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Before I Wake is a 2016 drama fantasy horror film, directed by Mike Flanagan, starring Kate Bosworth, Jacob Tremblay and Thomas Jane.
- 65 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, TMDB reviews
- posts span Sep 9, 2016 to Oct 31, 2026
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60 of 70 · most liked firstNow on the Criterion Channel: five Argentine noirs preserved and restored by UCLA and made available by Film Noir Foundation and Flicker Alley! “Never Open That Door,” “The Beast Must Die,” “If I Should Die Before I Wake,” “The Black Vampire,” “The Bitter Stems” criterionchannel.com/argentine-noir
neutral · AI labelView post →#lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #filmsky The Lathe of Heaven: "A treat." The Killing of a Sacred Deer: "Nothing rings true in this film." New Life: "Sadly derivative despite its entertaining aspects." Before I Wake: "Creepy."
neutral · AI labelView post →‘Before I Wake’ starring Kate Bosworth, Thomas Jane, Annabeth Gish, and Jacob Tremblay had its North American premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival ten years ago this week 🦋 🛌 💭 #OTD
neutral · AI labelView post →Mostly done moving so movie watching can return as my primary motivator! The Venture Bros. : Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart (2023) Before I Wake (2016) One Cut of the Dead (2017) If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) What have you been watching lately? #LastFourWatched #LetterBoxdFriday
neutral · AI labelView post →TRIVIA: ‘Before I Wake’ director/co-writer Mike Flanagan reportedly objected to the film being marketed as a "horror movie," and instead referred to it as a "fable" or a "supernatural drama." (IMDB) 🖤
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie # 10 - Before I Wake (2016) One of the few Mike Flanagan movies I haven’t seen yet. #100horrormoviesin92days #horrorsky
neutral · AI labelView post →OTHER MOMMY is a fascinating mess that ultimately doesn't work; it's never the movie that trailers sell. Anyone with a soft spot for Andy Muschietti's MAMA or Mike Flanagan's BEFORE I WAKE might actually be into this one.
neutral · AI labelView post →WOW! I am only four years older than Jacob! He was one of the great child actors, bringing solid performance after solid performance every time (after The Smurfs 2). The first film of his I ever saw was Before I Wake. It is a definite recommend on Netflix if you still haven't seen it!
positive · AI labelView post →The Criterion Channel got an Argentinian Noir movie that I've been struggling for over a year to track down. It was well worth the effort and time to see. My ★★★★★ review of If I Should Die Before I Wake on Letterboxd boxd.it/8IvdOF
neutral · AI labelView post →9am TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social 👌One a Watch👌 The 1947 #FilmNoir #Crime Drama Film🎥”The Lady From Shanghai” directed, produced & written by Orson Welles Based on Raymond Sherwood King’s 1938 novel📖 “If I Die Before I Wake” 🌟 Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane
neutral · AI labelView post →My next newsletter comes out this weekend and in it I'll be revealing a never-before-seen deleted first chapter of my debut IF I DIE BEFORE I WAKE 😱. Sign up to read it and find out all my latest book and film recs including this one! emilykoch.co.uk/newsletter
neutral · AI labelView post →#100HorrorMoviesin92Days Day 2, Movie 8 My ★★★½ review of Before I Wake on Letterboxd boxd.it/aArGbX
positive · AI labelView post →#NowWatching Before I Wake on @shudder.com #FilmSky #MovieSky #Horror Not sure how I missed that this was a Flanagan film.
neutral · AI labelView post →⬆️ Fine performances, mood, atmosphere and suspense in this two-segment film. Now it seems I have a movie to watch for another day that was initially going to be a third segment, IF I SHOULD DIE BEFORE I WAKE. #NoirAlley #noir
neutral · AI labelView post →honestly, i really liked Flanagan's first film Absentia, it had a lot of promise and there's a shot or two that really gets under my skin in Before I Wake, but that's it, that's all his work has ever done for me.
