After its premiere at the Malaga Film Festival and a discreet release in cinemas at the end of May, The Sleeping Woman seems to have finally found its audience upon its arrival on streaming, where it has entered directly into the second position of the most viewed movies ranking on Max in the last week.

This psychological thriller with hints of supernatural horror, directed by Laura Alvea, follows  Ana (Almudena Amor), a woman who decided to study nursing to help others. Now, she works as a caregiver for Sara (Amanda Goldsmith), a woman who is in a vegetative state.

Initially, everything goes well, she arrives at the house, does her job, and leaves. This goes on until she starts developing feelings for Agustín (Javier Rey), the husband of the woman she cares for, with whom she starts a relationship.

From that moment on, Ana will start to experience episodes where she loses consciousness and believes she sees Sara awake, and she will be haunted by strange paranormal phenomena that seem to be trying to drive her out of the house and separate her from Agustín.

The cast is completed by Yaneli Hernández (Manuela), Alicia Lobo (Marta), Pino Montesdeoca (Sofía), Vera Curbelo (Clara), Leo Venosa (Lucas) and features a script written by Daniel González, Miguel Ibáñez Monroy, and Marta Armengol, in which Laura Alvea has also collaborated.

"I grew up loving mystery and suspense movies, so embarking on The Sleeping Woman allows me to explore a universe that has always fascinated me. In the purest style of classic cinema, where characters and their secrets are the key piece for everything to revolve around, tension and intrigue will be the guiding thread of this movie with which we hope to seduce genre lovers," explained the director at the Malaga Film Festival.

Among her influences, she mentions directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, Brian de Palma, or Stanley Kubrick. "I watched their movies as a girl and I was fascinated by them. They made me fall in love with cinema," she recalls. From the new wave of horror cinema, she also mentions female directors like Jennifer Kent, who directed The Babadook, or Julia Ducournau, author of Titan.

A perfect thriller for the summer

Set in an isolated house in a small island town and with few characters, The Sleeping Woman features a solid cast that will delight the viewer with constant twists and a surprising ending that will leave them open-mouthed. 

Now that Hollywood seems to have stopped betting on adult thrillers that were so successful in the nineties, this Spanish proposal is a fantastic opportunity for genre fans to enjoy suspense and the best narrative mechanisms of these types of movies.

*This article has been automatically translated using artificial intelligence