Rainey Dawn Definitely not one of the better Stephen King adaptations ... it's rather boring for the most part to me.

BA_Harrison The first of several Stephen King adaptations to be directed by Mick Garris, Sleepwalkers is dated somewhat by its (then cutting-edge) CG morphing effects of the kind seen in Michael Jackson's music video for Black and White, and later in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series. Creaky CGI trickery aside, the film is actually a whole lot of silly fun, with a daft story about a shapeshifting mother and son, Mary and Charles Brady (Alice Krige and Brian Krause), the sleepwalkers of the title, who must feed on the lifeforce of female virgins to survive.Moving to a new town, Charles quickly sets his sights on schoolgirl Tanya (the gorgeous Mädchen Amick), but his nefarious plans are thwarted by the local cat population, who gather forces, their scratches deadly to the sleepwalkers.Things get off to a wonderfully sordid start with a spot of incest between Charles and his mother, and the bonkers fun continues with hilarious attack by Charles on Tanya at a local graveyard make-out spot, some very silly gore (a pervy teacher loses his hand, a cop is stabbed in the ear with a pencil, Charles has his face seriously messed up, Ron Perlman gets his fingers chewed off, a guy is stabbed in the back with a corn cob, and a sheriff is impaled on a picket fence), several pointless cameos from horror luminaries (Stephen King, Joe Dante, John Landis, Tobe Hooper and Clive Barker), and a completely nutzoid finalé that sees the cats launch an all-out attack on Mary Brady, who has assumed her true reptilian/feline form.To summarise: Sleepwalkers is by no means a classic King adaptation, but it's never a boring one.6.5 out of 10, rounded up to 7 for IMDb.

GL84 Arriving in small-town Indiana, a woman gets involved with a strange man and his domineering woman who each have a sinister reason for an extreme phobia towards cats as they try to blend in only to have word of their secret get out again while trying to live their lives.This one was quite the overall enjoyable effort. One of the better elements in the film is the rather demented and utterly depraved mother-and-son relationship at the heart of the film. While this isn't the first time this kind of relationship was featured, this one is explicit in detailing the incestuous nature of what's going on with the two of them openly flirting and being tender with each other in far more blatant experience than expected. As well, there's also the deep make-out sessions they share as well as the sweaty sex scene between them that really manages to further this storyline which really carries the first half here. By going on the rest of the film with this already set-up, the other story lines here come across far more impactfully with their being placed alongside the great action featured in here, from the really fun car chase through the rural roads that comes with the great shock transformation and the novel manner of concluding, the fantastic ambush in the cemetery where he reveals his true nature to her before the chase around the woods and the great confrontation that occurs by the front gate which is what sets up the great finale. The house abduction comes with some great action of her breaking through everyone to take her away before the spectacular finale where the violence is turned towards humans and the action and intensity picks up, as the cats begin attacking more purposefully at the house by breaking in leading to some wholly enjoyable action to occur here as the monstrous secret gives this one plenty to like alongside the bloody kills. The other big plus here is the creature makeup which is sporadic but effective at displaying their powers and gives this enough positive elements to hold out the few flaws. The film's biggest problem is the lack of explanations for anything, from the origin of the creatures to why cats can kill them to why the teacher went after him to begin with as there's little explained at all within here in regards to anything going on. Beyond the fascination with the Native American mythology, that's all that's given about their history as sleepwalkers so everything here is really mysterious. Likewise, some of the violence towards cats could be problematic here as this tended to have full- on views of cats having their heads twisted off or bitten and shaken like rag dolls which isn't something that would be very appealing to many. These here are the film's biggest problems and hold it back the most.Rated R: Continuous scenes of dead and mangled cats, on-screen animal deaths, Graphic Violence, Language and themes of incestuousness.

DigitalRevenantX7 Story Synopsis: Mother & son Mary & Charles Brady arrive in a small town, intending to stay there. But what the townsfolk don't know is that the pair are actually 'sleepwalkers' – human / feline hybrid polymorphs who subsist on the lifeforce of female virgins. As Charles courts Tanya Robertson, intending to feed her to his mother, the police begin to suspect their intentions. The town's cats – whose scratches are the only way to kill the creatures – mount an assault on the pair.Film Analysis: Today's horror fans might know Mick Garris as the producer of the Masters of Horror TV series – a series of short films made by legendary genre directors. But Garris is also a director who had obtained a bad reputation among Stephen King's followers thanks to his consistent botching of King's novels by making subpar adaptations. The problem is that King, who seems to be a friend of Garris, doesn't seem to notice the harm that Garris is doing to his works. Sleepwalkers, one of King's original film scripts, was among the first of Garris' botch-jobs.Sleepwalkers, at least in script form, is King's attempt at reinventing the vampire film. At first glance it seems an interesting & well-thought-out story. But Garris, who seems incapable of making a decent film, ruins the story to the degree that it becomes quite unwatchable.I have always hated Garris' films, due to his ineptness. Garris' primary fault is the use of his trademark clumsy humour that he injects into his films. Not to mention that he mishandles the script badly, with his characters acting like total idiots at times. King has been known to have the occasional scripting flaw – his only directorial outing, the killer machines thriller Maximum Overdrive is a good example – but it seems that even his skills can't withstand Garris that well. When you have the monster off a police deputy by ramming a corncob into his ear, you know the film's in trouble.Having said that, Brian Krause & Alice Krige make a good team of shapeshifting monsters (even if their characters' incestuous relationship is a bit off-putting). This, along with King's original ideas & the glorious image of several film directors making cameos during the graveyard crime scene analysis makes me give the film a slightly higher rating than I would have given it otherwise.