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Dreamcatcher

Dreamcatcher

2003
Sci-fi
2h 14m
Dreamcatcher, the film based on Stephen King's best-selling novel, tells of four young friends who perform a heroic act -- and are changed forever by the uncanny powers they gain in return. Years later the friends, now men, are on a hunting trip in the Maine woods when they are overtaken by a blizzard, a vicious storm in which something much more ominous moves… (Warner Bros.)
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Dreamcatcher

2003
Sci-fi
2h 14m
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Rated 14 Mar 2008
8
0th
I want to write this review directly to the person who edited the trailer for Dreamcatcher. You, whoever took this hunk of crap and crafted the most criminally deceptive movie trailer in the history of cinema; the guy who convinced me and my friends that somehow this steaming pile of rat crap was going to make an intense and scary movie, and that two hours of my life, as well as my hard earned money, would be well spent watching this stinking abortion of a film: to you, sir, I say: FUCK YOU.
Rated 24 Feb 2007
37
22nd
What could have been an interesting story about a group of children with supernatural powers growing up instead turns into a fight against an alien invasion force. Like a few of Stephen Kings novels the aliens feel tossed in as an excuse to end the story. The part with the children and their relationships with one another growing up is actually interesting and I would've loved to see much more focus on that.
Rated 10 Aug 2017
48
12th
Scat humor, British aliens, and King tropes. It spends fifteen minutes demonstrating its characters' psychic powers and an hour forty-five demonstrating their complete lack of common sense. Jason Lee dies way too early. The Duddits character never adds up. Morgan Freeman and Tom Sizemore get boatloads of screentime for no reason. Native American beliefs have nothing to do with any of it, of course. For all the Alien/Shining/Thing type of potential they really pinched off a double-flusher here.
Rated 23 Sep 2008
20
6th
Aliens. From. Asses.
Rated 08 Feb 2014
30
6th
A truck smashes Stephen King into so many pieces all he can muster is SHIT WEASELS.
Rated 09 Apr 2021
22
5th
Strong contender for the worst King adaptation of all time. It's unfocused, poorly paced, overlong, full of weird exposition dialogue, swerves wildly from bad drama to bad comedy and keeps asking the audience to compare it to much better movies... And the worst part is, all of that almost seems like a deliberate ploy to hide what is fundamentally a crap idea.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
1
5th
What the hell is this movie about someone explain it to me
Rated 03 Oct 2009
30
13th
If you wanted to write a Stephen King parody you probably couldn't make it dumber than this
Rated 04 Nov 2011
60
35th
A fascinating mess yes, but I have to confess that, from what is on screen, even the aspects faithfully transferred from the Stephen King novel, having not read it, feel misjudged and erratic. Tonal problems - serious yet with a main creature which forces bathroom humour on the plot - peculiar flights into magic realism and sci-fi, and Morgan Freeman's bizarre pointed eyebrows plague the film, making it memorable but in the end a car crash.
Rated 24 Jan 2012
4
0th
Saying this the worst Stephen King adaptation doesn't do this justice. That's like saying it's the worst STD Tommy Lee has. But the cast and the director and the writer. I mean, this definitely represents the prettiest girl that Tommy Lee got an STD from. Terrible from start to finish, much like the career of, wait for it, Vince Neil. Oh! Change-up humor!
Rated 06 Nov 2016
25
2nd
(spoilers) Wow movie. You really caught me off guard with all this nonsense. You have a guy who would rather grab a toothpick than stay alive. Sinister farting. Shit weasels. Giant morgan freeman eyebrows. A British alien and a Retarded alien. Why do I feel like this movie came from a grab bag of adjectives and nouns rather than any sort of coherent writing process? I was dumbfounded throughout the whole film. Just stop it Stephen King. Stop it.
Rated 19 Mar 2007
43
14th
Pretty dumb considering the book is actually good.
Rated 20 Mar 2007
20
3rd
You must be joking me Mr. Kasdan. Your sci-fi adaptation of Stephen King's novel even makes Morgan Freeman wreak. A bunch of ridiculous stories collide in one doomed movie about aliens and telepathy.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
54
28th
Another average movie based from a good Stephen King book. That's all.
Rated 23 Jun 2008
19
6th
Adapted from a great Stephen King novel, the film version of "Dreamcatcher" lives impressively up to its potential for the first 45 minutes or so, building a creeping sense of dread with unique visual stylings and deliberate pacing. Once the villain at hand is revealed, in fact, to be a monster that looks like a giant vagina with teeth, things go laughably downhill.
Rated 15 Dec 2008
40
11th
The western world's fascination with and borderline fetishization of the mentally retarded goes back centuries. It was stupid then, it's stupid now, and it's REALLY stupid here. But hey, reptilian worms crawling out of people's asses can save a film, right? Right?
Rated 31 Dec 2008
80
79th
First reel is stellar but it does slip in to standard B movie monster fair for much of the remainder. Still a good film that's definetly worth a look. It seems to jump a few times though, plot wise. Not sure if this was due to crappy novel writing or lost in translation. If anything it needs an extra half hour to flesh out some parts. And Affleck might be the bomb in Phantoms but Wahlberg is the bomb in Dreamcatched, yo.
Rated 02 Aug 2009
32
13th
Uhm...what?
Rated 09 Apr 2010
19
2nd
