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Stephen King
Collection Paramount Home Entertainment – 2006 |
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| Paramount Home Entertainment has put four Stephen King films together in one box set. It’s definitely worth the price as you get two of the better films made from a King novel in THE DEAD ZONE and PET SEMETARY. This box set also includes SILVER BULLET & GRAVEYARD SHIFT, which are certainly worth looking at. | ||
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The Dead Zone – Special Collector’s Edition Paramount Home Entertainment – 1983 Directed by David Cronenberg Screenplay by Jeffrey Boam Based on Novel by Stephen King Starring |
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| THE DEAD ZONE is one
of the better film adaptations made from a Stephen King book. David Cronenberg plays it
straight for the first time in his directing career, Christopher Walken & Brooke Adams
turn in marvelous performances and Michael Kamen’s score is beautifully emotional. A schoolteacher Johnny Smith (Christopher Walken) has everything going in his life until one stormy night when a horrible car accident ensues. Johnny goes into a coma for five years, when he awakes he discovers he has the gift of seeing into the future and that his girlfriend Sarah Bracknell (Brooke Adams) has moved on to get married to another man. The power Johnny has ends up being something he uses for good but the gift doesn’t come without a price. In the end, Johnny has to come to terms with what will happen unless he changes the course of history. David Cronenberg completely focuses on the story at hand and proves deft with getting first-rate acting. Cronenberg does magnificent job working with Director of Photography Mark Irwin to engineer gorgeous images that are impressively conceived and executed. Paramount Home Entertainment does the right thing by giving this understated film attention it deserves. Memories From The Dead Zone offers a platform for the cast and crew to recollect about making this film. I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of this feature and the three other behind the scenes segments.
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King’s Silver Bullet Paramount Home Entertainment – 1985 Directed by Daniel Attias Screenplay by Stephen King Based on Novelette by Stephen King Starring |
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| Stephen King adapted
his novelette, Cycle of the Werewolf, a small town Tarker’s Mills is being
terrorized by a killer. The town thinks it’s a maniac on the loose but a young
wheelchair bound boy Marty Coslaw (COREY HAIM) believes that a werewolf is responsible.
With the help of his Uncle Red (GARY BUSEY), they attempt to stop the lycanthrope before
it can kill again. SILVER BULLET is a harmless little film that the whole family can enjoy. It’s not overly scary or gory and it does have a family atmosphere. I’m a little surprised that Dino De Laurentis would want to make another werewolf movie on the heels of THE HOWLING and AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON. But the bold producer tries his luck with this film and comes up short. My biggest problem was not with the story or casting but rather the special effects. Carlo Rambaldi can’t measure up to the superior work Rob Bottin did in THE HOWLING or Rick Baker’s Academy-Award Winning job on AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON. Jay Chattaway’s music takes you back to the pop synth sounds of the 80s and the North Carolina locations do work extremely well in this film. I would have liked some sort of special features just to see what some of the people who worked on this film look like now but oh well. Sit down pop this in and you’ll be mildly entertained for 94 minutes. www.paramount.com/homeentertainment |
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