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Then, in rapid succession, the muscle tone and sense of feeling ebbs from your arms and torso, and your neck flops over. I'm so tired of falling asleep all the time. By EDDIE BATHA. Last updated at 13:12. Read receipts demand accountability. Knowing that the person on the other side of my small, maddening screen can see when I have read their texts incentivizes me to. As filming begins today on the sequel to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Warner Bros. These are scene-by scene breakdowns of costumes and hand props for a screen-accurate rendition of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Makeup (including tattoos and scars. WavSource.com is a comprehensive, yet free, compilation of thousands of choice sound bites and sound clips from all sorts of sources, including movies, TV, news. You're aware of all this as it happens, but you're powerless to halt the process. Next you lose contact with your voice and mouth and then your sight closes down. Finally, all that is left of you is your hearing and brain, spinning, still alert, in the void of your rag- doll body. But often this, too, closes down. Then suddenly, you wake up again, fully functioning once more. Scroll down for more .. Welcome to the world of the narcoleptic. This is what I go through several times a day. But compared to some sufferers, this isn't so bad. One woman from Sussex, whose narcolepsy is at the extreme end of the spectrum, has been pronounced dead and taken to the mortuary on three separate occasions, all the while able to hear the fuss going on around her but powerless to do anything to let anyone know she is still alive. In medical terms, narcolepsy is a sleep disorder characterised by chronic daytime sleepiness - and periods when you actually fall asleep. Around three quarters of sufferers have cataplexy (the loss of muscle tone while remaining fully conscious). Other symptoms include sleep paralysis (which leaves you unable to move as you fall asleep) and hallucinations. The daytime sleep attacks usually occur with little apparent reason, and often with the minimum of notice. If you're tired it can happen all the more abruptly, giving no time to find somewhere comfortable to rest. Once, when walking back from work, I woke up in a hedge. Fortunately, it is usually less embarrassing, although the number of shoulders I have fallen asleep on while on trains and buses is too cringeworthy to count. This daytime sleepiness is mirrored by a propensity to wake throughout the night, creating a vicious cycle of sleep interruption and catch- up. My first realisation that something was not right was aged 1. I used to fall asleep in lessons. At the time, I put it down to boredom as it only happened at school. But gradually, the uncontrolled exhaustion crept across all subjects taking its toll on my A- levels - resulting in a spell at college to do retakes. My end- of- term report was something along the lines of: . By this stage I was nodding off four or five times a day. I was banished from attending lectures by visiting speakers, due to the inevitable embarrassment of having one of the students nod off within the opening ten minutes. A recent study reports that it takes on average 1. I consider myself fortunate that I only had to suffer six years of being told by doctors to go to bed earlier, give up smoking and eat more greens. I always knew there was a problem but as no doctor could give me any answers, and nothing I did seemed to make any difference, I learnt to live with the problem. Eventually a newspaper article my mother found, which was subsequently thrust into the hands of my GP, resulted in my finally being able to say the words: . I have narcolepsy, I was born this way. A normal person's sleep sequence would move from wakefulness into an hour of deep sleep, then into REM (rapid eye movement), in which your brain dreams while holding your body paralysed to prevent you from acting them out. By contrast, a narcoleptic goes directly into REM sleep, meaning that the body is suddenly paralysed and dreams can occur immediately. No one knows why this happens, nor why sleep is not confined to night- time. But without the benefit of the period of deep, calming sleep beforehand, these dreams can be generated directly off your woken thoughts and anxieties, and can twist into terrifying visions of violent beatings or the savage eagle that attacked me regularly in my sleep for a few years. Fortunately, these dreams have disappeared as I've got older. Now I frequently have fantastic dreams - with great freeflow adventures condensed into a few hours. This is the upside to narcolepsy. However, the sudden and unexpected onset of these dreams can lead to confusion for all concerned. People close to me will sooner or later find themselves receiving deeply inappropriate answers to questions. We can be sitting in a car, chatting away, when I will nod off quietly and pass into immediate dreaming. Sometimes it lasts only a matter of seconds and I wake in time to answer my friend's question. It is usually during the long pause that follows when it begins to dawn on me that the . As well as the sleep attacks, paralysis and hallucinations, the passage and distinction between being awake and being asleep and dreaming is sometimes so blurred, that your body can still go about everyday behaviour while a part of your brain is asleep and dreaming. This trance- like . The brain slides from normal behaviour into auto- behaviour without you knowing it - it is only when clarity washes over you again, that you realise you've spent ten minutes in front of your computer not entirely sure what you've been doing. One woman with narcolepsy reported being woken up from this autopilot state to the sound of all her crockery crashing around in the washing machine. In her narcoleptic state, she'd put the dishes in the washing machine. Diagnosis leads to medication, and after a variety of tests I was prescribed dexamphetamine on the ready admission that . Put the two together: problem solved. To a great extent this was true, and it was a relief to be able to start functioning much the same as anyone else. However, amphetamine exacts its own price - it is addictive. The longer you take it, the bigger the dose you require. As soon as you miss that dose, your body descends into withdrawal. Eventually the swings of highs and lows inherent to the drug became too extreme. I moved on to Mazindol, an amphetamine- based pill originating from the days when this was considered a viable dietary route, then on to Ritalin - the ADHD drug - briefly, and finally Provigil. In many ways the latter is a wonder drug as you can take it as and when you wish. And unlike the amphetamines that spiked my moods, knotted my stomach and dried out my mouth, I cannot feel Provigil in my body. However, none of these drugs actually treat the causes of narcolepsy, they just try to negate the symptoms. To confuse matters further, every narcoleptic suffers the various aspects of the condition at different strengths - for some the medication is sufficient to allow them to get a driving licence, while others need to be medicated to the eyeballs just to achieve a normal waking day. One year, soon after diagnosis, I attended the United Kingdom Association for Narcolepsy (UKAN) annual conference in Hounslow Town Hall. As a narco with a few years of college under my belt, I knew that the pole position is at the back, behind the tall person, near the door and preferably in front of a pillar to lean a nodding head against. The stifling, unventilated room and tedious minutiae of the association's AGM gradually started to take their toll, with yawns appearing around the room. But this was the one place you must not fall asleep. In the meeting of the sleepiest people in the country, to succumb first would be to face the dreadful admission that you are the worst. The torture was further compounded by the genial speaker, who explained to a room full of narcoleptics what it is like to have narcolepsy, although, as he admitted, he did not have it himself. By the time we broke for tea I was the living dead. But then came the final sabotage - cakes and biscuits. The narcoleptic's greatest craving and falsest friend is sugar - its rush promising such energy, but soon crashing the system into exhaustion. With heads sagging and eyes floundering, torpor set in all around and the afternoon's discussions were a bit limp. Despite this, UKAN is a lifeline to sufferers and its very existence - given the inertia inherent to the illness - defies the odds and is a testament to its founders. I hid my problem from employers for many years. If the narcolepsy happened in the morning I'd just claim to have a hangover, and to get through the afternoon I learnt the art of power napping. In winter, I would put the lid down and sleep on the loo, always nodding off immediately and waking exactly 1. No one ever seemed to notice. As time went on I decided to stop feeling guilty about having narcolepsy, after all I never asked to be like this, so why should I be beaten by it? With a greater openness I discovered that people were sympathetic, and so I became quicker to tell them, but still never before I'd proved myself. My last employers were kind enough to give me sole dispensation to use the sofa for brief snoozes, much to the envy of my colleagues. As illnesses go, people tend to find the condition intriguing and amusing, and narcoleptics also maintain a good sense of humour about their predicament. But it can be a curse to those who have to put up with us. My wife, Tash, always has to do the driving and gets bored of having to explain the plots of films whose critical moments I have dozed through. I cannot think of much on the plus side of her being married to a narcoleptic except that I am so used to being awake at night that I was the obvious choice for the night- time feeds of our new baby. Recently, following studies of a pack of naturally narcoleptic dogs, there has been an exciting breakthrough with the discovery of a protein called orexin, created in the brain's hypothalamus. Present in the cerebrospinal fluid (the liquid that bathes the brain and spine) of healthy people, it is very low or undetectable in sufferers of narcolepsy. Investigations suggest that either the orexin, or the original orexin secretion cells in the hypothalamus, may have been destroyed by a defect in the body's immune system. Horror A - CHORROR. A - CABBY. While in Africa on an archaeological dig, Dr. Garnet Williams. (William Marshall) finds a wooden vessel in a cave and opens it. Eshu, the demon god of sexuality (among. Meanwhile, in Louisville, Kentucky, Williams'. Emmett (Terry Carter; BROTHER. ON THE RUN - 1. 