"Sleep Tight" is a homage to the horror films of days gone by, but at the same time it also breaks with convention. Our aim was to capture this dichotomy visually. After a few brainstorming sessions and mood research, the setting was found: The world was to be dark and foggy, the images diffuse and rich in contrast. Our professor Michael Coldewey gave us a lot of freedom to come up with ideas, and so the first very ambitious script was soon created. That's how we came to want a creature as the main character: a werewolf. by Malte Pell, Tobias Sodeikat and Jonas Potthoff
With this basic idea, further meetings took place in which the story began to take shape: a short, menacing sequence - a werewolf breaking into a house - told full of suspense and with a twist at the end that bypasses the usual tropes of the genre. Here, for once, no one is eaten; the werewolf creature is itself an inhabitant of the house it appears to be breaking into.But above all, the werewolf becomes a ...
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