Plot:
In the desert, not the man in black is wandering about. I know it can’t be Johnny Cash who deserved the true moniker of man in black.
Griffin prays before going to bed. His parents tuck him in. He is scared of the dark. They try consoling him with there is nothing in the dark to be afraid of. Too
bad, Griffin couldn’t talk to Newt from Aliens about monsters.
After his parents leave the room, Griffin keeps seeing menacing shadows in his room.
The parents’ bedroom door opens…
Griffin hears them scream and stop. He slowly heads to their room. When he sees the Sandman, the slow serial killer stalking walk that is faster than an Olympic
runner ensues….Griffin barely gets out of the house. The police arrive and catch the Sandman who has slaughtered 6 families. The cops promise Griffin the Sandman
won’t get him.
We see Creepy Guy in the distance.
Aren't I creepy?
17 years later, Dana wonders why her friend Dana isn’t involved with the beret-clad Griffin. Maybe because he isn’t Sam Kinison wearing a beret? Griffin has
managed to get an interview with the notorious yet well known Don Sanchez.
Griffin’s roommate, hands him a newspaper that the Sandman is to be executed tonight. Soon, it will be over.
In the most spacious Death Row cell ever, the Sandman is ranting. The guards let in a minister. But, it is the Creepy guy, apparently practitioner of all the black
arts: voodoo, Satanism, equal opportunity creepy guy. The Sandman had his lips sewn shut as a kid and was abused more than that. He has 3 days to kill Griffin.
Later, the Sandman is taken outside. The crucifix Creepy Guy gave him morphs into a small knife. He cuts his hand and, the blood spills on the sand. The guards
rush to check on him. They see the small knife dissolve into sand.
Griffin, Kenny, Dana, and Meg are sitting around. Dana is rambling on about past lives and everything. Unfortunately, she isn’t hot enough for people to pay
attention to her. Drunken Kenny is playing mumbly-peg. Dana mentions how some evil can’t be explained. She brings up the Sandman. The rest look at her like she
just insulted her dear sainted great-grandma. Dana learns that Griffin’s parents were killed by the Sandman. He reveals during the Sandman’s trial, never could find
out who he really was. We can tell Griffin is emotionally scarred from al of this.
Griffin gets a page. He and Meg have to go interview Don. Griffin is going by himself when Meg is at first scared to go. They are waiting to be met to be lead
to Don.
In a dream, the Sandman is prowling around an old run down bedroom. Griffin awakens from his nightmare. He sees it is just about time for the Sandman’s
execution.
In the gas chamber, the Sandman is strapped in and gassed.
A storm rages through the desert. We see sand from into a skeleton.
Dude, this is scary...
The Sandman is truly reborn. He watches the city and vanishes into a pile of sand.
Griffin and Meg are sitting in the car in the bad part of the city. Griffin gets out of the car. We have to have a cheap scare when he jumps because of
Megan. Suddenly, Don Sanchez and his posse magically teleports around them.
The magic sand piles on the ceiling. It transforms into the Sandman.
I could beat the Wishmaster into last week...
Kenny awakens to find sand on the floor. The Sandman grabs him, singing lullabies before
demanding to know where Griffin is. Well, Kenny lives up to his counterpart on
South Park when he is killed. The Sandman leaves his trademark sand in the
eyes.
Later, Griffin is playing back the tape of his interview with Don Sanchez. Flirty Meg and Griffin ensue. The police are on the scene of Kenny’s death. Detective
Ken Foree talks with Griffin. Apparently, Kenny got sand in his eyes and fell off the roof. Griffin picks up on the mentioning of sand. He spots the Creepy Guy
across the street that vanishes in the blink of an eye.
Griffin thinks that Kenny was killed like his parents. Meg thinks Griffin is obsessed with the Sandman.
Griffin gets a Desert Eagle from Don Sanchez. Unfortunately, a blind kid playing Duck Hunt on the 8-bit Nintendo is a better shot than Griffin.
Griffin visits Meg. He gives her the gun. She doesn’t want it. But it is left in her apartment. Griffin leaves.
Griffin visits retired Detective Bronson who we saw at the beginning of the movie. He claims the Sandman is back. They go to the prison. No one was able to
figure out why the Sandman target families with 7 year old sons. They inspect his cell and even see the body in the mortuary. Seeing the cut on his hand, the guard
mentions the creepy minister who gave him a glass cross. Griffin realizes that was the guy he saw across the street.
