Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 9780790778099 Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0790778092 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: June 01, 2004 Running Time: 134 minutes Sales Rank: 3914 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: March 21, 2003
Description: Four young friends perform a heroic act and are changed forever by the uncanny powers they gain in return. Years later, on a hunting trip in the Maine woods, they are overtaken by a blizzard, a vicious storm in which something much more ominous moves. Challenged to stop a deadly alien force, they confront an unparalleled horror, with the fate of the world in the balance.
Amazon.com: Regardless of its critical roasting, Dreamcatcher is a must-see for Stephen King fans. In adapting King's epic novel (itself an amalgam of familiar King plotlines), director Lawrence Kasdan and cowriter William Goldman sacrificed much of the character depth that gave the story its crucial humanity, resulting in a tame frightfest about four longtime friends (Damian Lewis, Jason Lee, Thomas Jane, Timothy Olyphant) whose past--and a shared gift of telepathy--connects them to a present-day alien invasion in the snowy forests of Maine. Like an ambitious episode of The X-Files, this slick production offers slimy 'weasels' that gestate in human bowels; ominous aliens who seize control of bodies and minds; a secret military strike (led by Morgan Freeman) against the invaders; and enough gross-out humor to satisfy jaded horror buffs. Unfortunately, it just isn't scary. Despite its A-list advantages, Dreamcatcher works best as a glorified B-movie, likely to benefit from lowered expectations. --Jeff Shannon
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Rating: - Just your average flesh eating aliens slugs infection/
We have this a special men in black team led by Morgan Freeman
( not God or the President this time out?),
and four telepathic friends of a "retard"...
All taking place in a forest hunting retreat
where the aliens had the misfortune to crash.
The government policy is nothing gets out of the zone alive.
One of the fellows ( Jonesie) gets taken over by a gray man's
mind control, but not completely.
This battle is a horrible one of a Stephen King type...
Rating: - Better Than Expected
This film is much better than most of the reviews claim. I do not know when it became "cool" to hate Stephen King's work, but that is the sense that I get from the negative reviews. This film is a nice spin on the "alien invasion" theme. Pay attention and don't get too lost in the "visual metaphors" that run through the film. Any true fan of sci-fi will enjoy this film. Recommended!
Rating: - Dream or Nightmare Catcher?
Warning: spoilers. Hmm, interesting. Morgan Freeman's E.T. hunter is a crispy critter, burned out from chasing E.T.s for 20 years until what would drive normal human beings insane, like the sight of an extraterrestrial, is taken for granted by him. Hmm, the government agent walks through the quarantined citizenry and tells them that everything is okay and that things will be resolved shortly and then turns around and plans for them to be eliminated. Hmm, a branch of military operations that is above all laws, disguises its identity, and answers to no one, having something to do with Blue. Hmm, the alien hunter should have quit after what happened in Montana? What the hell happened in Montana and why wasn't there anything in the news about it? Hmm, E.T.s carry a waterborne virus that infects and spreads and multiplies and shows up as a skin rash and flatulence but only grows to full force in half the populace, ... Read More
Rating: - WOW! As hilarious film fiascos go, DREAMCATCHER is anything but SSDD!
From what we've heard, quite a bit of Stephen King's DREAMCATCHER was lost in the translation from the page to the screen; but not having read it, we were free to enjoy the movie as a creature feature involving, among other things, slimy, toothy worms that issue forth, in a crescendo of blood and gas, from their victims' recta. There hasn't been this much tension generated in an `Aliens Have Come To Take Our Planet' movie since HOWARD THE DUCK! (Although we had to wonder what director Lawrence Kasdan - who made such high-toned dramas as THE BIG CHILL and THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST - was thinking about as he set up the scene with the alien in the toilet.)
Get ready for Bad Movie delirium as four friends (Thomas Jane, Jason Lee, Damian Lewis, and Timothy Olyphant) head up to a remote cabin in snowy Derry, Maine, as they've done every year for the last twenty years. The area, it so happens, is under paramilitary ... Read More
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