Ahlam hakekya is an Egyptian film that takes one of the best giallo plots for its story: Mariam (Hanan Turk) is a painter married to Ahmed (Khaled Saleh) but her life is filled with strangeness, as every night she dreams of the car accident that took the lives of her daughter and first husband. Of course, as you can expect from a movie inspired by giallo, she also starts dreaming of murdering people and when she wakes up, those same people have died the same way as her sleeping visions.
The police get involved and suspect Mariam's best friend Maay, which raises the question if Mariam is also part of the crimes or if she's somehow connected to Maay within the world of dreams. This all makes Marian go female giallo crazy and decide that she's never going to sleep again.
Ask Nancy Thompson how well that works.
Director Mohamed Gomaa also worked on the TV series Qariat El Fingan in which a fortune telling app's prophecies start coming true. Real Dreams was written by Mohamed Diab, who directed four episodes of Marvel's Moon Knight series.
The police get involved and suspect Mariam's best friend Maay, which raises the question if Mariam is also part of the crimes or if she's somehow connected to Maay within the world of dreams. This all makes Marian go female giallo crazy and decide that she's never going to sleep again.
Ask Nancy Thompson how well that works.
Director Mohamed Gomaa also worked on the TV series Qariat El Fingan in which a fortune telling app's prophecies start coming true. Real Dreams was written by Mohamed Diab, who directed four episodes of Marvel's Moon Knight series.
