The first movie about the fairy tale character of the Sandman came out in 1933, the most recent in 2017. Obviously a character of some status, this little known horror movie also is sorta about the character. Sorta.
Sleepstalker reminds me of those 3-4 middle Hellraiser movies that were barely about Pinhead and instead some stupid other story with Pinhead shoved in there in the end with 4 lines of dialogue. It's also about the level of quality of those movies.
We begin with Griffin's family being murdered and the killer bing put on death row. We get a priest who comes to the man on death row and gives him the ability to come back as living sand, which he obviously uses and comes back to murder some more. Along the way some cops get involved or whatever and some mild weird "scares" happen.
This is one that took me a long time to get through. It moves at a glacial pace and is an hour 45 minutes which is probably about 45 minutes too long for what it is trying to do and how thin the storyline is. Character have bad dialogue, stand around, plan things, discuss things, have zero chemistry or charisma. It's a fucking dull, dull movie.
Then we eventually get to the priest who unveils what we already know, and cablam, final confrontation. I dunno. This movie is not good. I'll give it like half a star. The effects are good, the few times they happen. It might deserve higher. But ya know.
