A Spanish-American chiller built around a caregiver's slow unraveling, The Sleeping Woman pairs a hospital-drama premise with supernatural dread.
What is The Sleeping Woman about?
Ana works as a nursing assistant, tending to a woman who has lain in a coma for months. Her routine visits bring her into regular contact with the patient's husband, Agustín, and an attraction grows between them that neither seems fully able to control. As the bond deepens, the house itself seems to turn against Ana: doors that will not stay shut, sounds with no source, a presence that appears determined to push her out and keep her from Agustín. Director Laura Alvea builds the film on that tension between the mundane — shift work, grief, a marriage frozen mid-sentence — and the uncanny things Ana starts to notice once she stops trusting her own eyes. The film leans on atmosphere over jump-scare mechanics, letting the comatose wife's unseen presence hang over every room Ana enters.
About the cast
Almudena Amor leads as Ana, working opposite Javier Rey as Agustín; Amanda Goldsmith, Yaneli Hernández, Alicia Lobo, Pino Montesdeoca, Vera Curbelo, and Leo Venosa round out the cast.
Context & significance
A Spain–United States co-production released in 2024, The Sleeping Woman sits at the crossroads of domestic drama and horror, genres that share more DNA than they're usually given credit for: both depend on a house that stops feeling safe. The fantasy and thriller elements listed alongside horror suggest the film isn't playing its haunting entirely straight, leaving room for ambiguity about what Ana is actually experiencing.
Watching The Sleeping Woman on Ktime
The Sleeping Woman streams on K-Time with a free account login — no separate purchase required to watch. K-Time's catalogue and interface are built around a Farsi-first experience for the Iranian diaspora, so browsing, search, and title pages read naturally in Persian even when a film like this one, without Persian dub or subtitle tracks yet, plays in its original language.