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Do you remember the first time you realized that you were capable of hurting a loved one? The makers of the ambitious, but ultimately misconceived horror drama Don t Sleep wrestle with that profound, formative trauma. Writer/director Rick Bieber announces the severity and portentousness of his film s main theme by kicking off Don t Sleep with a Nietzsche quote about the burden of identifying with the darker aspects of your personality. This is minutes after we re treated to a Z-grade quality dream sequence where a little boy named Zach (Dash Williams) wanders around a foggy marsh. Before he wakes up, Zach is taunted by a bald crone, shown the rotting, British-quality teeth of a little girl wearing a sack-cloth mask, and then assaulted by a sickly-looking evil twin. When Zach wakes up, he is taken to the office of inappropriately chipper therapist Dr. Summers (Cary Elwes), and told that he s just having bad dreams, so why be scared of some bad nocturnal emissions? ....