negative · AI labelView post →Can't remember who recommended Before I Wake, but it's a really interesting movie!! I like the concept and how it all played out 👀 #thevoidspeaks
positive · AI labelView post →Watched for @flanaganswakepod.bsky.social #horrorsky #flanaganswake #filmsky #beforeiwake #horror #mikeflanagan
neutral · AI labelView post →My hotel has movie posters for @mikeflanaganfilm.com's Before I Wake hanging in it.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched SI MUERO ANTES DE DESPERTAR (1952) aka If I Should Die Before I Wake, what was supposed to be the third story in Never Open That Door. A very dark story involving children, can’t say I liked as much as earlier film.
negative · AI labelView post →Soften up a horror film: Before I Wake and Bake
neutral · AI labelView post →DO YOU WIPE MY MEMORY BEFORE I WAKE UP IN 1981 SO I CAN SEE EVERY GREAT FILM AND TV SERIES AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME? Or do I have to go back and watch it in shitty definition and ONLY WHEN IT IS ON TELEVISION when NOW I CAN WATCH IT WHENEVER?
neutral · AI labelView post →Before I Wake So I think this might be the Mike Flanagan movie I like the most so far?
positive · AI labelView post →#Hooptober 12 Film 24/31: "Before I Wake (2016)" Not my favorite Flanagan work, but I liked the bedtime story feel to the horror. The utilization of butterfly imagery was a uniquely comforting choice. boxd.it/booSFp #horror #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Day 7: Before I Wake (2016) Keep seeing this movie on my recommended for Netflix and seeing that it’s directed by Mike Flanagan I’m willing to give this one a go #BeforeIWake #31DaysOfHorror #31DaysofHalloween
neutral · AI labelView post →At Splice Today I took a look at the Argentinian noir movie If I Should Die Before I Wake, an excellent nightmarish movie about children and adults. A little like Night Of the Hunter, which is one of the highest praises I can imagine. www.splicetoday.com/moving-pictu...
neutral · AI labelView post →oh. this movie, Absentia, and Before I Wake are literally the only Flanagans I haven’t seen. Midnight Mass is my favorite of his Netflix series and one of my all-time favorites!
neutral · AI labelView post →My ★★★★★ review of If I Should Die Before I Wake on Letterboxd boxd.it/7PgUCR Originally intended as the 3rd part of noir anthology Never Open That Door, this film is amazing. Focused on a young boy who knows the truth of a classmates murder. Argentina film classic and one of my fav discoveries.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight on Noir Alley on TCM #TCM #NoirAlley NEVER OPEN THAT DOOR and IF I SHOULD DIE BEFORE I WAKE (1952) Two (or really three) Argentine films noir from director Carlos Hugo Christensen. Christensen planned to make an anthology film based on three stories by Cornell Woolrich.
neutral · AI labelView post →Mirasal doodle. I got inspired by the film "Before I Wake" and imagined Mina creating light effects even while in the womb. #oc #sketch #wip
neutral · AI labelView post →Me either. I checked back and someone solved it. The OP says it was If I Die Before I Wake. I've never heard of it but I may see about trying to watch it soon. letterboxd.com/film/if-i-di...
neutral · AI labelView post →10:20pm TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social 👌One to Watch👌 The 1947 #FilmNoir #Crime Drama Film🎥 “THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI” directed, produced & written by Orson Welles Based on Raymond Sherwood King’s 1938 novel📖 “If I Die Before I Wake” 🌟 Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane
neutral · AI labelView post →I have a feeling this'll one day be a real band. It'd be like the Before I Wake movie, a dream manifested to reality. Lol
neutral · AI labelView post →Ok today’s movie were A Night at the Roxbury, Before I Wake and Waterworld
neutral · AI labelView post →Have you seen his 2016 movie "Before I Wake"?
neutral · AI labelView post →Now watching If I Should Die Before I Wake, 1952. youtu.be/MzQAUu9Oqng?...
neutral · AI labelView post →(this movie is excellent, incidentally — sort of bizarre in that it's a two-story anthology, but, think of it like two of the best episodes of Hitchcock Presents you'll see) (I believe what was intended as the third part became the STELLAR standalone movie If I Should Die Before I Wake (1952)
neutral · AI labelView post →This kid better behave himself, or he will be punished for sho, YO! (Before I Wake, 2016 movie)
neutral · AI labelView post →five* fav non-American B&W movies Le Trou If I Should Die Before I Wake Gojira Cairo Station Odd Man Out The Third Man Alice in the Cities Rififi Wild Strawberries Walk Up, The Novelist's Film,Hotel by the River Seven Samurai Tokyo Story A Colt Is My Passport Assault on the Pay Train Cléo5-7 *feh!
neutral · AI labelView post →If I Should Die Before I Wake (1952, d. Christensen) Great film about a boy whose first girlfriend in school is murdered. He knows who the suspect is but having sworn a vow of silence with the girl, can’t give evidence. 1/2?
