Yellow Veil Pictures has announced the official release of Racheal Cain’s debut feature “Somnium.” Yellow Veil will bring the acclaimed science fiction horror film to select theaters starting August 28, 2025, followed by its release on major streaming platforms on September 9. The film premiered at the 2024 Chattanooga Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award, and went on to receive the Silver Audience Award Prize at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival. Lead actress Chloë Levine took home the Best Actress Award at FilmQuest.
The acclaimed indie film marks the feature directorial debut of writer/director Racheal Cain. The film follows Gemma, a small-town girl who, after a painful breakup, 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.
The cast is led by Chloë Levine (“The Sacrifice Game”). Levine is joined by Peter Vack (“Mozart in the Jungle”), Will Peltz (“Unfriended”), Johnathon Schaech (“Suitable Flesh”), and Grace Van Dien (“Stranger Things”).
The road to the release of “Somnium” began in 2011, when Cain first started writing the script. However, the project gained traction in 2018 with the successful launch of a crowdfunding campaign on social media. Production occurred in two phases, with all of the film’s flashback scenes shot in 2018 and its present-day scenes in 2021 and 2022, four years later.
“Somnium” will have its theatrical premiere on Thursday, August 28, at the Laemmle Royal in Los Angeles, before officially opening theatrically on Friday, August 29, for a week-long run at the Laemmle Glendale. The Los Angeles run will be followed by a run in New York City starting September 6 at the Roxy Cinema. A list of upcoming screenings can be found on the Yellow Veil Pictures website.
“I couldn’t have dreamt Somnium would end up in theaters just a few miles from where I started writing it all those years ago,” said Cain. “This film has clawed its way into existence over the last decade, and I can only hope viewers find it was worth the wait.”
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.
