Stephen King's Sleepwalkers (Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

他们喂给你的恐惧,作为你的晚餐。这是片子宣传语。斯蒂芬.金这个恐怖大王可谓是银幕上的拉登,到处编剧着一个个令人发指的恶梦。 《舐血夜魔》改编自美国畅销惊险小说家,有“恐怖小说王”之称的史提芬京的原作。史提芬京以写恐怖小说而名利双收,他所写的30多本小说不但在英语国家畅销,且被翻释成30多种文字而行销于世界各国。按《富比世》杂志估计,史提芬京光在1996年到1997年之间,其收入就达到8400万美元。一个作家能有这么高的收人,羡煞许多靠“爬格子”维生的人。 有关“梦游鬼”的记载最早出现于1884年首版的《百科全书之寰宇搜秘》中。它的起源可追溯到传说中的吸血鬼。“梦游鬼”是一种半人半猫科的可变形游牧动物,它以人类处女之精气神为食,猫之抓痕可置之于死地。 本片拍摄于1992年,由哥伦比亚影片公司出品,导演是米可.格瑞斯。影片情节紧张刺激,特效非常逼真,具有较强的娱乐性。 Sleepwalkers (also known as Stephen King's Sleepwalkers) is a 1992 American horror film based on an original screenplay by Stephen King and directed by Mick Garris. Plot Charles Brady and his mother Mary are Sleepwalkers—nomadic, shapeshifting energy vampires who feed off the lifeforce of virgin women. Though they normally maintain a human form, they can transform (partially or fully) into human-sized bipedal werecats (presumably their natural form) at will. They are considerably more resilient than humans and have powers of both telekinesis and illusion. Their one weakness is cats, who are not only able to see through their illusions but whose claws are capable of inflicting severe to fatal wounds upon them. It is revealed that they also maintain an incestuous relationship. Charles and Mary have taken up residence in a small Indiana town, having recently fled Bodega Bay, California (where they used the aliases Martha and Carl Brodie) after draining and killing a young girl there. Charles attends the local high school, and there he meets Tanya Robertson in his creative writing class. Tanya does not suspect the real reason Charles is interested in her; to take her life force for both himself and his mother, who is starving. At first, it seems that Charles has genuinely fallen in love with Tanya (to the dismay of his jealous mother). On their first date, however, at a picnic at the nearby cemetery, Charles attempts to drain the life force from Tanya while kissing her. Tanya tries frantically to ward off Charles by bashing his head with her camera, scratching his face, and ultimately plunging a corkscrew into his left eye; though nothing she does seems to cause Charles more than temporary discomfort. As this happens, Deputy Sheriff Andy Simpson (who had earlier tried to pull Charles over for speeding and seemingly trying to run down a young school girl while passing a stopped school bus) drives by the cemetery and notices Charles’ (now undisguised) car. When Tanya flees to him for help, Charles attacks Simpson and kills him. When Charles then turns to resume feeding off of Tanya, the deputy’s cat, Clovis, rises to the occasion and nearly kills Charles by violently scratching him in the face and chest. Mortally wounded by Clovis, Charles staggers back home to his mother who is able to make both of them "dim", i.e. turn themselves invisible, and thus keep Charles from being arrested when the police storm their house. Ominously, a small number of cats begin to gather outside their house. Knowing that the only way for her dying son to survive is to feed, Mary attacks the Robertson household, kills the entire sheriff's department and severely wounds Tanya’s parents in the process. She kidnaps Tanya and takes her back to her house, where Charles by this time is all but dead. Mary revives him, and Charles makes a final attempt to drain Tanya’s life force. However, Tanya plunges her fingers into his eyes, and kills him. Tanya manages to escape with the help of the sheriff who is later impaled by Mary on the picket fence surrounding the house. The now large number of cats that have been gathering around their house throughout the movie, led by Clovis, all jump on Mary and claw her in a violent attack until she bursts into flames and finally dies mourning that Tanya "killed her only son". The movie ends with Mary lying ablaze on her driveway and Tanya hugging Clovis, as her savior.