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By Marie Therese
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Following
The
Green Mile and Hearts
in Atlantis, Dreamcatcher is the latest movie
adapted from an eponymous book written by best-selling author Stephen
King. Be prepared for the aliens in Dreamcatcher
to be a cross between Aliens
and Blade
2 however.
The movie starts off with 4 childhood buddies having a reunion on
a hunting trip in the Maine woods. However, their planned fun-filled
meeting turns into horror when they encounter aliens.
The people they meet seem in dire need of help, but that's probably
because their bodies are hosts to deformed weasel-looking aliens,
who breed at lightning speed. As if it wasn't bad enough, instead
of bursting out of their hosts' stomachs, in the case with Aliens,
these come out through their behinds. Thunderpants
would have farted out a whole colony before you can say pheeeew.
How gross!
These aliens are long and eel like, with humongous mouths bearing
razor sharp teeth that snap at you. But this cannot compare to their
mother alien, who is tall, around 8 feet tall (about 2.4metres),
skinny and emaciated with a huge head and beady eyes.
To battle the aliens, the four men have to use their special powers
gained when they were young after they saved a friend Douglas, nicknamed
'Duddits' (Donnie
Wahlberg) from bullies. It's a theme viewers of It,
a film adaptation of another King horror thriller, will find familiar.
Morgan Freeman plays an army colonel, who's
spent nearly 25 years trying to battle the aliens. He's so crazed
at this point he's willing to kill innocent humans just to get rid
of the aliens they are harbouring unconsciously. It's to prevent
the sacrifice of human lives that the 4 must race against the clock
to destroy the alien lifeforms.
Dreamcatcher is very gruesome. The movie starts off well, showing
the close ties between the pals and keeping you in suspense as to
what will happen next. But once the aliens make their appearance,
and when the military marches onto the scene, the movie gets a bit
messy and all is left of it is the humans fighting with the aliens
all over the place, and the final battle scene with the mother alien.
The actors were good in their potrayals of the characters, although
they were seemingly younger than what was written in the book. Kasdan
did a good job in directing the suspense scenes in the first half
of the movie.
Dreamcatcher the movie is true to the book, bringing all that
was written faithfully to the big screen.
If you are a fan of Stephen King's novels turned movies you should
not give Dreamcatcher a miss.
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