Charles Brady

Charles Brady is the human-form name of the male monster from the Stephen King film Sleepwalkers (1992).

When newcomers Charles and his mother, Mary settle into a new town, the local residents do not suspect that they're shape-shifters looking to feed on the town's virgin girls. Charles quickly befriends innocent and chaste Tanya when he begins attending high school, hoping to take her life force in order to feed his mother. When Tanya agrees to a first date with Charles, she may learn his true intentions the hard way.

Brian Krause as Charles Brady
Alice Krige as Mary Brady
Mädchen Amick as Tanya Robertson
Lyman Ward as Donald Robertson
Cindy Pickett as Helen Robertson
Ron Perlman as Captain Soames
Jim Haynie as Sheriff Ira Stevens
Dan Martin as Deputy Andy Simpson
Lucy Boryer as Jeanette
Glenn Shadix as Mr. Fallows
Sparks as Clovis
Stephen King as Cemetery Caretaker
John Landis as Lab Technician
Joe Dante as Lab Assistant
Clive Barker as Forensic Tech
Tobe Hooper as Forensic Tech
Mark Hamill as Sheriff Jenkins

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From The Book of Arcane Knowledge

Appearance

Charles Brady looks like a normal young human male. However, this is an illusion created to disguise it's true form. It's true form, though referred to as a 'werecat', is not quite fully a werecat. It has a primate mammalian body plan... two arms, two legs, a torso and a head with two eyes, two ears, one mouth and one nose...but it has the appearance of a feline in respect to its snout, teeth, eyes, claws and lower legs. It's body is nude of hair. It has large black eyes, a canine snout with canine teeth, it's ears are high on the forward part of its head and it has an over-all reddish colored skin. There are thick black claws on its extremities.

During the film, this creature morphs multiple times. Their true form seems to be revealed in mirrors. It appears slightly different according to fear and threat levels it experiences. It also changes when it is dying and during feeding.

Powers and Abilities

Charles Brady possesses the following powers and abilities:

Illusion projection
Telekinesis
Impervious to certain physical damage
Vampiric life-force extraction
Sexual life-force transmission to mother
Socially acceptable

Fate

Charles Brady perishes after Clovis {The Attack Cat} attacks it during the cop car encounter and it limps home to its mother. While trying to drain the life-force from Tanya, she plunges her fingers into his eyes finally killing it.

Trivia

According to director Mick Garris, Stephen King's wife Tabitha King wrote a treatment for a sequel that would have involved a women's basketball team.
Cats see through the illusions and violently attack, inflicting severe to fatal wounds with their claws and teeth.
Mick Garris said an idea he put into the film that hadn't been in King's original script is the introduction and title sequence from that page in the "Book of Arcane Knowledge" (which he invented) to give it a little backstory.
Charles and Mary live in Travis, a small Indiana town, having recently fled Bodega Bay, California, after draining and killing a young girl there.
The sex scene between Brian Krause and Alice Krige was to show he sucks the life force out of a virginal woman and feeds it sexually to his mother. Injects it into his mother with the same blue glow.
Clovis's collar tag reads: " Clovis- The Attack Cat ". The cat's real name was Sparks.
Sleepwalkers was the first film written by King to not be based on one of his preexisting works.
Approximately 100 cats were used during the climactic scene at the house.

Cameos:

Mark Hamill: Sheriff Jenkins, who enters the house at the beginning.
Stephen King: The graveyard caretaker.
John Landis: Laboratory technician.
Clive Barker: Forensic technician.
Tobe Hooper: Forensic technician.
Joe Dante: Laboratory assistant.

Charles Brady

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