The Man in the Shadows (2017)

Directed by

Joshua Fraiman

Genre

horror film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 29m

Rated

NR

Rating

4.3 of 10 from 31 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A newlywed photographer struggling with prescription drug addiction starts seeing a dark figure in a brimmed hat that follows her from nightmares into real life. She gets help from a man who researches the phenomenon. The story is based on reports of shadow people linked to sleep paralysis.

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What happens

The Man in the Shadows (US/UK video release: The Shadow Man) is a 2015 Canadian supernatural horror film, the first feature film directed by Joshua Fraiman and written by co-star and co-producer Adam Tomlinson, based on a personal experience, as well as on reports by "millions of people around the world" of so-called shadow people, a phenomenon associated with sleep paralysis. The plot centres around a prescription drug-addicted newlywed photographer (Sarah Jurgens) who appears to be stalked by a dark man in a brimmed hat who follows her from her nightmares into reality. Rachel is aided by William (Adam Tomlinson) who has been investigating the "Hat Man" phenomenon. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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