30 - Wednesday, April 22, 1992 — North Shore News

Weak King disappoints

Sleepwaikers # (Columbia)
Rated R (at the Park & Tilford,
Granville, Coquitlam, Scott 72
and Clearbrook cinemas)

Tim Bell
FILM REVIEW

IRGINS beware.

Stephen King’s sleep-
walkers are shape-shifting vam-
pires who take on human form to

feast on the souls of the unsullied.

Only you don’t ward off these
undead with crucifixes and garlic.
Assuming you're chaste, the only

- protection from having your
lifeforce drained is — a cat. That's
‘right. A’common.tabby scares the

~-bejabbers out of the monsters

(which is kind of ironic since their

true identities look like hairless, -

- pumped up pumas)..

Teenaged sleepwalker Chartes
Brady (Brian Krause) is devoted to
his mother, Mary (Alice Krige),
whom he loves very much — and
frequentiy (well, they are monsters
after all, so who are we to judge).

But right now, mom's got a rav-
enous craving and Meow Mix isn’t
going to fix it. So Charles flashes
his charm on Tanya Robertson

’ (Twin Peak’s Madchen Amick), the
town virgin.

Meanwhile back at the Brady's,
a bunch of cats are gathering.
They sense that the town’s newest

. arrivals are not only from out of

state, but from out of this world.

’ Unfortunately, there are the

standard graphic mutilations.

People lose hands, have pencils

thrust in their ear, get skewered on
picket fences — you know, the
usual. . ;

At least the casting director had
fun. Besides putting horror direc-
tors Tobe Hooper, Clive Barker
and Stephen King in cameos, Ron
Perlman (TV's Beauty and the
Beast) plays a state policeman.

But there’s nothing novel here.
With shades of Psycho, Carrie, Cat
People and Lifeforce, and a dozen
better thrillers, Sleepwalkers is one
tired movie.

Tatie Danielle * x *%
(Cineplex Odeon/MCA Home
Video) Rated Mature

They say old age isn’t for sissies,
but Tatie Danielle (Tsilla Chelton)
has found happiness in her senior
years.

The 82-year-old French pen-
sioner kicks dogs, abandons
children left in her care, treads on
flowers and generally drives her
relatives to despair with com-
plaints and open hostility.

Because of society’s conventions

about the elderly, outsiders don’t
suspect that this gently smiling
widow is more of a black widow.

No one escapes her web of
devious tricks, until her new
caretaker arrives. Sandrine
(Isabelle Nanty), a younger version
of Danielle, sees right through the
auntie from hell (takes one to
know one, ! guess).

This French film delivers gentle
black humor with a caustic edge.
The actors refreshingly resemble
the population at large and not the
usual picture-perfect ‘‘stars.””

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We agree with Ms.Cull’s 1990 position on ‘honest
negotiations’ and ‘adequate and fair remuneration for
physicians:

We once again ask Ms.Cull to honour the position

Two years ago, in this letter to a physician in Victoria, an
NDP MLA named Elizabeth Cull expressed genuine concern
about doctors’ rights to negotiate.

It's a different story today. Now that she’s Health Minister,
she has refused to negotiate a new fee agreement with B.C. _ that she so eloquently and emphatically
doctors and wants to legislate away all Future negotiations. took when she was an opposition MLA.

The doctors of B.C.

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