The Stephen King adaptation DOCTOR SLEEP is still playing in some theatres (sadly, it has already left the area I'm living in) and we're coming up on Thanksgiving, a holiday that's all about family and consuming things… so this is the perfect time for Lance Vlcek to cover the 1992 Stephen King movie SLEEPWALKERS with the latest video in his The F*cking Black Sheep series.
SLEEPWALKERS isn't an adaptation of a King novel, he wrote this one specifically for the screen. Directed by Mick Garris, the film stars Brian Krause, Madchen Amick, and Alice Krige, and tells a
terrifying tale of modern-day vampires who prey on virtuous young women. Madchen Amick is the sexually curious virgin who falls for the new boy in school (Krause), only to learn too late that he's a life-sucking Sleepwalker. Mutating at will from golden boy to savage monster, Krause stalks Amick to feed his seductive mother. As the tension mounts (and the casualties pile up), the town's tabbies gather for a final, chilling showdown with the monsters in their midst – and we all know it's not nice to hurt people's felines…
As that bad joke at the end of the synopsis indicates, SLEEPWALKERS is a movie that gets goofy as hell, and its blend of silliness and weirdness has never sat very well with me. It's okay, I'll watch it from time to time, but I'm not really a fan.
Reactions like mine are what make this movie a Black Sheep, so to hear the positive things Lance has to say in its defense, watch this video:
