Aegri Somnia (film)

Aegri Somnia is a 2008 Canadian existential horror film, written and directed by James Rewucki.

[1] Shot in a mixture of black and white and colour, Aegri Somnia tells the story of Edgar (Tyhr Trubiak), a simple man who is haunted by the death of his wife Muriel (Mel Marginet) and plagued by shadows and terrifying visions.

[2] Edgar is a man in an extreme existential crisis.

He is thrown into a hopeless abyss of frequent nightmares, isolation and increasing paranoia following the suicide of his wife.

Edgar moves from one fresh hell into another in this tale of a man facing the darkest side of his shadow self.