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Old 9th October 2014, 12:25 AM
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Sleepwalkers.

Stephen king knocks off cat people just a bit, in a far less subtle 90's schlocker that is still highly entertaining in spite of its numerous flaws. A mother and son pair of shape-shifters, essentially cat/human hybrid vampires move from town to town feeding off the life force of virgins. In between bouts of sweaty incest and laying down traps to fend off the local cats which are their one weakness, the son must seduce and feed off twin peaks Madchen Amick. His idea of subtle seduction however involve a clumsy attempt at rape in a local cemetery and things go wrong pretty quickly.

Sleepwalkers is the sort of film where cars blow up when you shoot at them, lots of gore FX replace any sense of subtle terror from the original inspiration and a plucky cat and his chums save the day. Yep, its pretty stupid but as I said, damned entertaining. Worth mentioning as well it beat let the right one in by a good number of years for scene of vampire getting mauled to death by cats. WE also get a small role for Ron Pearlman as well as cameos from Clive barker, John Landis, Tobe hooper, Joe Dante and Stephen king himself.
Sadly the blu-ray is region locked. Now all I need is Maximum overdrive in HD!

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