Creepy guy is on the throne. Not, that throne, an actual one royalty would have. He is ranting about evil. Sandman’s soul is tied to Griffin. With only 2 nights
left to sever the connection.
Griffin and Bronson pay a visit on the Creepy Guy. They find the remains of voodoo sacrifices, various other occult rituals, and a picture of the Sandman as a
kid. Bronson has the instinctive police bad feeling. They find a crazy lady. Creepy guy cursed this place. Crazy lady does tell where Creepy now lives.
At sundown, Meg and Dana are talking. Sand pours down the fireplace. Meg decides to take a shower. The Sandman watches her. But, more skin is shown
in Hitchcock’s Psycho.
Sandman drowns Dana in sand. Meg doesn’t hear Dana’s cries at first. Sand is taken away from Dana by the time Meg has dried and put her clothes
on. Griffin and Bronson arrive.
Bronson rushes to check on Dana. He finds the sand that morphs
Cleanup on Aisle 6...
into the Sandman who kills Bronson.
Griffin unleashes the Desert Eagle on the Sandman to no avail. Meg and Griffin beat feet. They barricade themselves from the Sandman who pours himself
through a keyhole. They barely escape when learning that the Sandman can’t cross water. Wait, I thought vampires couldn’t cross running water.
Griffin and Meg are running down the street when Meg is grabbed. Griffin is able to get the Sandman to chase him. But, Griffin’s car won’t start with the
Sandman right outside. Griffin finally gets it started and drives off searching for Meg. The Sandman pours himself into the car. The cops pull Griffin over for
swerving all over the road.
Griffin is taken to the police station. He tells them about the Sandman. The police think he is slightly crazier than a loon. Detective Ken Foree arrives, demanding
the truth. He breaks off into a rant about people are always blaming killing machines and cannibals. Griffin repeats the Sandman story. The cops get Griffin a nice
white jacket to wear.
Meg overhears some cops talking about how Griffin is a psycho killer. She spots the Desert Eagle.
Griffin is taken to a holding cell and left alone. We see it is almost dawn. Sandman appears before Griffin who is screaming bloody murder. The sunlight burns
the Sandman. I thought that worked on vampires, too? The Sandman vows to return after dark.
We get a flashback to the Sandman as a kid being beaten.
Later, the cops are going to transfer Griffin to the county jail. Meg pulls up wielding the Desert Eagle to rescue Griffin. It is getting close to sundown. Griffin
is tired of running. Meg will be by his side. Suckin’ face ensues.
Don Sanchez arrives and drops them off at a warehouse. We hear the screams of junkies. Griffin is searching for the Creepy guy.
Creepy is doing his mystic mumbo-jumbo. Sandman must sever his mortal link to this world: Griffin. Creepy tells a story about the Sandman as a kid how his
father abused him. Sandman almost kills his baby brother but kills his father instead and runs off. The Sandman is Griffin’s brother. Creepy taught the Sandman. To
sever his mortal link, the Sandman killed all those other families to kill Griffin.
Night suddenly falls with the Sandman appearing. Meg drags Griffin away. They can’t escape the Sandman who pours into the room they’re hiding in. The
door opens. It is Don Sanchez to the rescue. Unfortunately, there is nobody for his rescue as the Sandman sandblasts him to death.
Griffin and Meg are trapped in the warehouse. Sandman deliberately does the patent pending Voorhees shuffle. Griffin gets an idea. Heated sand turns into
glass. Do that to the Sandman.
Griffin and Meg are scampering around in the vents when the Sandman hears them. They get out of the vent. Griffin sets the small gasoline bomb to get the
Sandman.
It is all over. Griffin sees the Sandman approach him. His hand is glass. Griffin wants to know why he’s doing this. Sandman breaks the glass hand off and
impales his with the sharp end. Meg hovers over the dying Griffin.
Meg runs being chased by the Sandman. Suddenly, she spots the giant incinerator she and Griffin passed at least 4 times. The Sandman crawls into it to follow
Meg. She ignites it. At least, that ought to be hot enough to actually heat him into glass.
Meg finally breaks down. Later, she scatters Griffin’s ashes.
Back at the burner, the Creepy Guy getting the glassified remains of the Sandman out.
