The Couchpotatoes There is so much to say about The Sandman, unfortunately it's nothing good, but then absolutely nothing good at all. Almost all ingredients to make a bad movie are present, bad actors, a bad script, bad editing, bad CGI's, just everything. From the beginning you immediately know this movie has been made for television, it just oozes amateurism, but it's still watchable. the more you get to the end the more ridiculous and bad it becomes, you just start commenting on everything bad that is happening, in other words you never shut up during the entire last half hour. The main actresses, Haylie Duff and Shae Smolik, are just horrible. Haylie Duff is even bad when she just have to make a facial expression without saying anything. There are some good kids as actors but Shae Smolik isn't one of them, on the contrary she's the opposite. I would suggest those two give up on their acting career, they're still hiring at McDonalds. The scenario wasn't great from the beginning but with the extreme bad CGI's and bad acting this movie just becomes more laughable than anything else. And yes I keep in mind this is a television production, so I don't have to have too high hopes, but I've seen good tv movies before and The Sandman isn't one of them.

cherschleigh EVERYONE is a critic. I don't go to movies to pick them apart. I rate the movie based on the entertainment value of it.This movie was great "lite" fare. Just the right amount of gore and the Sandman was a perfect mummy-like monster.This is worth a look. I would see it again to pick up things I missed the first time.thebat2O

Michael Ledo This is a fairly decent SyFy flick. Madison (Shae Smolik) we discover has telekinetic powers and is able to create a nightmarish Sandman to protect herself from those that would do her harm She winds up in the custody of her aunt (Haylie Duff) who attempts to help and protect her. The film reminded me a bit of "Fire Starter" although the acting and writing was a notch below.

GL84 Following her brother's death, a photographer who takes in her abandoned niece finds that her claims of unwittingly creating a nightmarish creature called The Sandman is true when he begins killing those around her and must a way to stop its bloodthirsty rampage.Overall, this was quite the fun and enjoyable effort. Among its finer qualities is the fact that there's a lot of interest to be had with the central figure here who is a rather fun concept. The titular Sandman is quite an accomplished character with his backstory featuring her involvement in his conception and reality which makes for a really enjoyable time here, and along with the notion of being able to come to life in times of her feeling great stress or anger makes him an accomplished boogeyman. There's some fun to be had here with the way it gets involved with many of the scenes here, as the few scenes he's featured in makes for some really tense and thrilling moments from its first appearance in the convenience store, a fine series of events at her house as at first she conjures a trap to let others onto her powers as well as a later scene where it fully appears to take a victim away and the chase through the car graveyard which is a fine action piece. That it follows the scene with a strong and wholly enjoyable stalking scene in the mausoleum where the creature takes out the agents on her trail in the blackened corridors makes this even more fun by giving it a solid action scene right afterward. The rather fun dreams and flashbacks that occur here are almost as chilling, and given that this mostly leads to fun with the creature's rather strong appearance all done practically with a stellar costume to boot, this one generates a lot to like overall here. This one does have a few minor flaws here, most of which come from the fact that there's not a whole lot of action to come in the creatures' scenes. There's only one prolonged scene of the creature interacting for more than several seconds here as he generally seems to get conjured up and kill those around him in flash quick-cut scenes so it doesn't have much to do. Likewise, this one does tend to come off with little in the way of the creatures' motivations or actual conception as nothing is really given about what it's doing with her, why it chose her or even came into being so the little we get does help although it doesn't offer as much as it could've. Otherwise, there's not much to dislike here.Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Language.