Stephen King's Sleepwalkers (1992)
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Charles and his mother have just moved to yet another small town, looking for food and trying to survive as they are last of their kind. However Charles may have fallen in love with the girl he wants to serve as dinner and as such will have to fight off the myriad of cats which have adorned their front yard.
Overall: If the above makes little sense, the movie is even worse. Charles and his mother are sleepwalkers: Nordic vampires who have feline origins and survive by sucking the life out of their victims. That sounds like an interesting storyline, right? It’s given to us as a storyboard to start the film and that’s the furthest the film goes to explain anything. There’s no real discussion as to: 1) why the mom/son moved to the town That’s a giant list of plot holes, eh? I’ve watched cheesier films with more implausible stories than this and had less holes. I gotta admit the soundtrack is pretty good…hell, it’s one of the best all-time horror film soundtracks but what’s with the ads in this film? The film has some nice effects involving “dimming” but we all know that no one has successfully taught a cat how to attack on command so every scene in every movie ever made with a cat on the attack is fake and obviously fake. It’s more than clear these aren’t real cats. The film starts off decently with good effects and some promise but then the dialogue is so cheesy you’d think you were watching “Arnold S.” himself. Ugh! Comparison: Cats meets Dracula |
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