Our Stephen King screen lookbacks arrive at Sleepwalkers, a movie based on an unpublished short story…
The only things that threaten them are cats, who show up wherever they go.
Mary is one mother you dont wont like when shes hangry.
They find the body of a young girl, drained of life.
Garris plays with a sense of tragedy and isolation at first.
Charles worries that they might be the last.
Their incestuous relationship feels both icky and tragic; they literally only have each other.
Cue everything going a bit bonkers.
And then were into the home stretch.
Charles is weakening after an attack from Clovis the cat and hero of this film.
Marys resourceful, using a corn-on-the-cob to stab a deputy in the back.
The sheriff gets impaled on a fence.
She even twists Ron Perlmans arm to breaking point and then hits him in the face with it.
How can you not love that?
Its hard not to wonder whatSleepwalkersmight have been like had it kept up with the subdued and macabre atmosphere.
Theres an interesting tragedy at play in the characters of the Bradys.
But, Id be lying if I said I didnt love the way it does go.
Sometimes, you just need carnage.
Scariest moment:The jump scare in the opening scene got me hook, line, and sinker.
Its a relatively cheap moment, but hey, it worked.
A King thing:Mothers.
Mothers come in all shapes and sizes across Kings world.
Others are monsters, be it in human form like Margaret White or a gigantic Lovecraftian monstrosity in Revival.
Join me next time, Constant Reader, forPet Sematary Two.
