'Sleep Tight' Trailer – Don't Trust The Doorman

Fresh off his critically acclaimed zombie flick [Rec] and the somewhat less beloved [Rec] 2, Jaume Balaguero has directed Sleep Tight (or Mientras Duermes in Spanish), a horror film about a sinister doorman who knows everything about his residents and does everything in his power to make them miserable. Watch the trailer after the jump.

[via Twitch]

For once, I'm glad I can't afford to live in a doorman building.

Judging by the trailer, Sleep Tight looks less scary than chilling. The terror here seems to come less from nasty twists or graphic gore (though I'm sure there'll be some of that, too) than from the film's creepy main character and its dark, disturbing vibe. Sleep Tight seems in some ways like it could be a good complement to the upcoming Sleeping Beauty — they're different genres, but they share an attractive moodiness, and both are about terrible things that happen while you're asleep.

Sleep Tight stars Luis Tosar, Marta Etura and Alberto San Juan. No U.S. release date has been announced at this point.

Synopsis:

Cesar works as a doorman in a Barcelona apartment building. Happiness eludes him and he feels the need to reaffirm his reasons for living on a daily basis. He goes about his day to day work mainly unnoticed by the residents of the building, but he pays close attention to them. He knows all the intimate details of their lives, everything about them, especially one of them. Clara is a happy-go-lucky young woman, who always looks on the positive side of things. Her cheery attitude to life makes Cesar' skin crawl. He won't be happy until he has wiped that smile of her face once and for all, because Cesar feeds off other people's pain. He delights in the unhappiness and anguish of others and he loves nothing more than to plant the seed of misery and watch it grow. In Clara he has found the perfect target, and he will go to extreme lengths to make her life miserable. But Cesar is starting to get a bit too cocky, and soon his carefully thought out plans will start to unravel... Luckily for him, he has one last ace up his sleeve.