![]() ![]() In fact, one of my few problems with the movie is that there is no way the parents, or at least the mother, wouldn’t have gone off the deep end if these things really happened to her. I mean, sure, the grandmother was an obvious goner, but the 9 year old kid? And the father on top of it? Now I know they killed granny off in II, but imagine if at the end of either film, the only ones left alive were Diane and Carol Anne, with Carol Anne about to commit matricide as the credits began to roll. Here, we essentially have the same family unit as the Freelings from Poltergeist(in fact, the same kid plays the son), plus a grandmother (so it’s Poltergeist I and II combined!). But even that movie kept it to adults and made the family genealogy a bit unclear. Like I said in my Home, Sweet Home review, you don’t often see families at the center of slasher type scenarios because it’s just too much of a bummer. You sure as hell wouldn’t see a brand new film about a little girl offing her family airing on NBC opposite Grey’s Anatomy or some reality show about dancing. Nowadays, a TV movie is either something that’s trying really hard to compete with theatrical films (it never works), or it’s on Lifetime and it’s about a woman coping with some domestic issue or other. Rest assured, if there were any way of seeing the movie (which was a TV movie and thus aired for free in the first place) without spending a sizable chunk of my paycheck on a used VHS tape, I would certainly take that route instead.Īnyway, much like Dark Night of the Scarecrow, I spent most of the movie wondering how awesome it would have been to have been born maybe 5 or 6 years earlier and thus seen this movies first run on TV as an adolescent, as well as what the hell happened to TV movies that were actually scary and fairly downbeat. And if you cannot make that distinction, then I feel sorry for you. It is not the same thing as downloading a video camera-shot version of something that’s currently playing in theaters. It, and any other film under the same circumstances, I would gladly provide a link or embed a copy of a full version so that it wasn’t forever “lost” to a modern audience. ![]() You can watch it all on Youtube, however (part 1 is below in lieu of a trailer, which I couldn't find).Īnd before I get into the review proper, since I have a “fan” who constantly tries to accuse me of being a hypocrite when it comes to bootlegs - the film is not available through any reasonable other means. Don’t Go To Sleep has seemingly never even gotten a budget DVD release, and the long out of print VHS version runs close to 100 dollars on Amazon and the like. I downloaded a copy from a public domain site about 2 years ago when I was seeking a better transfer of Cathy’s Curse for our seemingly now defunct Horror People, Dear Reader series, but the site is no longer around (I suspect that many titles weren’t as public domain as they claimed). Of course, you’d have to be able to WATCH the goddamn thing to see it, which is a tricky endeavor these days. ![]() Well, no, that scene didn’t, but the very end did, and I would provide a screengrab for you, but why spoil the surprise? Rest assured, anyone who doesn’t at least get a bit of a chill from the final shot of the film’s killer is obviously soulless*. Now that I’m 30 years old, and thus slightly more mature, I figured I’d give the film another look and see if it still freaked me out. I couldn’t remember much else about the movie, but I swear to Jebus, I cannot look at a pizza slicer to this day without getting a little spooked. I can’t remember where I saw it, but one scene in Don’t Go To Sleep has remained embedded in my psyche since I was 7 or 8 years old: a little girl, walking up the stairs, menacingly rolling a pizza slicer across the walls and the banister. ![]()
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