Cure vs Sleep
Cure has the higher audience score (7.6/10 against 6.7/10 for Sleep). Sleep is the shorter watch at 1h 35m compared with 1h 52m. Cure is the older of the two (1997 against 2023). Both are horror, mystery, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Cure
Sleep| Cure | Sleep | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.6/10 | ★ 6.7/10 |
| Year | 1997 | 2023 |
| Length | 1h 52m | 1h 35m |
| Genres | Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Horror, Mystery, Thriller |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Jason Yu |
| Main cast | Ren Osugi, Denden, Yoriko Doguchi, Koji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara | Jung Yu-mi, Lee Sun-kyun, Yoon Kyung-ho, Lee Kyung-jin, Kim Guk-hee |
Synopsis
Cure
A detective starts spiraling out of control when a wave of gruesome murders with seemingly similar bizarre circumstances is sweeping Tokyo.
Sleep
Hyun-su and Soo-jin are newlyweds. Seemingly out of nowhere, he starts talking in his sleep. "Someone's inside." From that night on, whenever he falls asleep, he transforms into someone else with no recollection of what happened the night before. Soo-jin is overwhelmed with anxiety that he'd hurt her family while she sleeps and can barely sleep a wink because of this irrational fear. Despite sleep treatment, Hyun-su’s sleepwalking only…