For audiences bored by what amounts to a slow-burn road trip, it's all too easy to close your eyes and look for something more exciting in your dreams.

Awake has just enough scares and strangeness, plus a sense of dread and paranoia, to make its horror creepy and enjoyable.

There is no getting around it: Mark Raso's "Awake" is bad. But at least it's so bad that it's often ludicrously laughable: Netflix may well have a cult turkey on its hands.

Awake delivers a decent tale that starts far stronger than it ends. While its unique premise initially helps present something different, it quickly comes to get in its own way.