Sleepwalkers

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This article is about the film. For the NBC science-fiction TV series, see Sleepwalkers (TV series).
Sleepwalkers
Directed by Mick Garris
Produced by Michael Graia
Mark Victor
Nabeel Zahid
Written by Stephen King
Starring Brian Krause
Alice Krige
Madchen Amick
Music by Nicholas Pike
Cinematography Rodney Charters
Editing by O. Nicholas Brown
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date(s) April 10, 1992
Running time 91 min.
Language English
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Sleepwalkers is a 1992 American horror film based on an unpublished Stephen King novel and adapted by Mick Garris. The original music score was composed by Nicholas Pike. The film was marketed with the tagline They feast on your fears... and it's dinner time.

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[edit] Plot summary

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Charles Brady and his mother Mary have taken up residence in a small Indiana town. They are sleepwalkers--nomadic, shape-shifting energy vampires who feed off the lifeforce of virgin women. Half-human and half-feline, they are vulnerable to being scratched by cats. They can turn into brutal werecats at will. Charles and Mary recently fled Bodega Bay, California (where they used the aliases Martha and Carl Brodie) after killing a girl there. They can make themselves "dim," or invisible, among other powers.

Charles attends the local high school and meets Tanya Robertson, a girl in his creative writing class. Tanya does not suspect the real reason why Charles wants her so much — to take her lifeforce for his seductive mother, who is starving. But Charles has fallen in love with Tanya — until their first date at a picnic at the cemetery. Charles begins to slap Tanya around and tries to drain her lifeforce. But Tanya wards off his romantic advances by plunging a corkscrew into his left eye.

A deputy sheriff who tried to pull Charles over for speeding and passing a stopped school bus happens to drive by the cemetery where he sees Charles' car. When Tanya runs to him for help, Charles tracks him down and kills him--but not before the deputy's cat, Clovis, nearly kills him by scratching him in the face and chest. Charles staggers back home to Mary. Mary is able to make both of them dim, and thus keep Charles from being arrested.

Mary then seeks vengeance on the Robinson family, killing Tanya's father and severely injuring her mother. She kidnaps Tanya and takes her back to her house, where Charles by this time is all but dead. Mary resurrects him, and Charles tries to drain Tanya's lifeforce. However, Tanya plunges her fingers into Charles' eyes, killing him. Tanya manages to escape to safety with the help of the sheriff. Several cats jump on Mary and claw at her, killing her. The movie ends with Mary lying ablaze on her driveway.

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[edit] Notes

  • The film won the Fantafilm Awards for Best Actress (Krige), Best Direction (Garris), Best Film (Garris) and Best Screenplay (King)
  • Because of the uniquely close relationship between Mary and Charles, there were moments of consensual incest.
  • The film was also memorable for its use of the Enya song Boadicea, which boosted her music's popularity.
  • The movie is referenced in the song Ready or Not, possibly because both songs used Boudicea by Enya.
  • The film was shot on location in Los Angeles, California.
  • One of the film's producers, Joseph Medawar, was tried for fraud in 2006 for making a fake TV show about the Department of Homeland Security and stealing money from the show's would-be investors.
  • One of the first motion pictures to use morphing in visual effects. The effects were created by Apogee.

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