Lucid

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Lucid

May 2026

1h 48m

Horror

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A 1990s art student uses a lucid dreaming elixir to break through her creative blocks and finds herself trapped in a surreal dreamscape where her inner demons become real life monsters.

Simon Foster

Screen-Space (Substack)

Jun 26

3/5

Milligan and co-dir Ramsey Fendall are all sorts of ‘indie’ - independent, indulgent, indecipherable - in this ‘90s-set horror-oddity, drip-feeding bizarre imagery and monstrous manifestations in their unpacking of an artist’s angst.

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Jake Tropila

In Review Online

Jun 6

Lucid has a lot of audiovisual style going for it... but Milligan and Fendall’s storytelling instincts leave a lot to be desired, resulting in a project.. that is both underbaked and also a good 20 minutes too long.

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Jennie Kermode

Eye for Film

Sep 19

3.5/5

Lucid is surprisingly coherent once the pieces start to come together, and it’s among the more successful experiments in this sort of portraiture.

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Dan Tabor

Cinapse

Aug 7

Simply stated: Lucid is a phantasmagorical 90’s banger, whose period setting isn’t simply a nostalgic crutch, but instead an actual device to tell an intriguing story of its time.

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Joe Lipsett

Bloody Disgusting

Aug 4

3.5/5

The punk film...feels bold, experimental and refreshing. It’s a big swing kind of film that features plenty of hallucinatory imagery, albeit occasionally at the expense of its storytelling.

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Kat Hughes

THN

Jul 23

4/5

Lucid is a beautiful film to behold in spite of its darker content. The hazy visuals and hypnotic score drowns out the heartache to create a film whose vibes, although strong, are not its only strength.

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Stephen C

@bob25009 May 29

Success in 1 hour and 48 minutes. Original and loving it. All ages admitted worldwide.

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Synopsis

A 1990s art student uses a lucid dreaming elixir to break through her creative blocks and finds herself trapped in a surreal dreamscape where her inner demons become real life monsters.

Director: Ramsey Fendall, Deanna Milligan
Producer: Ramsey Fendall, Emanuel Foucault, Deanna Milligan
Screenwriter: Claire E. Robertson, Deanna Milligan, Ramsey Fendall
Distributor: Dark Star Pictures
Production Co: Sublunar Films
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 29, 2026, Limited
Runtime: 1h 48m