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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9780767859486
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767859480
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: January 16, 2001
Running Time: 89 minutes
Sales Rank: 22617
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: April 10, 1992
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Product Description:
A mother-and-son team of strange supernatural creatures come to town to seek out a virgin to feed on. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 06/01/2004 Starring: Alice Krige Cindy Pickett Run time: 89 minutes Rating: R Director: Mick Garris
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Stephen King's Sleepwalkers is about a half-human, half-cat race of shape shifters called, for no apparent reason, sleepwalkers. Hunky Charles Brady (Brian Krause) and his incestuous mother (Alice Krige) are sleepwalkers, and they've come to the small town of Travis, Indiana, where they've somehow acquired a nice house and false identities. They need virgin souls to survive and have fixated on local beauty Tanya (Madchen Amick from Twin Peaks). That's about it for the story--from then on it's a series of chase scenes full of badly done gore. King must have been sleepwalking himself when he wrote this screenplay--the dialogue is terrible, the characters are cardboard, and the plotting is clumsy. Combine that with mediocre acting, thoughtless direction, slapdash editing, and cheesy special effects, and you have Sleepwalkers. Amick comes off reasonably well and there are cameos by King, Clive Barker, and horror directors John Landis (An American Werewolf in London), Joe Dante (Gremlins), and Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre). But really, if you're interested in were-cats, see the original The Cat People, starring Simone Simon; it's both sexier and scarier. --Bret Fetzer
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Rating:  - A Fun B-Flick
Even Stephen King has to have a few B flicks in his catalog and this cetainly fits the bill. It is a fun and quick way to pass 90 minutes if you want mindless monsters and cats galore.
Rating: - It''s interesting however...
This movie is one of the Stephen King's horror films and this movie was interesting. The whole story was cool but some scene was disgusting. I like the cat. However this movie was a little shortage and it's not exciting.
Rating:  - This is Barely a Horror Movie, but it is VERY Entertaining
Sleepwalkers has all the elements of a horror movie, and yet it isn't one. The first scene is very effective, and sets the tone for a good horror movie. We see Mark Hamill (unrecognizable from his Luke Skywalker days) as a cop checking out some odd goings-on at a house. But I wonder - did the girl scream or was she already dead? Or was it a dead body that screamed? The music and imagery during the opening credits is great. There's a definition of a sleepwalker from an old occult encyclopedia. The ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and art look really cool. The sketch of a sleepwalker breastfeeding an infant looks scary. The thought that the infant might actually be a human being makes the sketch even more unsettling. Anyway, that first scene and the opening credits create an atmosphere of dread that we would expect to last throughout the rest of the movie. But Stephen King (who wrote the script) and director Mick Garris wanted to make a movie that was campy AND scary at the same time. Unfortunately, they failed to deliver with regard to the scares, but they do provide us with some good laughs. Sleepwalkers is a good movie, it's just not as good as it was meant to be. It's almost impossible for a movie to be both campy and scary, but I regard House of 1000 Corpses as a rare exception.
I think of Sleepwalkers as more of a comedy than a horror movie, just because there are so few moments that anyone would find scary (even though this movie terrified me when I was a kid). There's a lot of moments ... Read More
Rating:  - Unless you are a fan of Stephen King's work, you can ignore this one
I love watching movie adaptations of Stephen King's work. When I came across "Sleepwalkers", I thought it would be interesting. However, I was a little skeptic because I hadn't ever heard of it, but then realized that King directly made this into a movie without making it a book first. After watching the entire movie, I can clearly say that unless you are a die-hard King fan, you can avoid this movie at all costs.
The story is about the Brady family consisting of Charles (acted by Brian Krause, who nowadays is famous for his role as 'Leo' in the hit TV show "Charmed") and his mother Mary (played by Alice Krige), who move to Travis, Indiana. However, we know from the beginning that they are not who they say they are; in fact, they aren't even human beings. They are the Sleepwalkers - shape shifting creatures who feast on female virgins to keep themselves alive. Their only flaw is that they are vulnerable to cats. Anyway, Charles has his eyes on his next victim, who happens to be a high school cheerleader called Tanya (played by Mädchen Amick) and enrolls in the same class as her to seduce her. Will the Sleepwalkers be stopped in time or is it the end for Tanya?
I really wanted to enjoy this movie, but there are SO many holes in the storyline, which makes me confused to enjoy it, such as:
1) In the first scene of the movie, we see a bunch of dead cats hanging around the house, which proves that the Sleepwalkers can fight it and kill it. If that's the case, why were ... Read More
Rating: - fun
First mick garris king collaboration.
Dont expect something too deep, save that for the later Garris films. This one is superficial fun. Gory, nicley paced- some truly wonderful camera movements
(absolute favourite- when Charles and Tanya roll across the ground and the camera rolls with them; at first its a parody of the romantic cliche, but the camera keeps on moving, and suddenly its dangerous- then the shot ends, and the entire scene is different; really well done).
Its directed with flair and energy. Some choice cameos. Dont expect The Shining, the tone is very different. have fun.
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