Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

If you can't sleep, you might as well watch a movie. If you make that movie "Chasing Sleep", you might even learn a thing a thing or two: (1) Don't skip class. Especially not if you're the professor. It'll be held against you. (2) Don't pick up the phone. Chances are it'll be trouble. (3) Don't go to the basement. Or the bathroom. There be demons. (4) Get the plumbing fixed before it's too late. And whatever it is, don't just flush it down. It's gonna come back up. (5) Don't trust pretty strangers who bring you soup. They have ulterior motives. And don't pretend we didn't warn you. (6) Don't trust your friends. They're not your friends. (7) Don't trust yourself. You're unreliable. - Finally, and most importantly, don't watch this movie alone at home at night.

"Chasing Sleep" is just another ordinary thriller and that's all. Nothing special but it has some good qualities. I just don't understand why this movie is referred as horror/thriller. What is scary in this movie? When I watch movies like this I always think of "Secret Window" with Johnny Depp and then I realize how good that movie really is. I just cannot compare "Chasing Sleep" with "Secret Window".Plot is about man who wakes up in his house and realizes that his wife didn't came to dinner. After while he decides to contact police in order to find her.There aren't many characters in this movie and whole movie is happening in house. It has that slow rhythm and it isn't interesting in all parts. Jeff Daniels is good in his role but he obviously cannot act like Johnny Depp and hold the whole movie on his back. Other actors are all from B list of actors who aren't stars but they do their job solid. Especially is good to see Julian McMahon because he acts perfectly in Nip/Tuck. I didn't like few parts of movie because I think that script in some parts isn't written good. Like that student character. She enters suddenly and goes out of the movie the same way she entered. Another thing I didn't like is that I knew how everything is going to end after 20 minutes of the film.Like I said before, ordinary thriller that can be done thousand times again but still with same effect. OK movie, but nothing more.

This movie was horrible because I had no clue what was going on at any given moment. I bought this movie strictly because Julian McMahon starred in it and he was only in the movie for like five minutes which was very disappointing. I did look forward to his scenes, though which gave me some excitement. I did not understand the plot of the movie nor the ending. Jeff Daniels played a pretty decent part considering I paid more attention to Julian McMahon's little parts. I should have rented this movie first before I bought it. If you are looking for a lot of Julian McMahon scenes, don't buy this movie. He was only in two scenes in the entire movie and you hear his voice on the telephone once. Oh, and by the way, they misspelled Julian McMahon's name on the DVD cover. They spelled it MacMahon but at the end of the movie, they spelled it McMahon.

IMHO, I think a lot of people have missed the point to this movie. What it's really about is how much trouble you can get in if you don't take care of your plumbing properly. Remember that Eve comments in her diary that Ed has been acting strangely for quite a while - this is clearly due to the unbearable burden of his plumbing problems which he is not able to handle, and which eventually drive him crazy. The murder of his wife, her unborn child, all the hallucinations, and finally the attempted suicide with all those pills - all because he didn't consult a licensed plumber in time. And on one level, of course, Ed knows this, and it is his tremendous guilt at not taking proper care of his pipes that drives him over the edge. He even anthropomorphizes his plumbing, resulting in all that blood pouring out of everywhere. (This analysis may even give one reason to reevaluate what's really happening in "The Shining".) Never have I seen a movie that so effectively drives home the importance of good plumbing maintenance.This movie should be a warning to us all.