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Sleepwalkers

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When newcomers Charles (Brian Krause) and his mother, Mary (Alice Krige), settle into town, the local residents do not suspect that they're shape-shifters looking to feed on the town's virgin girls. Charles quickly befriends innocent and chaste Tanya (Madchen Amick) when he begins attending high school, hoping to take her life force in order to feed his mother. When Tanya agrees to a first date with Charles, she may learn his true intentions the hard way.
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Nell Minow Movie Mom A nicely scary little thriller and one of the better adaptations of King's work. Rated: 4/5 Aug 20, 2004 Full Review Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle Rated: 2.5/5 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Chris Ward Flickering Myth Sleepwalkers has one big thing in its favour, namely that it is so much damn fun! Nov 5, 2020 Full Review Nick Rogers Midwest Film Journal A suitably bloody romp about oedipally incestuous werecats who thrive on virginal energy and a smart, sensitive and stealthy satire of groups like the Moral Majority -who were as prolific and profitable in the 1980s as Stephen King himself. Rated: 3/5 Oct 21, 2020 Full Review David Nusair Reel Film Reviews There's ultimately not a whole lot within Stephen King's Sleepwalkers to get wholeheartedly (or even partially) excited about... Rated: 2.5/4 Aug 14, 2019 Full Review Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed Not a good movie, nor a scary one, but you're guaranteed a good time with its inherent stupidity and silliness. Nov 19, 2018 Full Review Read all reviews

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Mike P Alice Krige and Brian Krause are like a couple of carnivorous THUNDERCATS here....I mean that's what they look like; weird cat-humanoid hybrids; or rejects from the movie CATS; who run around their small Indiana town terrorizing people...And who live by sucking the air from Virgins. They're Charles and Mary Brady; the Brady Bunch, if you will; that's if the Bradys were incestious-humanoid vampires. And Madchen Amick is Tanya Robertson, the plucky local virgin that has to fight them off; Buffy the Vampire Slayer Style. And this story from Stephen King is just too weird to work overall; just weird and all over the place. King is usually just an uber-genius...But even Babe Ruth strikes out once in a while, as the saying goes ..And THIS must have been conceived during his darkest AA days; because it's just TOO crazy... And it's too bad, because I think they were actually hitting on something with the whole contagiousness of sexual predation thing; colliding with all the terrors of adolescent courtship; and maybe an edgy resurrection of the old Cat People legend... I mean...there was potential, somewhere in there... I mean, but they really should have streamlined the plot a little bit; cut out the weird distracting details, and stuck to the heart of this dark idea... And the acting here is actually excellent. Both Krause, Krige and also Amick do fantastic work; given that they've been dealt a clunker of a script. But the special effects; the creature-feature set pieces and the story itself are all just epic fails. Just BAD...There's no other way to say it... I mean, this winds up being as bad as an old Lost in Space episode... Or a really stupid Mystery Science Theater 2000 episode. I mean, we're talking HORRIBLE!!... So...Thumbs way down on this clunker... It's worse than kitty litter... Or the stuff within... 👎 Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 10/11/24 Full Review Dan R 1992's 'Sleepwalkers', based on the work of Stephen King, is a film which desperately needs a remake as this film is so cringy in the modern world. SYNOPSIS: 'A mother-and-son team of strange supernatural creatures move to a small town to seek out a young virgin to feed on.' Films of this era will never be a good representation of King's work and 'Sleepwalkers' is an excellent example of this. It follows all of the writer's tropes in such a lazy fashion it's almost laughable. Cameo appearances by horror icons Clive Barker, Tobe Hooper, and the King himself add little to this slapstick attempt at a horror movie, whilst also bordering on incestious soft porn. It's not scary now, assuming it ever was, and is more camp than anything else. A typical 90's King adaptation. 4/10 Rated 2 out of 5 stars 05/14/24 Full Review Howard H Interesting relationship between mother and son with an overly good looking cast which unfortunately blurs on the wrong side of erotica. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/09/24 Full Review Matt L I've always enjoyed this movie, even if I wish the bad guys won at the end. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 12/12/23 Full Review Audience Member I remember watching it on SyFy channel back at my first house and even after 30 years it's such a blast, I didn't hate it by any means Sad to say it barely made a profit and got shredded by critics Although it did become a sleeper hit of spring 1992 Wasn't based on an original story by Stephen King despite what people think Charles and his mother, Mary are part of a race of beings called Sleepwalkers that have existed for hundreds of years They look human but have cat-like features and being around actual cats is deadly to them But they are the last two remaining it seems so they preserve their immortality by draining the life force of virgin girls The latest town they move to is in Indiana where Charles has selected high school student Tanya as their next source of nourishment But after Charles tries to kill her Tanya ends up fighting back and Mary becomes impatient determined to drain her life force by any means necessary even fighting the local police and Tanya's parents with bloody results The mother-son relationship is very uncomfortable But I love how over the top it goes from acting to effects to unintentional laughs The main theme by Nicholas Pike and Enya is still so memorable it was even used in a Mario song Good gore scenes too This was my first introduction to Brian Krause, Alice Krieg, and Madchin Amick plus a string of horror cameo directors Joe Dante, Clive Barker, Tobe Hooper, and John Landis Yes the leads are in their 30s supposed to be high school students but they are appealing to watch throughout The ending is where things go so insane it's actually really entertaining The movie was almost lost to obscurity but it's cool the fan base has kept it alive Rated 4 out of 5 stars 04/14/23 Full Review Brad P Fun and slightly frightening way to kill 90 minutes. Garris' direction is tight, wasting precious little time, and King's screenplay, though slightly rushed in the third act, works well enough. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/01/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis When newcomers Charles (Brian Krause) and his mother, Mary (Alice Krige), settle into town, the local residents do not suspect that they're shape-shifters looking to feed on the town's virgin girls. Charles quickly befriends innocent and chaste Tanya (Madchen Amick) when he begins attending high school, hoping to take her life force in order to feed his mother. When Tanya agrees to a first date with Charles, she may learn his true intentions the hard way.
Director
Mick Garris
Producer
Mark Victor, Michael Grais, Nabeel Zahid
Screenwriter
Stephen King
Production Co
Columbia
Rating
R
Genre
Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 3, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$28.1M
Runtime
1h 30m
Sound Mix
Surround, Stereo
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