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· Year: 2002
· Also known as: Sleepstalkers, Stephen King's "Sleepwalkers"
· Director: Mick Garris
· Writer: Stephen King
· Cast: Brian Krause, Mädchen Amick
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· Directed by Mick Garris, who also helmed the Stephen King movies The Stand, The Shining, and Quicksilver Highway.
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A high school girl dates a nice boy with a weird mom, both of whom are shapeshifting cat-creatures. Well, this is a Stephen King story.
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Sleepwalkers isn't a great Stephen King movie, but from a strange point of view, it's the ultimate Stephen King movie. It has plenty of things that make some King flicks good--fitting direction and editing (in this case, aggressive and tight, respectively), snappy dialogue, fast cars, and just a general affection for popular horror. Sleepwalkers also has plenty of the components of bad Stephen King movies, like terrible overacting, so-so makeup, and cardboard characters. (I think King crafts some of the most wonderful, realistic characters in fiction today--in his books.) Definitely worth a watch, though, for its aforementioned savvier elements, and for Mädchen Amick's bright-eyed performance.
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