Sleepwalkers
Short description
Charles Brady and his mother, Mary, belong to a dwindling race of beings that must drain the life force of young women to survive. Able to shift their appearance and hide in plain sight, they drift from place to place to avoid discovery, moving on whenever suspicion grows. Their search brings them to a small town in Indiana, where Charles, passing as an ordinary high school student, sets his sights on a classmate named Tanya Robertson. The pair become fixated on her as their next source of nourishment, but Tanya proves more resourceful than they expect, and the family's one natural weakness puts them in danger.
The film was directed by Mick Garris, arriving after Psycho IV: The Beginning in his filmography, and written by Stephen King. Brian Krause plays Charles, with Mädchen Amick as Tanya, Alice Krige as Mary, and supporting turns from Jim Haynie, Cindy Pickett and Ron Perlman. It is a fantasy horror thriller running 89 minutes.
Made for about 15 million dollars, it took roughly 31 million worldwide, a solid return for a genre picture of its size. On IMDb and on TMDB, audiences rate it around 6.1 out of 10 from several hundred votes, while a critics' score of 4.4 out of 10 from 17 reviews is noticeably lower, suggesting general viewers responded more warmly than reviewers did.
What's left behind the scenes
- It is believed to be the first film based on an original screenplay by Stephen King, rather than adapting one of his works in any way. In fact, this isn't entirely true: Stephen King used the plot of one of his unpublished stories to create the screenplay.
- The film was shot entirely in Los Angeles, California.
- Stephen King appeared in the film as the cemetery caretaker.
- The lunatic asylum is the same house used for filming the popular family television series "The Waltons" (1972-81).
- In the cemetery scene, the name of the film's assistant director – Jenny Hicks – can be read on a tombstone behind Charles Brady's right shoulder.
- During the chase scene with the patrol car pursuing Charles Brady, it can be noticed that the odometer in Charles's car spins backward – a clear reference to Stephen King's novel "Christine" (and its film adaptation by John Carpenter).
- Later, Charles' car changes from blue to bright red – this can also be seen as an allusion to "Christine".
- While shooting Mary Brady in Tanya Robertson's house, Deputy Horace shatters the same glass or crystal vase with yellow flowers twice with a single shot.
- In the film's prologue, as Lieutenant Jennings and another police officer walk past a police car while talking, a microphone can be seen reflected in its rear window.
- At the end of the film, Tanya cuts her hand on a shard of glass in the window. However, the glass disappears in the next shot.
- After receiving a blast of buckshot in the back, Charles Brady gets into his car and drives home. When he gets out of the car, the bloody hole from the impact on his back vanishes without a trace.
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