Last updated on September 9th, 2025 at 03:18 pm
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
After a painful breakup, small-town Gemma moves to Los Angeles with the hopes of making it big. To get on her feet, she takes a job working the overnight shift at Somnium – a mysterious, experimental sleep clinic where dreams are made real. Meanwhile, Gemma throws herself into the cutthroat world of Hollywood auditions. But as the pressure to succeed mounts, she begins to experience strange and unsettling phenomena, and soon finds herself trapped in a nightmarish spiral as she discovers a darkness lurking within the clinic walls.
Yellow Veil Pictures distributes in the US.
Filmed in California and Georgia.
The road to release began in 2011, when writer/director Racheal Cain first began writing the script, but the project gained traction in 2018 with a successful crowdfunding campaign launched on social media. Production occurred in two phases, with all of the film’s flashbacks scenes shot in 2018 and its present day scenes in 2021 and 2022, four years later.
The feature film directorial debut of Racheal Cain.
This is an indie sci-fi horror movie.
Yellow Veil Pictures released Somnium in Select Theaters on August 28, 2025.
Lightbulb Film Distribution released Somnium on VOD/Digital in the UK and Ireland on September 8, 2025.
Yellow Veil Pictures released Somnium on VOD/Digital on September 9, 2025.
Director: Racheal Cain