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 DREAMCATCHER
PLOT
Four old friends go up to a cabin in the snowy mountains to get
away from the big city. As two of them goes to buy some food and
drinks for the weekend, the other two men stay in the cabin. When
a man stumbles onto them, claiming that he has been lost in the
woods for two days, the two men think that the only right thing
to do is to let him in. The man seems to be in a pretty good
condition considering the circumstances, all he has is a rumbling
stomach and some red marks on his cheek. But the two men soon
find out that it wasn't for no reason that the mans stomach was
rumbling, something that lived inside the man has come out and is
now killing whatever it can kill.
REVIEW
Let me start off by saying that while I love Stephen King's latest
movies, they copy too much from his older ones, and this is the
case for Dreamcatcher aswell. However, this didn't feel like such
a big issue in this movie since a lot of the movie was very different
from King's other novels. The effects were amazing and very realistic,
even more realistic than in Signs (which Dreamcatcher reminded a lot
of). A thing that bothered me was that we never really got to know
the characters in the movie, I'm suspecting that this has to do
with the short runtime of 2 hours. If this would have been released
to TV and Video instead, it would probably have lasted for about
four hours or something.
The directing is excellent and you can tell by the effects and
by the scenery that this was made on a high budget. The acting
however is only average, this isn't the actors fault though,
we never get to know the characters and in the end of the movie
they just decide to throw in a new character which becomes one
of the main persons, why didn't we get to know him earlier?
The opening of the movie was very average King though, introducing
all the characters in the movie so that we'll know who they are,
and this is probably the first time that that doesn't work in a
King movie.
While I really liked the movie, I didn't feel as if it was anything
original, and I kept thinking to myself 'Anyone could have made
this if they had the money to do it'. An extended version wouldn't
be all that bad, maybe when it comes to TV? As I said earlier,
the latest Stephen King films tend to be very similar with his
previous movies, and in Dreamcatcher you can recognize movies
like "It", "Stand By Me", "Misery" & "The Shining". I liked all
of those movies, so for me, this was great.
GORE
It starts out as a pretty gory movie actually, with some cut off
fingers and gory bruises and impalings, but it quickly turns
into a non-gory Sci-Fi Action movie, maybe they should have
continued with the gore for just a little longer.
SOUNDTRACK
Nothing amazing, the average war-action drums and music, a track
that sounds very similar to Elvis Presley's "Now Or Never".
The creepy music that plays during the opening titles is way
cool though, with its creepy tubular bells.
BOTTOM LINE
One of Stephen King's best recent horrormovies, but nothing very
original. I can tell you this, if you want to see Dean Koontz's
Phantoms mixed with Stephen King's Stand By Me, this movie will
not let you down. I liked it a lot, but it could've been better
and perhaps just a little more original. Totally worth checking
out though, and watch it at the cinema, don't wait until the DVD.
Review
By: AnthroFred
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