Stephen King Month: Dreamcatcher

3 Stars - Wonderfully Awful

In the late 90s Stephen King was hit by a van and severely injured, he wrote this book whilst stoned on painkillers... the result is as weird as you'd expect. It's Dreamcatcher.

The book tells the story of four friends who whilst hunting in the woods, split up into groups of two, come across two people both farting insanely. They find it weird, and then find it weirder still when the people shit out weird snake like creatures. The whole area is put under quarantine and the surviving two of the original four must try to save the world from the aliens that spawned the 'shit weasels' with the help of their psychic friend with downs syndrome. Also one of them is possessed by an alien.

It is a very weird book, and one that would seem fairly unfilmable, but they tried it anyway. The result is one of the best worst films I've ever seen. A real guilty pleasure that is nothing but silly from start to finish.

As an adaptation it is perfectly fine, getting across all the major stuff from the book, though really the book shouldn't have been turned into a film I'm kind of glad I got something this fun all the same.

'Classic King'

In short, an awful film, but one heck of a fun film all the same.