
Jack, a young actor facing a tough luck in his acting career decides to sell his soul to the devil in exchange for fame and success.
"WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO SACRIFICE?!!!!" "EVERYTHING!!!!!" This is but one of a multitude of highly emphatic questions, and subsequent answers, being asked in the newest feature film from one of the current masters of horror, Jordan Peele ("Get Out", "Us" and "Nope"). I must give Peele credit in that he continues to push the boundaries of specific genres and their associated tropes in order to provide what ends up amounting to subtly then jarringly intense, yet still character and story-driven, cinema that speaks more to indie stylings than mainstream.
The cultural insensitivity of 'Slumberland' is discreet, and can be easily overlooked in CGI extravaganza.
Despite the film’s efforts to reframe its heroine with modern complexity, a certain emotional distance lingers.
Wacky antics ensue when a 100-year-old Jewish man wakes up from a pickled hibernation in the modern world.