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Sleepwalkers

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by Rob Gonsalves

"Remember this one? No, of course you don't."

'Sleepwalkers' was billed as Stephen King's first original screenplay (that is, not based on any published books or stories). It wasn't — he'd written a script for Sam Peckinpah that never got made — but it was the first to see production. In any case, it plays as if King took it out of the trunk, blew the dust off, and cashed his check.

Alice Krige is a shape-shifting "sleepwalker" who has an incestuous relationship with her son (Brian Krause). Together, Mom and son lure nubile virgins (including Madchen Amick, fresh from Twin Peaks) and suck out their life force. The only thing that can stop them is a cat, and there are plenty of those here, led by a heroic feline named Clovis.

Completely by-the-numbers stuff, and of no particular interest except for the computer-generated morphing effects (impressive at the time) and the amusing cameos by King, Tobe Hooper, Clive Barker, Joe Dante, John Landis, Mark Hamill, Glenn Shadix, and Ron Perlman.

Notable today mainly for being director Mick Garris' first of many whacks at King material, in a career that would seem non-existent if not for the Tall Man from Maine.

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10/21/10 PAUL SHORTT THIN AND INEFFECTIVE 2 stars

2/16/09 action movie fan good story great special effects good suspense and great gore, scene with cop great-worthy 4 stars

11/10/07 FilmFocus One of the few Stephen King horror stories that won't scare you. 2/5. 2 stars

3/29/07 carlene I remeber almost every movie that I've seen but this one slips my mind! 1 stars

3/27/07 Irene Diaz I liked the first half of the movie, the second half was terrible 3 stars

3/20/07 David Pollastrini I saw it but have no memory of it so it must have sucked 2 stars

8/09/06 Dragon The Artist Everything in it was campy &stupid; to top it off Brian Krauss was in it;another cheeseball 1 stars

10/05/05 Jesse Taylor The worst movie ever made. 1 stars

8/23/05 ES Incest and bestiality! Wow I can see why this one is worth the look= not 1 stars

11/02/03 American Slasher Goddess On the cheesy side, but entertaining. 3 stars

10/10/03 Erik Van Sant Why does Mick Garris suck ass so bad? This isn't even funny-bad. 1 stars

9/28/03 Lord Durvok II Novel idea drowned by crappy effects and pointless gore and bad acting. 2 stars

10/20/02 Charles Tatum Nothing memorable, like most of King's later work 3 stars

9/02/02 y2mckay Another piece of shit movie from Stephen King. Why does kid fuck mom instead of Madchen? 1 stars

5/21/02 drkdahlia this movie sucked so badly i wouldn't recommend it to my worst enemy 1 stars

9/14/01 Butterbean Mother and Son swappin spit.. hell yah!!! NOT! A very corny movie indeed 2 stars

4/25/01 Spetters One of King´s worst!! Distasteful, unfunny, stupid and definitely NOT scary!!! 1 stars

7/04/00 Joey Carlson I enjoyed the movie a lot, even though some of the effects were a little cheezy... 5 stars

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Directed by Mick Garris Written by Stephen King Cast Brian Krause Madchen Amick Alice Krige Jim Haynie Cindy Pickett Ron Perlman

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