Disco
2025 · 10m · USA
Directed by Molly Longwell
Genres: coming-of-age, drama, thriller
Fourteen-year-old Jojo sleepwalks to a barn and wakes up haunted enough to investigate. As she pieces together what her friend and an unknown boy are really up to, dreamlike sequences leak ugly secrets into the daylight.
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A teenage sleepwalker as the detective — finally a coming-of-age film that lets the unconscious do the reporting. Most YA thrillers explain too much; this one trusts the dream.
Sleepwalking as the investigative POV — Longwell uses dream-logic as detection method, which is a real structural idea. Picnic at Hanging Rock filtered through Eighth Grade, executed with care.
Sleepwalking as the investigative POV — the protagonist solves the mystery by going further into her own unconscious. That's a real structural idea for a psychological thriller and Longwell's careful with subject matter that could go lurid.