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Sleepstalker
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Sleepstalker (released in the Philippines as A Demon in the House) is a 1995 horror film directed by Turi Meyer, written by Al Septien and Meyer, and starring Michael Harris, Jay Underwood, Kathryn Morris, and Michael D. Roberts.
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4.5Seventeen years after slaughtering all but one member of a family, a vicious serial killer known only as "The Sandman" awaits execution. But first, his jailers allow a minister to visit the killer to give him last rites, unaware that the minister is a voodoo priest and an ally of the condemned prisoner. The priest places a hex on the Sandman so that when he is executed, his soul migrates into a new body made of sand. To sever his ties with his former life and achieve absolute power, the sandman must find and kill a man named Griffin, the sole survivor of the last family murdered by the killer
Cast
- Michael Harris as The Sandman
- Jay Underwood as Griffin Davis
- Kathryn Morris as Megan
- Michael D. Roberts as The Preacher
- Marc McClure as Dad
- Caryn Richman as Mom
Themes
- child abuse
- serial killer
- execution
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Ratings
IMDb
4.8/10
1,007 votes
- Year
- 1995
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Genres
- Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
- Rated
- R
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- publication date
- 1995-01-01
- title
- Sleepstalker
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Sleepstalker (released in the Philippines as A Demon in the House) is a 1995 horror film directed by Turi Meyer, written by Al Septien and Meyer, and starring Michael Harris, Jay Underwood, Kathryn Morris, and Michael D. Roberts.
==Plot== Seventeen years after slaughtering all but one member of a family, "The Sandman" (Michael Harris) is pending execution. Before his execution, the jailers allow a minister (Michael D. Roberts) to visit him. The minister is a voodoo priest and an ally of the prisoner, which the jailers did not realize. A hex is placed onto The Sandman, so that when his execution is over, his soul can travel to a new body made of sand, but all his blood relatives would need to die. The Sandman then plots to kill a young man named Griffin (Jay Underwood), who is his biological little brother and, additionally, a survivor of the abuse of their birth father. Griffin survived the attempted slaughter, but his adoptive parents did not. The Sandman is then reborn, upon execution, to have a chance to try once again.