History Film / Sleepwalkers

The titular Sleepwalkers move into the town of Travis, Indiana, and try to find a virgin to suck the life out of. Charles starts trying to seduce Tanya (Madchen Amick), who is [[InformedAbility apparently a virgin.]] Their relationship goes a little south, when he tries to suck her soul on the first date, and a police officer shows up with an ''attack cat'' named Clovis. Charles is injured, and his mother begins a RoaringRampageOfRevenge. There are a few random car chases and murders to round out the movie.

* CastFromStomach: basically where all of Charles and Mary's magical abilities come from - they feed off the life energy of virgins, which not only nourishes them, but is used by them for their illusions and presumably their superhuman strength.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: how Charles and Mary see their murderous rampage. They're just feeding on the souls of virgin girls (usually tweens or children) to stay alive.

* BaitAndSwitch: When Mary is introduced to Tanya, she is holding a pair of scissors dangerously close to Tanya...which she uses to cut a rose stem to place in Tanya's hair.

* CompetenceZone: You know you're in trouble when a movie's competence zone is restricted to cats...
** To be fair to the human cast, the Sleepwalkers seem to shrug off any injury not inflicted by a cat. Even a lost eye seems like an inconvenience.

* ForeShadowing: The abandoned house at the beginning of the film.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: The sheriff gets body slammed on a picket fence.

* ParentalIncest: [[spoiler:Between the two Sleepwalkers, Mary and Charles. They are the last two of their kind though, apparently.]]
** Justified in-universe: [[spoiler: early in the movie, Charles says 'But you need me to feed you, Mom.' Only male Sleepwalkers can absorb the souls that sustain them, which they then feed to the Female Sleepwalkers via sex. Since Charles and Mary are the only Sleepwalkers remaining...]]

* TakingYouWithMe: the underlying purpose behind Mary's RoaringRampageOfRevenge. [[spoiler: Mary cannot absorb a virgin's soul energy herself, she needs a Male Sleepwalker to feed it to her. With Charles dead, she's facing a slow death from starvation. Or a quick one in a blaze of 'glory' while taking out everyone who played a part in killing Charles and herself.]]

* VirginSacrifice: Sleepwalkers eat the souls of virgins to survive.

* WouldHurtAChild: at one point, we see the corpse of Charles and Mary's previous victim, who's in elementary school. Given that they need female virgins, it makes sense that the majority of their victims would be under high school age.

* BittersweetEnding / DownerEnding: The Sleepwalkers are dead, and Tanya and Clovis have survived the day. However, [[spoiler:Tanya's parents are presumed dead and multiple cops have been killed during Mary's rampage]].

* AngstWhatAngst: Tanya ends the film telling the heroic cat that "it's just you and me now, Clovis" with a happy smile. Certainly not the reaction one might expect from someone whose parents were slaughtered in front of her not even an hour ago.

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Clovis, and his cat army!]]

* CompetenceZone: You know you're in trouble when a movie's competence zone is restricted to cats ...

* KryptoniteFactor: The Sleepwalkers. Get stabbed in the eye with a corkscrew? Barely worth noting. Get scratched enough times by ordinary house cats? [[spoiler: ''Fucking explode!'']]
* MadeOfExplodium: [[spoiler:Perhaps the best reason to see this film is for the scene where Mary bursts into flame from a cat attack.]]

* [[AdultsAreUseless Humans Are Useless]]: While Tanya manages a lot of [[EyeScream eye-gouging]] on the monsters, the only named character who actually does anything useful is ''Clovis the cat''.
** Well, the Sheriff that came to Tanya's rescue did try, using one of the bear traps on Mary. Not his fault he was up against a supernatural monster.

* MadeOfIron: The Sleepwalkers can shrug off shotgun blasts and [[EyeScream eye removal]] without any apparent ill effects. An house cat's claws and fangs, on the other hand, [[WeaksauceWeakness are basically kryptonite to them.]]

* TragicRose: The Bradys always leave a rose placed in the hair of their virginal victims.

* TheCavalry: Just when things look their worst, [[spoiler:we get a shot of ''Clovis'' leading an army of cats to the Brady house [[MundaneMadeAwesome in slow motion]]!]]

* KryptoniteFactor: Get shot in the eye with a handgun? Barely worth noting. Get scratched enough times by ordinary house cats? [[spoiler: ''Fucking explode!'']]

* MadeOfIron: The Sleepwalkers can shrug off shotgun blasts and [[EyeScream eye removal]] without any apparent ill effects. An ordinary cat scratch, on the other hand, [[WeaksauceWeakness is basically kryptonite to them.]]

* KryptoniteFactor: Get shot in the eye with a handgun? Barely worth noting. Get scratched enough times by ordinary house cats? ''Fucking explode!''

* MadeOfIron: The Sleepwalkers can shrug off shotgun blasts and [[EyeScream eye removal]] without any apparent ill effects. An ordinary cat scratch, on the other hand, [[WeaksauceWeaknesss is basically kryptonite to them.]]

* MadeOfIron: The Sleepwalkers can shrug off shotgun blasts and [[EyeScream eye removal]] without any apparent ill effects. An ordinary cat scratch, on the other hand, [[weaksauceweaknesss is basically kryptonite to them.]]

* MadeOfIron: The Sleepwalkers can shrug off shotgun blasts and [[EyeScream eye removal]] without any apparent ill effects. An ordinary cat scratch, on the other hand, [[weaksauseweaknesss]] is basically kryptonite to them.]]

* KryponiteFactor: Get shot in the eye with a handgun? Barely worth noting. Get scratched enough times by ordinary housecats? ''Fucking explode.''

* {{Tagline}}: See the caption under the poster above. Notable for being ''completely false;'' Skinwalkers eat the souls of virgins, not fear.

* GlamourFailure: You can see the Sleepwalkers' true forms in mirrors. This, and their method of feeding, can make them a bit OurVampiresAreDifferent.

* MadeOfIron: The Sleepwalkers can shrug off shotgun blasts and [[EyeScream eye removal]] without any apparent ill effects.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** The script has references to Sherrif Ira being a recovering alcoholic. This gives some context to the "Cold draft" dialogue between Ira and Soames.
** In the script, when the police first investigate the Brady house, animal control captures the cats surrounding the house. This explains why cats are not around when Mary leaves to kidnap Tanya.