{"id":12290,"date":"2017-10-15T20:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T01:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=12290"},"modified":"2017-10-15T19:01:10","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T00:01:10","slug":"sleepwalker-1984-saxon-logan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/12290","title":{"rendered":"Sleepwalker (1984, Saxon Logan)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy <strong>SHOCK<\/strong>tober!<\/p>\n<p>This is pretty advanced for a low-budget hour-long mid-1980&#8217;s British horror, beginning with a closeup of a sleeping head, crossfading to a naked tree, its branches recalling the nervous system.  &#8220;Just a bad dream&#8221; &#8211; Marion (1970&#8217;s TV actress Heather Page) is awakened by gentle husband Alex (Scottish filmmaker Bill Douglas).  They&#8217;re having guests for dinner: her old friend Angela (Joanna David of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/2054\">Secret Friends<\/a><\/em>) and husband Richard (Nickolas Grace of <em>Salome&#8217;s Last Dance<\/em>), who we&#8217;ll soon learn is an absolute ass.  The home-cooked meal is ruined by a window blown in by the storm, so they go out to a restaurant run by the Captain from <em>Fraggle Rock<\/em>, and the bulk of the movie seems to be an extremely painful dinner conversation.  Drunken sniping rules the meal, mixed with references to sleepwalking and hypnosis.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image17\/sleepwalker1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>L-R: Alex, Marion, Richard, Angela:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image17\/sleepwalker2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>What with the storm and the drinking and the late hour, Angela and Richard reluctantly agree to spend the night.  And as the dark synth music rises, a sleepwalking Marion kills everyone in the house with a knife.  Perhaps that&#8217;s what happens, anyway.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image17\/sleepwalker3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image17\/sleepwalker4.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy SHOCKtober! This is pretty advanced for a low-budget hour-long mid-1980&#8217;s British horror, beginning with a closeup of a sleeping head, crossfading to a naked tree, its branches recalling the nervous system. &#8220;Just a bad dream&#8221; &#8211; Marion (1970&#8217;s TV actress Heather Page) is awakened by gentle husband Alex (Scottish filmmaker Bill Douglas). They&#8217;re having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,2336,102,54,2335,1798],"class_list":["post-12290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-bill-douglas","tag-britain","tag-horror","tag-saxon-logan","tag-sleepwalking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12292,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12290\/revisions\/12292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}