Sleepwalkers (1992)

Featured Audience Ratings

• Jeff "

  
  Sleepwalkers is a borderline average Stephen King horror film about shape shifting vampires. The film is fairly cheesy with average acting and doesn't try to do anything effective, new or thoroughly original. The film feels lazy and there is a sense that it could have been done… More
  Sleepwalkers is a borderline average Stephen King horror film about shape shifting vampires. The film is fairly cheesy with average acting and doesn't try to do anything effective, new or thoroughly original. The film feels lazy and there is a sense that it could have been done much better. The idea explored in Sleepwalkers is interesting, and it could have been something truly terrific, but King doesn't try to make it interesting enough to blow you away. The ideas feel like they're scrapping the bottom of the barrel and there isn't really anything going on here thats really exciting. The film is cheesy fun, but it never goes beyond anything spectacular, good or truly original. Sleepwalkers has moderate chills, but considering that this was written by Stephen King, you'd expect something better, right? Well, the result with Sleepwalkers is a film that is entertaining and fun, but lacks the fire to make it truly an exciting and memorable horror film. Sleepwalkers is worth watching, but keep your hopes at a low to medium level so you don't disappointed. The premise of the film is interesting, but Stephen King could have done a few rewrites of the script before turning it in. The film feels like it was a filmed using a first draft of script. Sleepwalkers is a moderately fun film, but nothing to really write home about.

• AJ V

  
  A strange, unsettling vampiric type family horror story from Stephen King, it's really different, and I really liked it. I'd like to see it again before I write anymore about it, though, I saw it a long time ago.

• Lee ?

  
  Good bloody fun from start to finish. It's a fairly short film that doesn't out-stay its welcome or take itself too seriously. The keen-eyed horror fans will enjoy spotting the numerous cameos. I was also pleasantly surprised to hear my favourite Enya song as the films… More
  Good bloody fun from start to finish. It's a fairly short film that doesn't out-stay its welcome or take itself too seriously. The keen-eyed horror fans will enjoy spotting the numerous cameos. I was also pleasantly surprised to hear my favourite Enya song as the films theme. Very entertaining stuff!

• Anthony L

  
  A fairly cheesy horror film from Stephen King, he actually wrote the script and made a cringe-worthy cameo appearance too. It's not to be taken seriously, certainly don't go out of your way to see it but there are a lot worse out there! Death by Cat was quite cool though!

• Nani V

  
  Finally saw this again after many years. A mother and son move from town to town seeking virgins and trying to hide their true identities. The son is a teen who does the job of finidng a young woman he can bring home to mother for dinner. Interesting, weird, and old school.

• Wahida K

  
  This Movie is very weird. Nudity pure what didnt actually bother me but the plot was so really poor and the acting weak. Maybe someday someone has the idea to make better remake with better actors!

• Coxxie M

  
  a gay cop tries to have sex with a teenager and when he rips his hand off the cop just runs through the woods (not in pain, but ashamed) apologizing for tring to bone him while missing a hand. so yea just let that soak in a little. then see if you still want to watch it.

• Cassandra M

  
  This is a true so-bad-it's-good movie. It's right up there with Death Race 2000 and Nine Songs (only joking, I think) as one of the great after-pub films. To its credit it doesn't try to be meaningful or intelligent, but concentrates on the more important business of… More
  This is a true so-bad-it's-good movie. It's right up there with Death Race 2000 and Nine Songs (only joking, I think) as one of the great after-pub films. To its credit it doesn't try to be meaningful or intelligent, but concentrates on the more important business of killing off the characters (mainly the rural cops) in imaginative ways. There's a longer-than-usual cameo by Stephen King, and Clive Barker and Tobe Hooper also make appearances. The real heroes, though, are the cats. They are consistently more resourceful than the human characters and, unlike the cops, have mastered the important skill of entering and leaving buildings. The climax is a riot of silliness. Great fun!

• Jason S

  
  A modern day monster flick that isn't too bad. It's not all that great either.

• Tim S

  
  Not the best King film, but it's actually the only Garris' directed one that I enjoy.

• Dr Blood  

  
  Nice atmosphere, gorgeous females in the form of Mädchen "Twin Peaks" Amick and Alice "First Contact" Krige, but a very thin script.

• xGary X

  
  Yet another half-arsed Stephen King adaptation, this time scripted by King himself so he has no-one else to blame. Despite the presence of the lovely Madchen Amick, it's nonsensical, cheesy and just plain awful.

• Kylie B

  
  Enjoyable, though the effects look a little clumsy now. Why is it that villans must make cheesy one-liners?

• Dean M

  
  The scariest Stephen King film ever made! DVD is much better with uncut scenes than the cinema.

• Adam M

  
  Horror based on Stephen Kings book. Cat lovers may find themselves a bit distubed at the beginning as we see a house surrounded by hung cats. Later, we find the reason behind this is a couple of shapeshifters, a young man and middle aged woman, who move from place to place, finding… More
  Horror based on Stephen Kings book. Cat lovers may find themselves a bit distubed at the beginning as we see a house surrounded by hung cats. Later, we find the reason behind this is a couple of shapeshifters, a young man and middle aged woman, who move from place to place, finding human prey. When pretty student Madchen Amick(who previously played a fit waitress in Twin Peaks) falls for the young man, unaware of his shapeshifting ways, it seems shes in for a whole world of shit. This isn't bad considering I never have high expectations of Stephen King adaptations but this has a few unintentionally funny moments, especially towards the end, a couple of questionable moments(how can they make a car invisible?Or change its make?!) and cameo's from Tobe Hooper, Clive Barker, John Landis, Joe Dante and King himself so this is worth a look for horror fans despite not being anything special.

• Lee K

  
  stephen king adaptation that i really liked

• Barry L

  
  Good but weird film. Typical King to be honest.

• Eduardo C

  
  The film's opening (with Enya's "Boadicea" playing over the credits) promised an atmospheric horror film drenched in loneliness, akin to Paul Shrader's remake of "The Cat People". The film, alas, opts to delve in the realm of cheese. It is one big… More
  The film's opening (with Enya's "Boadicea" playing over the credits) promised an atmospheric horror film drenched in loneliness, akin to Paul Shrader's remake of "The Cat People". The film, alas, opts to delve in the realm of cheese. It is one big joke of a movie, a complete and utter mess. The atmosphere promised to us so cruelly by Enya's only good (and damn good it is) track is only matched by small sequences (Brady's poem, the cats gathering outside the house, "Boadicea" once again playing over the end credits) as the rest of the film is too preoccupies with its jokes, make-up and cameos. Mick Garris is, once again, directing at the peak of his abilities, making the whole thing look and feel like a made-for-tv production. On the subject of cameos it must be said that during Stephen King's long and illustrious carreer his teeth have not gotten any smaller, and he has not learned how to deliver a line that was not cringe inducing in its awfulness. The lone exception might be his role in Creepshow, his performance in which took on a sort of epic badness that kept it watcheable. Alice Kriege is great in her role (as always, and gorgeous, as always) but no one else is up to the task. With this script, I can't blame them. The film is watchrable because it is harmless. It is not offensive, has a good soundtrack ("Sleepwalk" by Santos and Johnny also makes an appearance) and won't kill you. Make no mistake about it, however. It is no damn good.

• Rose G

  
  i have always been a fan of stephen king's novels but this one definitely is not one of my favorites. the special effects were bad and the acting was even worse.

• Chad R

  
  not good

Read all 20 featured audience ratings