Stephen Kings Novels Recreated into Films Movie Review

Stephen Kings Novels Recreated into Films - Movie Review ExampleThe story of Dr Louis Creed (Midkiff) and his efforts to doctor his three-year-old son (Hughes), killed by one of the giant trucks that thunder past their new Maine home, is more like a sketchy outline than a finished work. No film about a scalpel-wielding three-year-old psycho zombie could be entirely devoid of shocks. But reams of tedious exposition, about a childrens pet sematary and the magical resurrecting properties of an Indian burial ground, stretch patience and credulity to their limits, while Lambert fails to exploit the potential of the novels best set pieces. The stories told in flashback by Creeds wife (Crosby) and their elderly live (Gwynne) also seem hopelessly contrived, arresting the books page-turning plot without adding emotional or psychological depth.If Pet Sematary was just a movie, then it might seem in some manner acceptable its plot, sort of a modern day zombie flick, is fairly creepy, and its premise is sufficiently horrific. Pet Sematary is not, however, a stand-alone film. It is, after all, a transformation of a novel, and a great novel, at that. Though plotwise, the film stays fairly true to Stephen Kings novel, it remains flat and unconvincing throughout. Unfortunately, this is a fate that has befallen more or less of Kings work. Stephen Kings novels dont, as a rule, translate well onto the silver screen. In much the same way that Church, having come back from the dead, seems to be missing something vital, so do Kings books when they transition to movies. Perhaps this is beca expend so much of the action in Stephen Kings novels, so much of what is horrifying in them, happens to the characters internally. It is their thoughts, their fears, their histories and hopes, that make Kings novels so successful. Films often have hassle conveying this, and this is especially true of the horror genre. Pet Sematary is no exception to this rule. The novel that Pet Sematary is based on is probably one of the best, most fright horror novels ever written, and that only makes the movie even more disappointing. In his novel, Stephen King reveals the horror layer by layer, peeling away the sense of newton and safety little by little, until all that is left is sheer terror.DreamcatcherStarring Morgan Freeman, Thomas Jane, Director Lawrence Kasdan, Release Date March 2003, Genres Horror, Suspense.The movie opens with four churning guys in their late twenties, Dr. Henry Devlin (Thomas Jane), Joe Beaver Clarendon (Jason Lee), Gary Jonesy Jones (Damian Lewis) and Pete Moore (Timothy Olyphant), dealing with their gift. These lifelong buddies were given the ability to read minds and more by a mentally challenged guy named Douglas Duddits Cavell (Donnie Wahlberg) when they were young. Now they use their magic to do such mundane things as finding the lost car keys of a real estate agent that one of them wants to date. But their talents go forth soon be put to the t est.Meanwhile back in the snow-covered woods where the guys are going for their annual outing, trouble is brewing. The mad Colonel Abraham Kurtz (Morgan Freeman), ably aid by