97. Abby (Carol Speed; DISCO. GODFATHER - 1. 97. Abby's mother Miranda (Juanita Moore; THE. MACK - 1. 97. 3, also with Carol Speed) are seen moving into a. It's not long. before the ultra- religious Abby begins experiencing floating objects. She. is raped in the shower by Eshu (we see subliminal flashes of Eshu. Abby begins to physically and mentally deteriorate (she. Emmett in. the nuts) and Emmett, at first, fears Abby is on drugs, but her. Cass Potter (Austin Stoker; HORROR. HIGH - 1. 97. 3), doesn't believe that is the problem. When Abby. rips her clothes off in front of two church members (Emmett says to. Williams, you. see, is also a priest and has performed exorcisms in the past. Emmett. puts his wife in the hospital, but all the tests find nothing wrong. Williams arrives in Louisville and. Abby, she runs out of the house and Emmett steals a. Abby ends up at a bar, where she kills. Cadillac and it fills up with smoke as she begins talking in her. Emmett and Cass catch up with her at the bar (she. Dr. Williams arrives. Abby/Ushu says to him, . Abby wakes up with no memory of what. Praise the Lord! While that. American International Pictures, who released this film. There have been more blatant rip- offs of THE EXORCIST. BEYOND THE DOOR. . Director William Girdler (ASYLUM. OF SATAN - 1. 97. GRIZZLY. - 1. 97. DAY OF THE ANIMALS. Philippines in 1. I never liked the term. William Marshall, fresh. BLACULA(1. 97. 2). SCREAM BLACULA SCREAM. Eshu. out of Abby's body. The exorcism at the bar is a sight to behold, as. Marshall spouts religious mumbo- jumbo, while Abby screams out. My favorites being, ! That's your nature! This is good, mindless fun that. The gray market DVD by. Cinefear Video looks to have been sourced from a beat- up 1. DVD extras. Definitely worth an investment. Also starring Charles. Kissinger (a regular Girdler player), Elliott Moffitt, Nathan Cook. Don Henderson and Bob Holt as the voice of the demon Eshu. American. International Pictures wanted to change the name to THE. BLACKORCIST before it's release, but saner heads prevailed. A Cinefear. Home Video Release. Rated R. ABERRATION. Amy Harding (Pamela Gidley) and her cat move into her parents' cabin. New Zealand forest. He tells her that all the. After finding her cat dead, Amy. Marshall find themselves trapped in her cabin by a blizzard and. These lizard- creatures can mutate at an alarming speed. They also spit out a venom which blind their victims. Amy is harboring a deep secret that. Absurd to the extreme, ABERRATION. Amy finds her cat dead (no feelings of remorse) or when she. I sure as hell. would not want to have her for a friend. Director Tim Boxell (CHASING. DESTINY - 2. 00. 0) offers some gore (bodies being eaten. Mc. Guyver- type surgery) but the lizards look so. Not the good kind. An. Artisan Entertainment Home Video Release. Rated R. THE. ABOMINATION (1. What. an apt title for this horrible ultra- low budget made for video clunker! The tumor. escapes from the trash and crawls under her son's (Scott Davis) bed. Mom thinks is the Whore of Babylon!). He. even brings the creature to the office of Brother Fogg, hiding it in. Fogg's toilet waiting for Fogg to take the last crap of his life. When the creature gets too big to carry around. Davis' kitchen cabinets wating for him to feed it the. When Davis falls in. Davis to kill her. Will Davis kill her or destroy the. See if you can stay awake to find out. The very bloody. effects are the only reason to sit through this catastrophe. Fortunately, this film shows. Davis. has a succession of nightmare flashbacks, so you don't have to watch. Wasn't that a nice thing to do? Director Max Raven. Bret. Mc. Cormick) also made OZONE. ATTACK OF THE REDNECK MUTANTS. Donna Michele Releasing has a slew. Also starring Jude Johnson, Blue. Thompson, Brad Mc. Cormick and Suzy Meyer. A Donna Michele Home Video. Release. Also available on limited. VHS by boutique label Massacre. Video (It is in very limited supply and sold out by the time you. Bay scam to charge ridiculous. Unrated. AGAINST. THE DARK (2. 00. 