Grief, guilt and a shattering car accident blur into something far stranger in Sleepwalker, a 2026 psychological thriller about a mother who can no longer trust her own mind.
What is Sleepwalker about?
A car accident leaves a mother without her daughter and leaves her abusive husband in a coma, and from that single night, her world stops making sense. Haunted by visions she cannot explain and unable to fully process what happened, she starts to lose her grip on where memory ends and nightmare begins. The film sits inside her unraveling perspective, letting the audience feel the same disorientation she does as ordinary moments curdle into something threatening. Rather than building toward a single scare, Sleepwalker traces a slow psychological unraveling, using the ambiguity between what's real and what's imagined as its central tension. It's a story about the aftermath of trauma as much as it is a thriller.
About the cast
Hayden Panettiere leads the film alongside Justin Chatwin, with Beverly D'Angelo, Mischa Barton, Lori Tan Chinn, Eric Lutes and Kea Ho and Laird LaCoste completing the ensemble. The cast leans on performers well practiced in psychological and suspense-driven roles, which suits a story that lives almost entirely inside one woman's fraying state of mind.
Context & significance
Director Brandon Auman keeps Sleepwalker tightly focused, running 89 minutes in a genre built for economy over spectacle. The film is a United States production categorized as a thriller, and its short runtime works in its favor, sustaining a sense of claustrophobic dread without padding the central mystery. Domestic trauma and psychological horror overlap throughout, giving the film a heavier emotional register than a typical genre entry.
Watching Sleepwalker on Ktime
Sleepwalker streams on K-Time with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so Farsi-speaking viewers can choose whichever fits how they like to watch. The page is open to browse and read without signing in, and starting the film itself only requires a free K-Time account. K-Time's Farsi-first platform serves the Iranian diaspora, and psychological thrillers like this one sit alongside a growing library of international titles.