Young beauty Madchen Amick becomes the latest target of new to school Brian Krause when it turns out he and his mother (played by Alice Krige, who does alright) turn out to be ancient "sleepwalkers", vampiric like incestual creatures who (in what is barely mentioned why) need to feed on Amick while trying to avoid all the town's feline population since common housecats can kill them.

If the silly sounding plot doesn't sway you to the "skip it" side then perhaps the ridiculous first transformation of Krause (in which the first of many really poor one-liners start to pop-up), the fact cars blow-up when shot once with a common gun and the many moments of plain dumbness (I mean, someone is stabbed with a cob of corn!) will.

This plays like a lame B-movie that just so happens to be written by Stephen King, one of the most acclaimed horror novelists of our century. Far-fetched (the "sleepwalkers" can go invisible and morph cars, etc.) and loaded with a bunch of "inside" cameos (such as Clive Barker, John Landis, Tobe Hooper and Joe Dante - and the expected hokey King cameo) this is one of the poorest movies based on King's work, only this time the writer himself wrote the script.

Directed By: Mick Garris.
Written By: Stephen King.

Starring: Brian Krause, Madchen Amick, Alice Krige, Jim Haynie.