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Stephen King's Nightmares And Dreamscapes
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Synopsis
Over the years, Stephen King’s short stories have proven endlessly adaptable to both the big and small screens. NIGHTMARES & DREAMSCAPES comprises eight chilling episodes, each based on a different King short story. The miniseries features cutting-edge special effects and an all-star cast that includes William H. Macy, William Hurt, Tom Berenger, Kim Delaney, Steven Weber, Henry Thomas, Samantha Mathis, and Claire Forlani.
Stephen king heaven! Worth your money!
Review date: 2008-04-16 Rating: 10 out of 10
Im a huge stephen king fan and couldn't wait for this to come out. Not all the stories are horror but most are creepy and tragic. 'Battle ground' was the best and 'the fith quater' was probably the worst. Some episodes are more miss than hit, but always entertaining and there is something for almost everyone. Each episode is quite different, there is some great acting, great special fx and always enjoyable. All in all, this has some really unmissable episodes and a particularly creepy one named 'road virus heads north'. A neat and entertaining series, perhaps the best £25 i ever spent!
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Reviews
Age is not the best counsellor in the field of horror
Review date: 2007-12-29 Rating: 8 out of 10
A miniseries of eight short TV films adapted from Stephen King's rather recent short stories. They are all in the style of the famous Twilight Zone serial but never as dark as the old model. In fact Stephen King in these short stories was trying to use different styles from what he is most known for, horror and terror. So most of the time he did not try to terrify his audience, at most horrify them, but often gross them out, and barely more. So hardly any real violence and extreme fantastic violence. Rather soft estrangement from standard life and the ordinary world of ours. We are thus surprised, disquieted, worried, but never anguished nor frightened. This softening goes along with a theme that is quite common: death and good old time nostalgia. The mind behind these stories has put quite a few years behind his forehead and his probably pot-bellied stomach. The vision is no longer that of a young child, a teenager or a young man who discard and rejects the wisdom coming from older people and for whom older people are danger, the devil, evil, something to get rid of before it dies in their hands. Here we have the vision of an older man, or woman, looking back at the world the way it was when they were young and they compensate the fact it is gone by making it evil. That old time and its characters do not come back into the present to haunt it. Rather the older people of today are transported into that old time of their youth. So it is not Sometimes They Come Back, but Sometimes They Drift Backwards. At time the danger comes from toys, hence children, the next generation, but the danger is seen from the point of view of the older man. The short stories and these short TV films are from an older author who is following the call that comes up from his muscular fiber. He has aged but without really deepening his vision. He has shifted points of view and the present vision is that of an older man probably produced and directed for television in the line of the baby boomers who are starting to get off the labor market and have a lot of time to spend and the desire never to let themselves die into and from inactivity, idleness. So let them have the good old stories about the good old time when they feared nothing but in which they would be absolutely frightened ****less if they had to go there again. Well done but rather too mild to be considered as horror or even fantastic stuff.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
DESTINED TO BE CLASSIC
Review date: 2007-12-23 Rating: 10 out of 10
NOT STRICTLY HORROR, BUT THIS SMALL SERIES IS GREAT NONTHELESS, THERE ARE TWINGES OF H.P. LOVECRAFT IN CROUCH END BUT THEN AGAIN THAT WRITER HAS INFLUENCED SO MANY OTHERS. NOT BASED ON THE ENTIRE BOOK OF SHORT STORIES ENTITLED NIGHTMARES AND DREAMSCAPES IN FACT SOME ARE FROM ONE OF HIS OTHER ANTHOLOGIES. THE ACTING IS GREAT AND THE QUALITY IS AWESOME THIS IS KING TV AT ITS BEST.
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Samantha Mathis
Tom Berenger
William H. Macy
Steven Weber
William Hurt
Creators:
Tom Berenger (Primary Contributor)
Steven Weber (Primary Contributor)
Director(s):
Recording label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
EAN: 7321902116044
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 3
Format: Box set, PAL,
Release date: 2007-04-16
Audience rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 361 minutes
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