6.2
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Somnium (2025)
Somnium (2025)
Overview
Somnium is a 2025 sci-fi horror thriller directed by Racheal Cain in her feature debut. Small-town aspiring actress Gemma (Chloë Levine) moves to Los Angeles after a breakup and takes a night shift at Somnium, an experimental sleep clinic where clients' dreams are manipulated. Co-starring Will Peltz as Noah and Peter Vack as Hunter.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Moderate
Family Values: Mixed
Viewer Rating
6.2
Overview
Somnium is a 2025 sci-fi horror thriller directed by Racheal Cain in her feature debut. Small-town aspiring actress Gemma (Chloë Levine) moves to Los Angeles after a breakup and takes a night shift at Somnium, an experimental sleep clinic where clients' dreams are manipulated. Co-starring Will Peltz as Noah and Peter Vack as Hunter.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
The film's central conflict critiques the predatory underbelly of Hollywood, emphasizing systemic exploitation and power dynamics that prey on aspiring artists from marginalized backgrounds. This focus on societal vulnerabilities and the illusion of the American Dream drives a left-leaning perspective.
Visible diversity appears in the cast through Latino and Black actors in lead and supporting roles alongside white performers. The storyline addresses personal and professional struggles in a speculative setting without foregrounding critiques of traditional identities or embedding explicit DEI messaging.
Secondary
The film depicts family life minimally through the protagonist's backstory of leaving a small-town social circle and a past romantic relationship, without central exploration of family structures, roles, or values. This peripheral treatment results in a neutral stance on family norms.
The film contains no identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes, focusing instead on heterosexual dynamics and personal ambitions in a horror-sci-fi context.
The film features no transgender characters or themes. Its story revolves around a cisgender protagonist navigating Hollywood ambitions and a sci-fi clinic's secrets, without addressing trans identity.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Somnium presents an original narrative centered on newly created characters in a sci-fi horror setting, with no adaptations, prior installments, or historical figures that could involve gender swaps.
Somnium presents original characters without established racial baselines from prior source material, historical figures, or adaptations, so no instances of race swaps occur.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
4.9
5.5
Critic Ratings
8.1
N/A
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