Rob Price
Gutbrain Records
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2025 October 29 • Wednesday

Dario Argento's Non ho sonno (Sleepless, 2001) is a typically mediocre later work from the Italian director. One thing that makes it a little more interesting is that, after reuniting with composer Ennio Morricone for his previous two films, Argento reunited with Goblin, forever beloved for their music for the director's masterwork, Suspiria (among others).

There's not much else to say about it. It didn't hold my attention and the stupidity of the story was only surpassed by the laziness of the denouement.

Max Von Sydow is in it for some reason. He wanted a free trip to Turin, maybe?

One thing that caught my eye, however, is that in an early scene, the contents of a spilled pocketbook include a copy of Stephen King's Hearts in Atlantis.

I wasn't sure what that was about but when I mentioned it to a learned friend of mine, he told me that Hearts in Atlantis connects to another Stephen King book called Insomnia and that both connect to his Dark Tower series.

And perhaps that's all there is to it. The movie is called Sleepless and having a book called Insomnia might be a little too much, so Hearts in Atlantis makes it a subtler, less direct Easter egg.