Sleepwalkers

Stephen King's Sleepwalkers (1992)

  • 17% of critics liked it
    (12 reviews)

  • 39% of users liked it
    (26,230 ratings)

Stephen King wrote his first original screenplay for this horror gore fest that features cameos by directors Clive Barker, Joe Dante, Tobe Hooper, John Landis, and King himself (playing a cemetery attendant). The story concerns a twilight people named "sleepwalkers" --creatures similar to… More

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R,
Directed By
Written By
Stephen King
Genres
Horror
In Theaters
Apr 10, 1992 Wide
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Staci Layne Wilson, Horror.com

    I enjoyed revisiting this lesser-known, more unusual than your usual horror story. I haven't seen it in many years, and for the most part it still holds up.

  • Staci Layne Wilson, StaciWilson.com

    A campy cat-treat.

  • Nell Minow, Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies

    A nicely scary little thriller and one of the better adaptations of King's work.

  • Andreas Samuelson, Slasherpool

    Fairly entertaining

  • Rob Gonsalves, eFilmCritic.com

    Plays as if King took it out of the trunk, blew the dust off, and cashed his check.

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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

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