’s bankruptcy woes. For a while there, it seemed like the film might never see the light of day.
