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Mary Brady

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Mary Brady is the human-form name of the female 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

Mary Brady looks like a normal young human woman. 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 [w/breasts] 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.

  • It's true form seems to be revealed in mirrors.

Powers and Abilities

Mary Brady possesses the following powers and abilities:

  • Illusion projection
  • Telekinesis
  • Impervious to certain physical damage
  • Vampiric life-force extraction
  • Sexual life-force reception from son
  • Socially acceptable
  • High Strength
  • Difficult to kill

Fate

Mary Brady is attacked by cats and wounded yet it continues to pursue it's prey, strong enough to sustain a spring trap to the back of the head and still able to lift/impale the sheriff onto a picket fence. As it tries to extract it's prey from a car, it is attacked by more cats, which fatally wound it. The wounds erupt in fire and it perishes in the inferno.

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.
  • 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.

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