there a legion of mick garris hater out there who feel he couldn not direct a horror film of quality if he have to . and and sleepwalker ( . screenplay write by stephen king ) be often use a an example of this . i like sleepwalker and though i fully be aware that garris just say f # ck it and let all hell break loose about fifteen or so minute into the movie . forget character or plot development and who need them anyway . it about violent mayhem and bloody carnage a a mother and son pair of sleepwalker ( . feline human shapeshifting creature who suck the lifeforce from virginal female innocent and move from town to town and live a nomadic existence and truly powerful ) set their sight on a teenager who doesn not surrender without a fight . before all be say and do and many will be slaughter a a mother shan not tolerate the possible death of her beloved son . garris waste little time set up those to be execute and a a teacher ( glenn shadix ) and suspect handsome and all american charmer charles brady ( brian krause ) to be someone entirely different from who he claim and get his hand rip off and his neck torn into . charles lure pretty virgin into his arm and draw their energy and in turn feed his hungry mama and mary ( alice krige ) . the fresh new target be tanya robertson ( mädchen amick ) and and she seem to be easy pickens and but this will not be the case and when charles be seriously injure in a struggle ( . thanks to a deputy cat and clovis ) and mary vengeance will be reap on all those who get her way . mary and come hell or high water and will retrieve tanya in the goal of refresh her die son . like many teenager and i have a crush on certain actress i watch in movie . such a amy dolenz and i be smite with mädchen amick . she simply adorable in this movie and i love how she bite her low lip display an obvious attraction towards charles and unaware of his ulterior motif . i just know that mädchen amick would be destine to be a scream queen and but this would never be the case . too bad because i would have welcome her in the genre with open arm . krige be yummy a the menacing and damn sexy and but vicious and mean bitch who wipe out an entire police force and poor tanya parent in one fail swoop and in less than ten or so minute . she stab one in the back with a corn cob . she bite the finger off of poor ron perlman and before crack his arm ( . a bone protruding ) and knock him unconscious with his own elbow . she toss tanya mom through a window after break a rise vase over her father face . a deputy be stab in his ear by charles ( cop kebab . ) and fall on the pencil for extra impact . poor tanya be drag by her hair from her home by mary and drive to the brady home and and force into an impromptu dance with the cripple monster . the sheriff be hurl onto a picket fence and we see how cat combat the sleepwalker unlike human . we see mary and charles ability to dim themselves and his car use a power of invisibility . writer stephen king even find time to include himself and horror director buddy of his in a crime scene sequence with clive barker and tobe hooper a forensics officer and joe dante and john landis a photograph expert . the film be shoot in a tongue in cheek and let it all hang out manner with music appropriately hammer this technique home . it about the ultra violence and simple a that and with some derange behavior and jet black humor compliment garris direction and king screenplay . the incestuous angle of the sleepwalker be a bit jarring and in your face . without a lick of complexity and this be closer in vein to king own demented maximimum overdrive than his more serious work .