Sleepwalker (1992)

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Movie
German title Sleepwalker
Original title Sleepwalkers
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1992
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Mick Garris
script Stephen King
production Michael Grais
Mark Victor
Nabeel Zahid
music Nicholas Pike
camera Rodney Charters
cut O. Nicholas Brown
occupation

Sleepwalker (also called Stephen King's Sleepwalker ) is an American horror film from 1992 based on an unpublished novel by Stephen King , who also wrote the screenplay for it. For the director Mick Garris it was the first collaboration with the author, which was to be followed by several joint productions. The film premiered in the United States on April 10, 1992. Stephen King also has a cameo in this film version : He plays a cemetery attendant.

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Charles Brady and his mother Mary are sleepwalkers - a kind of metamorphic vampire who sucks the life force from their virgin victims. Although normally human, they can consciously change their appearance to bipedal werecats of human size. They also appear to be more resilient than humans and have telekinetic powers. Mary and Charles also have an incestuous relationship.

Charles and Mary settled in Indiana after leaving Bodega Bay , California , where they used the pseudonyms Martha and Carl Brodie after they suckled a girl there. Charles attends the local high school and meets Tanya Robertson in a creative writing class. Tanya does not question the real reason Charles desires her - to give her life force to his mother, who is already half-starved. At first it seems that Charles has fallen in love with Tanya - much to the displeasure of his jealous mother. However, on their first date, a picnic in the nearby cemetery, Charles tries to suck out her life force by kissing her. Tanya tries everything to dissuade Charles from killing her, e.g. For example, hitting his head with her camera, scratching his face, and even drilling a corkscrew into his left eye.

When this happens, a deputy sheriff who has previously tried to convict Charles for speeding and overtaking a stopped school bus drives past the cemetery and recognizes Charles' car. When Tanya runs to him for help, Charles attacks him and kills him. He then wants to continue his vitality sapping session with Tanya, but the sheriff's cat, Clovis, seizes the opportunity and almost kills Charles by scratching his face and chest. (It is never explained what dislike cats have for sleepwalkers, but unlike humans, they can see what they really are. Therefore, sleepwalkers are portrayed as figures who are afraid of common house cats.) Difficult by Clovis Wounded and crippled, Charles stumbles home to Mary. Mary can make both of them invisible, which saves Charles from being arrested by the police who arrive shortly afterwards.

Now Mary wants to take revenge on the Robertson, kills three policemen and injures Tanya's parents seriously. She kidnaps Tanya and takes her to her home, where Charles died at the time. However, Mary resurrects him and Charles tries again to steal the girl's life force. However, Tanya stabs his eyes with her fingers, killing him for good. Tanya manages to escape with the help of the sheriff, who is later staked from the pickets that surround Mary's house. Some of the cats that gathered around the house during these events are now attacking Mary under the direction of Clovis, clinging to her until she goes up in flames, killing her. The film ends with a shot of Mary, who is burning in her driveway.

Reviews

"More disgusting than a creepy staged horror film that clumsily plagiarized its predecessors."

- Lexicon of international film

"The 'Cat People' variation was Stephen King's first original screenplay and is way behind the class of his novels."

- TV movie

Awards

At the Fantafestival 1992 Alice Krige was awarded for Best Actress and Mick Garris for Best Film and Best Director. Stephen King received an award for best screenplay.

background

  • Other well-known personalities besides Stephen King who appear are: Mark Hamill , Ron Perlman and Clive Barker as well as the film directors Tobe Hooper , Joe Dante and John Landis .
  • The film was shot entirely in Los Angeles , California .
  • The film was unindexed in May 2018. A re-examination by the FSK in November 2019 resulted in an age rating of 16 years and over for the unabridged version.
  • Ron Perlman played a police officer again 14 years later in the film Desperation . As with Schlafwandler , the book and the script were written by Stephen King.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Parts of this article in the version of March 19, 2008 were based on a translation from the English language Wikipedia. A list of the authors is available here .
  2. ↑ Sleepwalker. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 21, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ TV feature film
  4. ↑ imdb.com filming locations - sleepwalkers
  5. ↑ https://www.schnittberichte.com/news.php?ID=13357
  6. ↑ https://www.schnittberichte.com/ticker.php?ID=6925
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Movies

Carrie - Des Satan's Youngest Daughter (1976) • Burning Must Salem (1979) • Shining (1980) • Cujo (1983) • Dead Zone (1983) • Christine (1983) • Children of Wrath (1984) • The Fire Devil (1984) • Devil's Gift (1984) • Werewolf from Tarker Mills (1985) • Cat's Eye (1985) • Stand by Me - The Secret of a Summer (1986) • Rhea M - It Started Without Warning (1986) • Running Man (1987) • Stuffed Animal Cemetery (1989) • Tales from the Shadow World (1990) • Night Shift (1990) • Misery (1990) • Stephen King's It (1990) • Sometimes They Come Back (1991) • Stuffed Animal Cemetery II ( 1992) • Children of Wrath 2 - Deadly Harvest (1992) • The Lawnmower Man (1992) • Sleepwalker (1992) • Tommyknockers (1993) • Stephen Kings Stark (1993) • In a Small Town (1993) • The Condemned (1994) • Stephen King's The Stand (1994) • Children of Wrath 3 - The Chicago Massacre (1995) • The Langoliers (1995) • Dolores (1995) • The Mangler (199 5) • Thinner (1996) • Children of Wrath IV - Murderous Cult (1996) • Sometimes They Come Again II (1996) • Stephen King's Quicksilver Highway (1997) • Trucks - Out of Control (1997) • Quicksilver Highway (1997) • The Shining (1997) • Stephen King's The Night Flier (1997) • The Model Student (1998) • Children of Wrath 5 - Field of Terror (1998) • Children of Wrath 6 - Isaac's Return (1999) • The Storm of the Century (1999) • The Green Mile (1999) • The Mangler 2 (2001) • Hearts in Atlantis (2001) • Children of the Corn: Revelation (2001) • Fire Devil - The Return (2002) • Carrie (2002) • Stephen King's House of Doom (2002) • Dreamcatcher (2003) • Salem's Lot - Burning Must Salem (2004) • The Secret Window (2004) • Riding the Bullet (2004) • Desperation (2006) • Room 1408 (2007) • The Nebel (2007) • Dolan's Cadillac (2009) • Children of the Corn (2009) • Everything's Eventual (2009) • Children of Anger: Genesis - The Beginning (2011) • Willa (2013) • Carrie (2013) • Stephen King's a Good Marriage (2014) • Mercy - The Devil Knows No Mercy (2014) • Big Driver (2014) • Willa (short film) (2015) • Pulse (2016) • The Dark Tower (2017) • 1922 (2017 ) • The Game (2017) • It (2017) • The Doctor's Case (2018) • Mute (2018) • Cemetery of Stuffed Animals (2019) • It Chapter 2 (2019) • In the Tall Grass (2019) • Doctor Sleeps Awakening ( 2019)

TV Shows

Kingdom Hospital (2004) • Salem's Lot (2004) • Stephen King's Nightmares (2006) • Haven (2010–2015) • Stephen King's Bag of Bones (2011) • Under the Dome (2013–2015) • 11.22. 63 - The Attack (2016) • The Fog (2017) • Mr. Mercedes (2017) • Castle Rock (2018)