Needful Things (1993)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:6
Rotten:15
Average Rating:4/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 1 min
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: Everyone needs something, and Leland Gaunt, the owner of the newly opened store called Needful Things, has arrived in Castle Rock to fill those needs. On the surface, Castle Rock is a sleepy... Everyone needs something, and Leland Gaunt, the owner of the newly opened store called Needful Things, has arrived in Castle Rock to fill those needs. On the surface, Castle Rock is a sleepy Maine town, but underneath there is a network of longing and restrained hostilities -- the perfect place for a unique curio shop with a little something extra. By revealing choice items, such as a lost figurine or cherished varsity jacket, to individual townsfolk, Gaunt persuades his customers to play dangerous pranks on their unsuspecting neighbors. This price proves more costly as the film unfolds; first two women fight to the death and later one man believes the entire town is out to get him. Sheriff Pangborn is the lone force determined to uncover Gaunt's secret power and save his community from the ultimate evil. [More]
Starring: Ed Harris, Max Von Sydow, Bonnie Bedelia, J.T. Walsh
Starring: Ed Harris, Max Von Sydow, Bonnie Bedelia, J.T. Walsh, Amanda Plummer
Director: Fraser C. Heston
Director: Fraser C. Heston
Story: Stephen King
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any movie that has the devil laughing to ave maria must be worth something Full Review |
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Overlong, over-produced Stephen King byproduct. Forget it along with Firestarter, In the Mouth of Madness, Maximum Overdrive, and all the others.
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Max von Sydow has some good lines, but he delivers them in an utter vacuum.
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I needed to get out of this thing long before the insipid finale.
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Save your soul for something more important. Full Review |
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One of Stephen King's better film adaptations
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A fine adaptation of one of Stephen King's best novels, it almost manages to surpass the book solely on the strength of Von Sydow's glowering villainy.
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Appropriately enough, the film climaxes with a series of huge explosions, each bigger and louder than the one before. Full Review |
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