10 Horror Movies That Lied To You In The Title

Parker Finn's precursor to Smile (2022), Laura Hasn't Slept treads similar ground in a far more restrained fashion, and stars Smile's own Caitlin Stasey as Laura Weaver, playing opposite Lew Temple in a two-person horror chamber piece.

Laura visits her psychiatrist Dr Parsons (Temple) complaining of a recurring nightmare in which a hideous and grotesque man follows her, smiling, attempting to force her to look at him -- and, if she does, there's no telling what might happen. The dream is so real, so visceral and so consistent, she's certain that if he catches up with her something terrible is really going to happen. Thus, in an effort to avoid him altogether, she hasn't been sleeping.

But therein lies the twist, and the trick of the title: Laura has slept. In fact, she's sleeping right now. Dr Parsons questions how Laura arrived in his office, or if she even really knows who he is, before morphing into the very creature she's been trying to escape.