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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Violence, Strong Sexual Content, Questionable for Children, Not For Children, Profanity Movie Release: 1992 DVD Release: 01/16/2001 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV,Pan and Scan Audio Tracks: English, French, Spanish Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 29 mins Studio: Columbia TriStar Total Copies: 55 Genres: Horror, Creature Film, Sex Horror

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 vampires and werewolves whose faces turn animalistic whenever they are frightened or angry and who require the lifeforce of a virgin to survive. A single-parent sleepwalker family, consisting of Mary Brady (Alice Krige) and her son Charles (Brian Krause), have taken up residence in a small Indiana town. Charles has expressed a romantic interest in the attractive Tanya Robertson (Madchen Amick), a girl in his high school literature class. Mary wants Charles to lure Tanya home so that she can suck out her life force, but it appears that Charles has fallen in love with her --that is, until their first date, at a picnic at the cemetery. There Charles changes from a shy romantic suitor into a brutal and violent force, slapping Tanya around and attempting to rape her. But Tanya wards off his advances by plunging a corkscrew into his torso. Charles staggers back home to mother, where she nurses him back to health. Then Charles and his mother seek vengeance upon the Robertson family. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

Brian Krause - Charles Brady
Mädchen Amick - Tanya Robertson
Alice Krige - Mary Brady
Mark Hamill - Lt. Jennings (uncredited)
Jim Haynie - Ira
Ron Perlman - Captain Soames
Cindy Pickett - Mrs. Robertson

Stephen King's frightfest Sleepwalkers features some furry felines out for blood. Columbia has done a very nice job on this 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer. All aspects of this disc are nice, including sharp colors, deep blacks, and no edge enhancement. While the transfer is not perfect (some grain can be detected during darker scenes), overall Columbia has done a good job on this title. Audio is presented in Dolby Digital 2.0 and includes a fair amount of directional effects. Dialogue, music, and screeching effects are all clean and clear, with no distortion present. Also included on this disc is a French 2.0 track, as well as subtitles in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Thai, Korean, and Chinese. Someone must have been sleepwalking while putting the extra features together for this edition of Sleepwalkers as the only notable extras include some talent biographies and theatrical trailers for the movies Screamers, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Johnny Mnemonic, The Tingler, and Tom Savini's 1990 remake of George A. Romero's classic Night of the Living Dead. While the transfer and audio portions of =Sleepwalkers are nice, the extra features leave much to be desired. ~ Patrick Naugle, All Movie Guide