Apparently, this is one of Christy's favorite movies. I had never even heard of it, but as I said previously, I am not a big Stephen King fan. The man sure does have a thing about cats, though.Charles Brady (Brian Krause) and his mother (Alice Krige) are sleepwalkers, a race of shapeshifting creatures that feed on the life force of virgins and can only be killed by cat scratches. Nowadays they're all but starving. So when Charles spots Tanya (Madchen Amick) in his Creative Writing class, he thinks he's hit the jackpot. Except he maybe kinda sorta likes her enough to keep from sucking her dry like a Capri-Sun. But Mommy dear reminds him that, uh, they need to eat and he should stop screwing around.
This is a fairly silly movie that falls squarely into the so-bad-it's-good territory. The acting is over-the-top, especially from Krause, the dialogue is very Stephen King (i.e. stilted and weird), and the creature effects are just bizarre. Seriously, imagine Ron Perlman (who is in this movie, by the way) from his Beauty and the Beast days but hairless. It's gross looking.
See what I mean? They're competently done but there's no real horror there. It's more like "ugh, who put Nair in the cat shampoo?"
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