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This movie does a great job at making you feel like you're a kid again in your bedroom late at night paranoid if something is in your closet or not! It's a fast movie( only around 30-35mins!) It does a good job though of making you feel like you're in a nightmare! What was that sound?? Is that just a sweatshirt in the floor?? Or is it something more sinister? What is making that shadow? Is there a monster in the room with you? Should you run to your parents room? Or do you suck it up and try and sleep??? Definitely worth a watch if you want to relive that feeling you had as a kid again of being afraid of the dark!!

Imagine Kubrick had a child with Skinamarink and you will be presented by this. Absolute nightmare fuel on the best way possible.

The movie does a great job of taking you back to your childhood.

That absolute dreaded fear of the dark where you couldn't tell if the dark shapes on the room were actually scary monsters. It makes you feel like you are a kid again and it's actually frightening.

The special effects and make up are excellent on this film.

The editing is wonderful and the actors also do a fantastic job.

I would highly recommend everyone go to watch this if you want to watch a decent film.

This is a good film! It's a 34 minute short film where they put interviews in with the director/cast to just push it over feature length, I assume to get it on the streaming platforms. Definitely worth a watch...it's basically just a kid's fear of the dark/nightmare that we can probably all relate to.

Since the interview with the cast and crew is part of the film I will make a comment on it. The director said he would love to do this as a feature length film, but I think this would drag a LOT if this was pushed to 90 minutes. There would definitely need to be some additional plot points added, and I think this works as a short just fine!

"Mr. Sandman" follows the short story of a child (which, by the way, she's the cutest ever) that doesn't do what is told and well, she pays for it (or does she not?). Horror, amiright?

So, let's go with why you're going to love it. The first factor is that it's simple (in a good way). Honestly, I'm a bit tired of difficult stories which I don't even get to fully understand. This one, you can relate. We've all been kids and some of us have kids, which is even more enlightening to make you remember how unbearable we were as kids. You know you would COMPLETELY be that kid.

Secondly, who is Mr. Sandman? Do we really get to unfold this dark figure? Sandman's fairytale, for those who don't know yet, tells the story of a terrifying figure who throws sand into children's eyes if they won't go to sleep, making their eyes fall out. He then collects those eyes and feeds them to his own children who live in the moon.

Schmidt keeps it really dark and suspenseful, playing with blacks and voids of the scene. The child is a really good actress, she doesn't look like a kid trying to act (you know what I mean), she genuinely looks terrified and kind of... hypnotized at some points in the film.

We have a (horrific) jump from one of the characters when you think you're too smart and you know what's next. I loved that. I also very much appreciated the "kid's" show they are watching at night on the TV. Have you ever played the videogame "Little Nightmares?" If you haven't, GO DO IT. It's the bestest and saddestest game you'll ever play. Well, the show they are watching, reminds me so much of the atmosphere that videogame evokes. It's an element of our past (past, past), which awakens a ton of nostalgia, mixed with the creepiness of what we used to watch as kids, the scary song, disturbing animatronic-wannabe scenarios and... the dark of the night.

We have the grandmother, who prophesies Mr. Sandman's threat. We don't see her a lot, but her intervention is crucial for the viewer to understand what's going on.

Everything occurs in a normal, what seems to be a small family house. It's silent, dark, and not creepy by sight but by atmosphere. The tension is constant although Schmidt loosens up here and there so you guard down.

A monster you can't escape from (or so they say), a kid who learns a lesson, two awkward parents who play a 'puppet' role (not literal), and an indoor hunt where you can run nowhere.

This film has sown different horror elements into a fabric that's very easy to enjoy. It pulls several nostalgia strings and it's really creepy which, at the end, that's what we're here for, aren't we?