Scream Yourself to Sleep with SOMNIUM in Limited Release Aug 28 & VOD Sept 9
Los Angeles, CA (August 13, 2025). Yellow Veil Pictures has announced the official release of Racheal Cain‘s debut feature Somnium. Yellow Veil brings acclaimed horror science fiction indie to select theaters. Starting August 28, followed by a bow on major streaming platforms September 9. The film premiered at the 2024 Chattanooga Film Festival. There it took home the Audience Award. It went on to take the Silver Audience Award Prize at Brooklyn Horror Film Festival. Lead actress Chloë Levine took home the Best Actress Award at FilmQuest.
Logline: At experimental sleep clinic, Somnium, dreams are made real. Side effects may include: hallucinations, confusion, paranoia, sleep paralysis, detachment from reality, lost sense of self, permanent nightmares.
The acclaimed indie film, which has earned rave reviews since Chattanooga, marks the feature directorial debut of writer/director Racheal Cain. The road to release began in 2011. Then 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. All of the film’s flashbacks scenes shot in 2018. While its present day scenes in 2021 and 2022, four years later.
The Official Trailer for SOMNIUM (2025) Directed by Racheal Cain
The cast is led by Chloë Levine (The Sacrifice Game, The OA). Levine is joined in the hellish dreamscape by Peter Vack (Mozart in the Jungle). Will Peltz (Unfriended), Johnathon Schaech (Suitable Flesh, Blue Ridge: The Series) and Grace Van Dien (Stranger Things, Redux Redux).
Somnium will officially open theatrically Friday, August 29 in Los Angeles for a week run. It is followed by a run in New York City starting September 6.
Beginning September 9, audiences across North America will be able to rent or own Somnium on Digital HD. Including Apple TV, Prime Video, and Fandango at Home
Cain said. “I couldn’t have dreamt Somnium would end up in theaters a few miles from where I started writing it”. This film has clawed its way into existence over the last decade. And, I can only hope viewers find it was worth the wait.
About Somnium
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.
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