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Easy to follow, linear plot, suitable to be watched as entertainment.

Another exorcism movie with a cliche story. Plothole? yes. Recommended to watch? depend on your purpose of watching, throw all of high expectations, sit still, enjoy this as a tale and watch.

Come on people, it's a movie about someone that's demon possessed! You don't think religion should be involved? Maybe you should give the demon possessed person Ambien? Should they go out in the sun to get extra vitamin D?! LOL this was actually better than most movies like this. They were only a couple things that should've been left out. Overall really good for a supernatural horror thriller. Most of them suck.

You know who the bad guy is. You know the girl will be hell bent on saving the brother. And you know everyone else will die in order for her to save him. Haha Still I enjoyed it

Production is higher/better than a lot of cheap horror movies, but so much was lame. Acting wasn't terrible but the script isn't great, and the plot was poorly executed - the idea had great potential but it flaked out. Giving it a one or two really isn't fair. I have seen so, so much worse. But a 9 or 10 is fake.

I was torn between giving it a 3 or a 4. Initially rated it 3, but just watched a movie so much worse that I decided it's worth a 4 just for production values and acting had some merit. I finished it, that's something. But a 6 is extremely generous or maybe they're just stupid, and anybody says 8, 9, or 10 is a liar, or maybe really, really stupid and has never watched movies.

My biggest problem was with stupid, unreasonable behavior by allegedly intelligent medical interns.

There are 3 patients with sleep disorders in a secret/forgotten basement of a medical university being illegally treated by a doctor with unapproved drugs. They are all in the same room, with an observation window. Only one is a woman and she has 'night terrors'. She is obviously afraid of the new patient, the brother of the female lead CJ a medical intern. He has fatal familial insomnia and their mom had it. He acts like he's possessed, sitting on the edge of the bed hunched over with the bones in his back pushing out, his eyes changed color - more than once - I guess nobody standing all around him noticed, he's murmuring in an evil voice with an evil smile - all of which his sister shrugs off, looking confused, oh well. The female patient grabs CJ, crying hysterically, she is terrified and says she's scared and she wants to leave -but CJ basically shoves her back down on the bed and says 'you'll be fine once you get your meds' then leaves the room and LOCKS the door. So I guess that means the patients are at the mercy of whack a doo doctor & company, can't just walk out if they want to. If it had been me I would have walked out the room as soon as the door opened, and punched anybody who tried to stop me - this lady just whimpered and did nothing. The lady patient then climbs onto the back of a chair and puts a chain with a kind of noose around her neck, smiles and says in a demon voice "this is for you CJ" while CJ stands in the now open door and says NO! but otherwise has stopped in the doorway and never rushes to try and stop her from hanging herself, instead watches her step off the chair, shirks back and bursts into tears and then does absolutely nothing to stop her from strangling to death. Self hanging doesn't cause instant death. She doesn't even call for help, I'm not even sure she tells anyone immediately. Her crazy brother is sitting there like a grinning moron and there is another male patient in a bed in the room with headphones on who looks young and strong- he could have helped hold the woman up to avoid strangulation, but he has his back turned and CJ doesn't ask for help. Headphone guy (another review called him sleepy John Wick - I recognized who he meant as soon as I saw him) never says a word throughout the movie, but is usually awake and watching, but never does anything but stare with an unhappy expression.

Even later when they 'try' to leave to take the body out, the doctor and all 3 interns are prepared to go in the elevator with the stretcher, but they left Sleepy John Wick and possessed brother back in the room with chain nooses hanging off the ceiling.

Nobody tells anybody anything important, CJ sees an old VHS tape of her mother possessed and tearing pages out of a bible, when her brother does the exact same thing in exactly the same way - she doesn't act like there's any connection. Even after she sees him muttering weird things and appears to make the lady with night terrors have a terrible dream & she jumps awake and starts crying and looking at him in fear - then begs to leave, CJ shrugs it off and never even told anybody she wanted to leave. Who does that? Even after he grabs Cj by the throat and says LL KILL YOU in a demon voice, she takes no action. Seeing him muttering incantations in an ancient language, probably latin in a demonic voice, she can't put 2 and 2 together. Even though it was obvious he's dangerous, she leaves another patient alone in the room with him. I mean really pretty much everything is her fault for being so stubbornly stupid, irresponsible and selfish.

Also I have to wonder why a room with 3 sleep deprived patients who may show erratic behavior has 3 chain nooses hanging off the ceiling. I can't think of any reason hanging chains looped around to create a slide noose like a dog's choke chain would be hanging off the ceiling.

The elevator won't work, the staircase has collapsed, there is no phone out, cell phones don't work, and nobody knows that place exists - how did she get out?

NOT A TEN, not a 5, no more than a 4 - but at least a 3, I mean hey it's no 'Ouija Shark' 1 star.

The story was very good and it was presented very well, good acting ,reminded me of slumber but it was about not sleeping instead. When the demon came out its body is seemed it was off something like scooby doo.

I wasn't expecting the blend of found-footage cinematic storytelling. LOVE possession movies, but to work they need to have interesting characters and chilling atmosphere, luckily this doesn't disappoint with a family drama at the centre of the conflict. Good performances and production design. Most possession films these days are set in old family homes and estates, like the conjuring saga. I enjoyed the different take. Also don't google the disease, the videos are pretty frightening.

The movie was actually not bad, if it wasn't for the horrible main character, I'd give it a solid 7 but I hated her so much I was compelled to write this review.

The main character, KJ is so stupid, borderline intellectually disabled, it's unbelievable she survived till the end of the movie.

While trying to perform an exorcism the first time, not only did she not prepare the page she had to read from, but she was reading slower than a first-grader studying English as a second language.

During the read-off battle with the "bad guy", Rob, instead of trying to read the exorcism as fast as possible, she was literally waiting for Rob to finish reading his release-the-demon-from-his-human-prison spell. What is this? A turn-based RPG?

I was rooting for her to somehow die but unfortunately she survived. Guess her stupidity got her what she deserved in the end.

P. S. Apart from incredibly stupid, she was also incredibly annoying, her personality was absolutely terrible.

1. A very well - resourced basement hospital ward facility on a university campus with power and lighting and no - one else knows anything about it? Yeah right!

2 The main characters just cruise down into it, never bothering to check for potential exits, fire escapes etc. And BTW, when they find themselves locked into said facility, nobody, unbelievably, seems to have a mobile phone.

3 Who's providing all the food, general nursing to the three patients? None of the 4 medical staff we see appear to do anything except write a note in the odd book and watch videos.

4 The so - called secret compartment with the video camera and tapes is conveniently discovered virtually the minute the 2 women walk into the room.

5 Hilariously even though the very first tape they watch incriminates their senior colleague Dr Robert straight up, they do nothing at all about it, though the obvious thing to do, would be to both confront and question him.

6 This rather stupid acquiescence on both their parts, even extends to them both happily accepting that the lift is actually faulty and Robert has actually contacted authorities about having them extracted from the basement facility. They're not in the least suspicious. LOL!

7 During the lockdown stage of the movie, when more discoveries are made and further videos are watched, Robert just seems to disappear from the facility. He's offscreen for some 20 - 30 minutes and no one seems to care or be curious, even though other characters are up to their necks in deep doggy do - do.

8 And what happened to that third patient, the male one who never spoke? He just seems to be completely forgotten about. Why bother even sticking him in the movie?

This is another of those hopeful indi type, low budget horror features, that have an underlying reasonably interesting premise, but then try to achieve success on the back of some really lazy, screen writing. This results in Awoken being more distracting, than frightening, despite some more than competent acting on the part of the cast. A disappointment!