With the help of an evil priest the spirit of an executed serial killer known as The Sandman comes to life to continue his killing spree, a young man called Griffin being his ultimate target. Very much typical of straight to video fodder, don't get your hopes up for this one. As a slasher movie there is a distinct lack of slashing, most of the rather weak kills involve sand, and I found Sandman himself to be quite lame. Interesting concept, just not done (or acted) very well. There is an obligatory female in the shower scene but zero nudity. The acting is passable. Ken Foree (of Dawn of the Dead fame) has a welcome small role. The film does have plenty of CGI effects, to be fair they are better than some of the awful ones to be seen in much newer movies. At 95 minutes I felt that this was a bit of a stretch, it gets a bit slow at times. The soundtrack features a haunting lullaby, "Sleep, Baby Sleep", for me this was the only really memorable thing, it was still going around in my head long after the closing credits. In the UK this is certified 18, I really don't know why, it is pretty tame, i'm sure that if a distributor bothered to resubmit it to the BBFC that it would be reclassified 15.
Review of Sleepstalker