9) - Although. Steven Seagal's first foray into horror territory, the sad. Romania DTV. effort where Seagal has minimal screen time and he couldn't be. Seagal. is doing this strictly for the money and can't be bothered with such. DTV flicks). Instead of battling. Japanese criminals or smarmy. Seagal and his squad of commandos square- off. Seagal. portrays Tao (The Tao Of Steve? Sorry about that.), the leader of a. Those who die are the. Tao and a small group of Hunters. Dorothy (Jenna Harrison) and. Morgan (Danny Midwinter) lead a group of survivors through the. The rest of. the film is nothing but endless man vs. The. introduction of an insane doctor, who stalks the hospital and. The bloated. Seagal shows up about every fifteen minutes or so to slice- up a. Dorothy, Morgan and the hospital survivors. The direction, by first- timer Richard Crudo. Seagal's much- better PISTOL. WHIPPED . There's not much in the way. Seagal enters the operating room and unceremoniously blows the. BOURNE. IDENTITY!) and the acting non- existent (Seagal, who is also. Producers, seems to let his painted- on hair do most. If Seagal looks so bored and. DTV efforts, why should we continue to. There's plenty of splashy gore, which includes lots of. But, if your idea of a good. Romanian extras being. I would advise that you avoid AGAINST. THE DARK. Also starring Tanaoi Reed (a stunt double for. Dwayne . A Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. DVD Release. Rated R. ALBINO. FARM (2. 00. Being born, bred and. Northern New Jersey hills, I know a thing or two. Not only did an albino family live on the same street. I spent my entire childhood (My father outright banned me from. Even as a child, that didn't sit. But that's another story for another time..). Albino Village, a town. The story was bullshit, of course, but it was a fun way to. Don't get me started on Jackson Whites. Google. the term if you have never heard of them.). Now I hope we are all. Jackson Whites) are no. Which brings us to ALBINO. FARM. Like the Albino Village of my childhood, the title. Ozark Mountains, a place not only. The adjoining town to the title location is named Shiloh and. The. four Gen- X'ers, Stacey (Tammin Sursok), Brian (Nick Richey; WELCOME. TO THE JUNGLE - 2. Melody (Alicia Lagano) and Sanjay. Sunkrish Bala), crack redneck jokes and buy a tire from a local. Jeremiah (Duane Whitaker; TRAILER. PARK OF TERROR - 2. Instead of taking his advice (and not wondering why. Jeremiah has a pile of perfectly good tires on rims in his backyard). Caleb (Richard. Christy) mentions the Albino Farm. They go about interviewing the. This is not going to be a pleasant night for the outsiders. Until. then, it's a fairly creepy, if generic, foray into the absurd, as our. Indian actor Sunkrish Bala portray one of the stupid outsiders, but. Shiloh and its deformed citizens. First- time feature. Sean Mc. Ewen and Joe. Anderson offer plenty of atmosphere, freakish makeups, including a. Another major distraction is the. Not only is this camera effect headache- inducing. Add to that an ending a blind man could spot. Missouri) that is much less. Also starring. Kevin Spirtas, Paul Ford and Joicie Appell. An MTI. Home Video DVD Release. Rated R. ALIEN. Holy crap! This Italian horror flick is a chore to sit through. The. first half of this film is so slow and mundane, if I were. I would be praying for sunrise. While waiting for the. Thelma. Joyce (Belinda Mayne) is being interviewed on a TV talk show when she. Her boyfriend Roy. Marc Bodin) comes rushing out and explains that Thelma is psychic. Rather than worry about her. Thelma and Roy go bowling (!) with friends. After bowling. Thelma has another vision at the beach, just before a little girl has. Thelma and. her friends (which includes future director Michele Soavi . After. rappelling deep into the cave for what seems like half a lifetime. Bert brings his typewriter with. The. next morning, they all go exploring and the blue rock that Thelma. Something looking like a piece of raw liver leaps. Jill, but only Thelma. After what seems like another half a lifetime of rescuing Jill. I could have gotten a shave and a haircut and not. Jill's eyesocket. The first guy is. Bert and girlfriend Maureen. Judy Perrin) are next to die, as the alien. Thelma seems to have some psychic link to the. And it gets bigger after every. And it can possess people. And it can program a VCR (OK, I made. Thelma and Roy escapes the caves only to find out. Earth. After a. nasty meeting with an alien back at the bowling alley, you better. Filled with scenes of. ALIEN. 2 (also known as ALIEN TERROR). Belinda Mayne (WHITE. FIRE - 1. 98. 4) does nothing but look confused, scream and run. I was doing when watching this (including the naked part). The. gore scenes are nasty, but there is no way I would ever recommend. The only. differences were the opening credits and the Spanish version has five. The gore is the same in both. There's. supposedly a 1. Flush it, now! The only. Also starring Robert Barrese. Benny Aldrich, Don Parkinson and Claudio Falanga. Too bad the film is a turd but, man, is it now. ALIEN. 5. 1 (2. 00. Here are the three. It's released by York Entertainment. It . The local sheriff (Sean. Galuszka) is helped by Dr. Cleo Browning (Phoebe Falconer), a. X- 9 and is working undercover for the. Fish & Game agent. Psycho Billy (Chase Hoyt), a circus. Evelda. (Fleiss), look to capture the X- 9 and make it part of their freak. Also searching for the creature are a pair of horny. Guess who. gets killed first? With the pro- animal duo out of the way, the. Cleo (who looks like a low- rent Traci Lords) become. Cleo tells the sheriff who she really is (the X- 9. The creature captures snaggle- toothed moonshiner Cletus. Matthew Christopher) and feeds him to a baby X- 9!
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