Possibly chosen to fit around De Laurentiis’ desire to maximise his relationship with Barrymore and therefore skirt a less adult tone and therefore rating, they feel a fairly dull set of stories in comparison to what could have been chosen. Which is all well and good… but those familiar with King’s shorts and in particular some of his most famous and, frankly, better ones, such as The Breathing Method, will bemoan the selection of these stories.
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So, sadly the stories never feel like ‘horror’ stories, more a series of absurdist satirical swipes at parts of 80's America. a slice of very 80s, very King horror-tinged humour Finally, the cat arrives at its destination and its destiny, to try and save the young girl (Drew Barrymore) from a vicious demon who wants to steal her very last breath. Inc, an organisation to help him give up smoking by the most cruel and twisted means imaginable while the second sees Robert Hays the subject of a demented bet by Kenneth Macmillan, the man whose wife he is about to run away with, involving a very tall building, a very small ledge and a very dangerous pigeon. Along the way, it interacts with two deliciously twisted tales of man’s propensity for bringing pain and misery to his fellow man – the first sees James Woods sign up to Quitters. And with staggeringly bizarre results…Ī cat is making its way through upstate New York, seemingly following visions of a young girl calling for its help. Screenwriting the hugely fun EC Comics-inspired anthology Creepshow for George Romero meant that when uber Producer Dino De Laurentiis came calling, looking to build upon his own successful King adaptation of Firestarter and to work again with troubled Hollywood Golden Girl Drew Barrymore, another anthology film seemed a perfectly sensible place to start.Īdapting two short stories from his recent Night Shift collection and adding in a written-for-screen third and wraparound tale, King channelled the same overall tone as Creepshow but with less overt supernatural inspiration, more satirically looking into the dark souls of men.
The two go together like peas and carrots, like Laurel and Hardy, like famous authors and their monumental drug habits…Īnd with King now looking to branch out of his literary world into the world of cinema, by 1985 he’d already tried his hand.
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