![]() While many of these torture scenes are twisted and gory enough to turn the stomachs of the most seasoned veterans of the genre, the vicious brutality somehow manages to be just about the only good part of the movie. And so on and so forth until the combination of sleeplessness and trauma leave her a quivering, speechless mess who will kill anyone she is placed in a room with. She is forced to play a trivia game against an opponent with a sack over her head in which the loser is killed. A voice on the loudspeaker purporting to be her aborted child orders her to fish a baby doll out of a bucket of human remains. Once the basics are established, we discover that pretty much all the parts of Mila’s day are really just different forms of torture. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to Mila, the entire experiment will be live-streamed to some dark web chat room where the administrators can comment on their progress, and other sick randos can provide the sort of deranged stream-of-consciousness nattering and vitriol that you might see on your average YouTube video of a six-year-old’s birthday party. Shortly after her arrival, a voice comes in over the loudspeaker to explain the rules of her captivity: there will be no sleeping, and her days will be rigorously segmented into such blocks as Morning Routine, Exercise, Morning Activities, Entertainment, and Virtual Reality Immersion. The subject of the experiment is a young woman named Mila (Polina Davydova), who spends far too much time in the opening scenes pumping gas and buying fish before getting kidnapped by a masked man (Evgeniy Gagarin), who takes her to a dingy, industrial basement. ![]() ![]() To this end, they are experimenting with a new assassination technique. The setup for Sleepless Beauty is fairly simple, yet somehow still manages to come off as unnecessarily confusing: some unidentified group wants some ambassador’s wife to kill her husband for some reason that’s probably political or whatever.
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