Sleepstalker

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Summary: Sleepstalker...
Review: An obvious re-creation of SHOCKER (which was WIZARD OF OZ compared to this movie) where a family killer is put to death but comes back to life in the form of sand and goes after someone he knows for revenge. Incredibly poor quality low budget flick is unconvincing, boring, and unentertaining. Some low budget fans have forecomingly given this far more credit than it deserves. They can keep it.

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Summary: Sleepstalker
Review: I remember watching this when it first came it out. It scared the hell out of me. Even the lullaby scared the hell out of me. Basically because it was composed in miner keys. But I thought that it was an outstanding horror film. It's not quite original but it's good enough to scare the hell out of you.

The film is about a young boy named Griffen, who sees his parents killed by serial killer who calls himself the Sandman. Seventeen years later, Griffen has grown up to be a talented journalist. He feels pure relief when he finds out that the killer who murdered his parents is being executed. But what Griffen doesn't know is the Sandman performed this black magic ritual that will resurrect him into a horrific creature made of sand that can change his shape at will. The execution is performed and the sand-like killer/creature is resurrected and he sets out to end Griffen's life.

Like I said, this is not quite original but it is an excellent film and it will make you have every light on in your house.

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Summary: This movie will chill you to the bone!
Review: I watched this movie alone one night...Iwas scared STIFF...It can get a little slow at times...But its very good! A MUST rent for horror fans!

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Summary: MR. SANDMAN SING ME A SONG
Review: SLEEPSTALKER surprised me. It's an effective, chilling, if flawed, horror movie. Give Michael Harris credit for a chilling portrayal of the Sandman, both before and after his sandy transition. Kathryn Morris (who now has a hit series, WITHOUT A TRACE) has one of her early roles as Megan, the heroine. Jay Underwood gets a little histrionic, but at least he puts everything into his role as Griffin, the young man who saw his parents murdered by the Sandman seventeen years earlier. The direction is good and the cinematography very atmospheric. Teresa Straley's haunting rendition of SLEEP BABY SLEEP sent chills up my spine for its sweet, yet ominous, overtones.
Effectively haunting, not gory, but spooky all the same.

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Summary: A Fun Film
Review: This is another one of those movies I like to rent once a year or so. I find horror films to be mindless fun and this is a good one. I was impressed with the quality of the DVD, although it is not in widescreen. I like the acting and the character development. I liked Griffin. The Sandman could have easily become another icon like Freddy or Jason if they had continued with sequels. Of course with any horror movie, you can poke holes in the plot. There was little gore and no sex scenes and this made the movie lack what most other horror movies provide. The acting was good, the photography and lighting was good, and the score was good.

This is a fun addition to my collection.

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Summary: a top dog INSULT!!!! to horror movies and horror fans!!!!
Review: this movie by far is one of the worst horror flicks ive ever seen!!!BAD BAD BAD acting!/CRAPPY CRAPPY CRAPPY directing!(nothing artful about it!!!)/STUPID STUPID STUPID special effects(and i mean FAKE!!!stupid)/NOT ORIGINAL!!!/in a movie this crappy you need alot of blood & gore to give a horror fan some type of satisfaction,but GUESS WHAT!!!!there is none!!!!that i think is what URKED!!!me the most.i mean the NERVE and or the lack of NERVE it takes for a DIRECTOR who has no good creative/original/creepy(leave it to the viewer to imagine what evil could be behind the door)scenes in his or her movie,to not even give us any blood & gore"THAT SHOULD BE A CRIME!!!!" the bottom line is there are GREAT low budget horror films out there(example"the original TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE") and there are some GREAT big budget horror films out there(example"ALIEN")and somewhere in between there are GREAT horror movies with flaws(example"NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET")there are also some great horror movies out there that are only great because of the large amount of BLOOD & GORE in them(example"DEAD ALIVE")but then there's movies like this one that im reviewing right now that just plain out STINKS!!!!it doesnt matter how it was made LOW BUDGET/BIG BUDGET/IN BETWEEN/ITS JUST CRAP!!!!!!im not joking its like a BAD 80s HBO after school special thats trying as hard as it can to scare you BUT IT JUST DOESN'T!!!ITS JUST TOOOO STUPID!!!!!!!!!HORROR FANS DON'T WAIST YOUR TIME!!!!! i just can't say it enough this movie is so stupid that it kicks & screams for some BLOOD & GORE to save it and they don't even give you any of that!!!!100,000,000,000 THUMBS DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!