Not yet rated. Running time: 103 minutes.

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ABOUT THE GUESTS

William Malone (Writer, Director, Executive Producer)

At 19, William Malone arrived in Los Angeles and took a job at Don Post Studios, one of the world's busiest Halloween mask and costume shops. Modeling and designing by day, attending UCLA cinema lectures by night, Malone quickly established himself as a premiere mask maker. Within his first few years at DPS, he was made Vice-President and Head Designer. While there, he created a whole line of Horror and Science Fiction masks that sold worldwide. One of the most famous would become the face of Michael Myers in the 70’s horror classic Halloween by John Carpenter. By the mid 80s, the filmmaking bug was too much to ignore. His first feature film, the Alien-inspired Scared to Death, was made on a budget of $80,000 and reached #16 on the U.S. Box Office charts, almost unheard of at the time for such a low budget. Three years later, he directed Klaus Kinski in the indie science fiction thriller, Creature.
 
Although he worked diligently in television, where he directed for such shows as Perversions of Science, Dream On, and New York Undercover, and hone in his screenwriting craft, selling two of his stories that would later become the premises for the films Universal Soldier 2 and Supernova, Malone was getting enormously frustrated with the feature film business which stalled many of his projects in years of development hell. He was going to abandon his film ambitions when one of those uncanny golden opportunities to shine occurred. That moment was a chance to direct an episode of the evocative HBO television horror anthology Tales From the Crypt. Recommended by producer Gil Adler and encouraged by fellow filmmaker Robert Zemeckis, Malone dove into this creepy, terrifying tale of a single man with a history of violent behavior that picks up the wrong girl at a cocktail party. Featuring some truly amazing performances, dazzling camera work and, appropriately, the creepiest mask you've ever seen, Malone's episode, entitled "Only Skin Deep," was so well received that it was nominated for a cable ACE award and producer Joel Silver hired him to make his major studio debut and direct the remake of House on Haunted Hill. That 1999 film version of the William Castle classic, which starred Jeffrey Rush and Famke Jenson, along with a star studded supporting cast, broke box-office records for a Halloween opening, and grossed 100 million world wide. The strength of that film propelled Malone towards a second film, the dark supernatural thriller FeardotCom, which was shot in Europe and released in 2002. The latter film was savaged by critics for it's screenplay, but Roger Ebert, writing in the Chicago Sun Times, lauded Malone for his visual artistry, which made the film a treat to watch. Malone also won the Silver Melies Award for Fantastic Films in Europe, given at the Milan Film Festival.

Both House on Haunted Hill and FeardotCom gave Malone the opportunity and the budget to fashion his signature horrific worlds from scratch. While both of these films bear his unique stylistic stamp, he longed to have even more creative freedom to make stories that are more in keeping with his imaginative and quirky sensibilities. The producers over at Masters of Horror provided Malone with that opportunity, and the results were a film which Entertainment Tonight film critic Leonard Maltin described as "creepy, genuinely scary… stylish and skillfully made", internet horror domiciles, Dread Central and The Horror Channel called it "the Perfect Dark Fairy Tale" and the great reviews kept coming. Encouraged, yet determined to keep his creative freedom, Malone has turned toward the world of indie filmmaking for his new project Parasomnia... A unique entry into the genre, one Malone hopes will give audiences world-wide a fresh and entertaining experience.

Christian Sebaldt, ASC (Director of Photography)

Raised in Munich, Germany, Christian Sebaldt worked as a trainee at the Bavaria Studios and Lab from 1976-1978. Fondly considering the facility his home, he spent time in every department, including the visual effects unit, gaining experience that later served him well on such effects-heavy features as Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Bratz, Starship Troopers 2, Species 3, Feardotcom, Race to Space, The Dark and others. 
 
Although he was already entrenched in the film industry, Sebaldt's love for the craft was cemented when he worked on Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Lili Marleen in 1980. During that time, Sebaldt vowed to be in Hollywood by the time he was 25, and, true to his word, on his 25th birthday he arrived in Los Angeles where he currently resides with his wife and child. 
 
Christian Sebaldt has compiled more than 25 feature credits and has also photographed television shows, music videos, network promos, commercials, telefilms and documentaries. His work as a Director of Photography has taken him to many European countries as well as Asia, Africa, Canada, Mexico and all over the United States.  
 
To find out more about Christian, visit his website at: www.shortstackfilmworks.com.

Patrick KilPatrick (Actor, "Bryan Volpe")

After nearly dying in a car crash as a teenager, Patrick KilPatrick rehabilitated to largely do his own stunts in 100+ films and TV projects. His action film appearances span a multitude of genres and embrace an international Who’s Who of leading men: he’s starred opposite Tom Cruise in Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report, opposite Chow Yun Fat in Replacement Killers, Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Caan in Eraser, Bruce Willis in Last Man Standing, Presidio opposite Sean Connery and Mark Harmon, Steven Segal in Under Seige 2, two award-winning and highly rated original cable westerns opposite Tom Selleck, Last Stand at Saber River and Crossfire Trail, one western opposite Sam Elliot and Kate Capshaw – HBO’s Premiere Films adaptation of Louis L’Amour’s The Quick and the Dead, and the ever-popular action mainstay, Death Warrant, opposite Jean Claude Van Dammer, as The Sandman. He has even done battle with the largest mammal on Earth in Free Willy 3. The versatile KilPatrick has played leads in everything from American Playhouse to a film debut in Nick Roeg’s masterwork, Insignificance, to Shakespeare’s Anthony and Cleopatra at the Los Angeles Theater Center in the hands of Academy Award-winning director Tony Richardson.

Cherilyn Rae Wilson (Actor, "Laura Baxter")
 
With Parasomnia now finished, Cherilyn Wilson marks the completion of three feature films in a year. The stylish thriller is set for release soon, as are two other independent features in which Ms. Wilson plays a leading role --  the comedy, Extreme Movie and the horror-thriller, Chain Letter. Emerging from early experiences in San Francisco theatre, she is currently shooting a recurring character role on the set of the all-new 90210 series (WB, on The CW network).  Among her consistent television credits are six episodes of the HBO-produced 12 Miles of Bad Road.

In Parasomnia (Dreams of the Sleepwalker), Cherilyn carries the lead role, as a young girl hospitalized with a rare sleeping beauty disease, which causes spontaneous respites from tormented sleep. As Laura Baxter, she portrays the innocence and vulnerability of an awakening child to a new world. There she meets a young man and falls in love. Simultaneously learning to overcome her fears in order to survive, in the terribly frightening world of her dreams.