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched "Before I Wake" tonight, loved it, and then realized why: it's a Mike Flanagan film.
positive · AI labelView post →Movie Log - 13 Feb 2025 (II) IF I DIE BEFORE I WAKE [SI MUERO ANTES DE DESPERTAR] Carlos Hugo Christensen - Argentina, 1952 #CriterionChannel
neutral · AI labelView post →Most of what I watch on Netflix are series, but I just watched Before I Wake, which is a movie, and really liked it. Bit of a tearjerker though. Another one on Netflix I liked (if you are into scary) was The Ritual.
positive · AI labelView post →“Never Open That Door” & “If I Should Die Before I Wake.” These are 2 great film noir from Argentina. They are 3 different stories that were made into 2 movies.
neutral · AI labelView post →New Podcast Episode Up! Journey with a Cinephile - Episode 270 New Year, New Movie #19 Featured Reviews of The Fourth Victim and The Damned Mini-reviews: You Are Not Me, Thou Shalt Kill, The Phantom of the Opera (1925), Stoker and Before I Wake. Plus a trio of shorts - Sundays With Dad, After
neutral · AI labelView post →If you like beautiful horror-dramas, you might also enjoy the film "Before I Wake." Right up there with The Babadook for modern horror, didn't get nearly as much attention as it deserved.
positive · AI labelView post →Checking out Before I Wake to cross off another Flanagan movie off the list.
neutral · AI labelView post →Nope, not by my estimation. His weakest work is probably Before I Wake, maybe? And I still dig that movie overall.
neutral · AI labelView post →61. Before I Wake (2018) Re-Watch. spongey444.wordpress.com/2019/01/26/t... Better review coming soon lol
neutral · AI labelView post →A picture of a blue butterfly with no antennae is on the wall of the hotel room Luke and Joey stay in. Blue butterflies without antennae feature in Mike Flanagan's previous film Before I Wake (2016).
neutral · AI labelView post →The (movie) Before I Wake 1080p (iTunes)(DE) €3.99 (Horror) (iMDB) 6.1 Cast: Kate Bosworth, Thomas Jane, Annabeth Gish, Dash Mihok, Scottie Thompson, Jacob Tremblay
neutral · AI labelView post →Some people say, always bet on James Cameron but I tend to say always bet on Mike Flanagan. Like, he made Doctor Sleep work. Hell, he made an Ouija prequel work. Even his weakest film Before I Wake Up is still pretty good.
positive · AI labelView post →The movie Before I Wake! 👀 Also Donnie Darko, classic fhdgf
neutral · AI labelView post →Spooky Season (where I watch one horror, thriller, or supernatural movie a day) Day 53(September 22nd): Before I Wake on Netflix. Wonderful.
positive · AI labelView post →Before I Wake Review - Reviews
neutral · AI labelView post →Guys I need to see more people give love to the “Before I Wake” movie.. PLEAASEE ITS SUCH A GOOD HORROR MOVIE WATCHIT WATCH IT WATCH ITTTT ITS GOOD I SWEAARRR ITS GOOOD!1!!1 STARTSCRYING
positive · AI labelView post →That story is done. According to IMDB… it is in production for a movie. Same story author that wrote Before I Wake (which was not bad, I enjoyed it for a not scary to me horror movie. www.imdb.com/title/tt3658... www.imdb.com/title/tt3174...
positive · AI labelView post →Okay, don't watch this movie alone at night Before I Wake (2016)
neutral · AI labelView post →This movie fucking RULES — IF I SHOULD DIE BEFORE I WAKE (1952)
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm wondering if I should give Before I Wake another watch. I didn't hate it or anything, but it's the only Mike Flanagan movie I didn't connect with. Is it weaker than the others? Or is it just that I don't like Kate Bosworth?
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie #5: I rated Before I Wake (2016) 8/10 www.imdb.com/title/tt3174...
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