Sleepwalkers (1992)

Director

• Mick Garris

Starring

• Brian Krause
• Madchen Amick
• Alice Krige
• Jim Haynie
• Cindy Pickett

Last On

22:50-00:40 Wed 1st Sep 2021 105m
Horror Channel

Synopsis

Hailed as the first Stephen King story expressly written for the screen, this minor horror entry revolves around the gory small-town exploits of shape-shifting, incestuous, psychic vampires with feline, reptilian and human traits. Director Mick Garris tries to inject life into the pathetic script by gyrating the camera, adding some neat computer-generated transformations and flashily accenting what little action there is, but this underdeveloped material is so poor he's constantly fighting a losing battle. Apart from playing spot-the-cameo - King, Clive Barker, John Landis, Joe Dante, Tobe Hooper and other horror luminaries pointlessly appear - there's little to engage the attention in an idiotic potboiler off the creaky King conveyor belt. From the daft prologue set in Bodega Bay where Hitchcock filmed The Birds to the soggy moggy climax, this is absurdly unscary and confusingly dull.