...Corn cob. Seriously....

Snapping a hand off cleanly at the wrist....

Shooting once at a cop car and it blows up...

A man still alive after having a pencil shoved in his ear canal...

Three fingers bitten off at once, on a nice even level...

Eye gouging an obvious rubber dummy....

Impaling a man on a picket fence, when IRL those thin slats would break, and wouldn't do more than give you a bruise...

...And one scene after another of hilarious Cat Fu. Rubber kitties held by the actors while they pretend a cat is attacking them.

These are the absurdities the film asks us to believe. It's truly a Plan Nine level of bad film making.

You watch just to laugh at how bad it gets. No one in it can act. King, at least for this film, can't write worth a damn.

Almost as hilarious are the reviews making excuses for the film. Then again, they do that for most of King's films, no matter how bad they get.

Right up there with Manos Hand of Fate and Troll II as a film you'll get loaded with friends and laugh at.

this Stephen King adaptation was entertaining but not great,by any means.it's worthwhile to pass time.it''s probably as weird as any of the King adaptation i have,and even weirder than others.this movie sort of felt like a fairy tale to me.although not a kid's fable,obviously.i did like the cast,many of whom have gone on to other things,since then.Brian Krause also appeared in the TV show Charmed,Madchen Amick (who could be Kim Delaney's twin sister)has been in several smaller budget pictures.Alice Krige was seen most notably as the Borg Queen in Star Trek:First Contact,while Ron Perlman was previously seen in The TV series beauty and the Beast.his most notable role(In my opinion)was in Hellboy as the title character.like in most King movies,king himself appears in a cameo.at least three other modern horror masters(Jon Landis,Joe Dante,and Clive Barker also have cameos.anyway if you wanna pass 90 minutes or so,i'd say this movie is worth it.for me,Sleepwalkers is a 6/10

Don't get me wrong I do like Stephen King a lot, his writing is growing on me all the time, and I do like a vast majority of the adaptations based off his work. Sleepwalkers, alongside TommyKnockers and Thinner is one of the worst King adaptations for me.

Although most of the effects are corny, some of the transformation sequences are surprisingly neat and some of the cameos from King himself, Clive Barker and John Landis are fun to spot, even if they pointlessly come and go.

On the other hand, that's it. The film starts off shaky with a daft prologue and right up to the equally daft ending it never recovers. The pace is disappointingly dull, the dialogue is underdeveloped and reeks of cheese, the plot is thin and idiotic and there is no genuine atmosphere and jolts as a result. Apart from the fun to spot cameos, the acting unable to do anything with sloppily written characters is dire. Director Mark Garriss does try his best, but he is hampered by the mess that are the script, pace and story, so all the flashy gyrating camera work seems like a wasted effort in the end.

In conclusion, a mess and one of the worst films based on the work of Stephen King. 2/10 Bethany Cox