Stephen King must have been beaten up a whole lot as a kid. Seriously, just get over it. Anyway, arse-aliens, a magical tard and Morgan Freeman. What does it all mean? Not a clue.
Rated 02 Jul 2010
44
3rd
When you look at the cast members this film has you think it is a sure fire hit where the acting is top notch. I respect most of the actors in this film, but they were all terrible, even the omnipresent Morgan Freeman could not turn in a good performance. Now the best scenes and the ones that advanced the plot the most were the ones when the four men were kids. I did not care much for them as grown men, but you could instantly buy into the bullying aspect from when they were kids.
Rated 22 Sep 2010
45
13th
Like any other Stephen King movie it loses far too much squashing it into a few hours. I am not sure that this movie ever would work in any sort of format though. Any book with shit weasels and prolonged farting might be a little too out there.
Rated 12 Apr 2012
30
1st
Colossally bad in every respect. The beginning actually showed a bit of promise, and I actually wanted to believe that despite all the reviews, I might actually be able to sit through this without laughing at really inappropriate scenes, bad acting from decent actors, or the extremely bizarre sound effects.
Rated 16 Sep 2012
71
31st
Lotsof potential. No follow through.
Rated 28 Oct 2012
50
43rd
'Dreamcatcher' has too much going on for it's own good. On one hand it is prototypical King: Childhood friends reuniting over a trauma from their past, only to find themselves entangled in some extra terrestrial plot. On the other hand it's an alien invasion movie, with badass Freeman hunting badass aliens. It's not that either movie in itself would have been terrible, but somehow these two plot strains manage to cancel eachother out. Oh, and the bad guy is called Mr. Gay. True story.
Rated 09 Dec 2012
30
8th
Wow! This was far worse than I remember... Calling Dreamcatcher "heavy handed" would be the understatement of the year, and between the "King's past stories - all of them!" plot, Morgan Freeman wearing R. Lee Ermey's eyebrows and the poop-joke alien species, it's amazing, that it manages to stay on the wrong side of the "so bad it's good" line.
Rated 04 Oct 2016
46
42nd
A hilarious confusing mess. I love how shitty this movie is (pun intended).
Rated 30 Apr 2017
68
27th
The connection between the characters is great, the idea of 4 psychic friends is interesting, and even the general concept isn't too bad. But...well that's exactly it: aliens coming out of peoples butts! A wasted military subplot, Jason Lee's endless annoying lines, and acting so bad it makes high school plays look good, this is a far cry from a dream come true, unless of course you need something to make fun of.
Rated 09 Aug 2017
45
24th
Maybe it's a love for all this Stephen King, but I didn't think Dreamcatcher was terrible. Sloppy, long, and poorly written? Yes. But this became a kind of guilty pleasure for me from the beginning. Featuring some good acting from Freeman, Jane, and Lee in support, its just a kind of fun, mindless romp, even if it does suck.
Rated 28 Jan 2007
25
7th
dreadful
Rated 02 Mar 2007
68
16th
A very trademark Stephen King feeling film, however its extra terrestrial ending seems to take from the realism as well as the overal horror factor of the whole film.
Rated 18 Apr 2007
45
58th
So bad, its kinda good!
Rated 26 May 2007
55
48th
Stephen King is the man.
Rated 21 Jul 2007
9
4th
Absolutely dreadful. The only cool part, if I recall, was when those blood worms came out of that guy's butt.
Rated 04 Aug 2007
25
11th
Started so well but like a Spilberg movie, the aliens come in to it for no reason at all...
Rated 14 Aug 2007
65
41st
Stephen King's books just don't translate that good.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
39
11th
There's not much to say. It's a B-movie and has aliens.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
75
15th
I liked the novel as well, some good acting.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
70
32nd
Man the acting in this was good.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
69
24th
I found this book by Stephen King to be fascinating and I was excited to and rent the movie. Sadly, it was terrible. There was too much content to cover in one movie and everything was saturated into a cinematic mess. Some of the main actors are terrible, mainly Thomas Jane and Timothy Olyphant, I couldn't stand to watch all of it at once. I still like the story though.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
30
2nd
No, this was stupid.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
65
17th
Could and should have been better.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
20
3rd
This thing starts with a few creepy images, and then drives itself into the ground. The plot elements didn't match up, the drama faded away, great actor's performing powers were wasted, and the ending was pathetic and emotionally unintelligible.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
10
10th
bad
Rated 14 Aug 2007
0
1st
Its a shame you cant get your money back at the movies
Rated 14 Aug 2007
20
5th
not very good (doesnt follow the book ;( ) and the ending was awful. the mind thing was cool though.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
10
0th
Oh dear, the only dream that this film catches is one of unimaginable nightmares.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
20
6th
What were they thinking?
Rated 14 Aug 2007
23
13th
Having never read the book, I was a little perplexed as to why it might have been a best seller... I still have no clue. But I'm going to assume that the book was phenominally better than the movie. Why was Morgan Freeman in this movie, again?
Rated 14 Aug 2007
63
27th
Some entertaining moments flattened a little by a weak pissy ending
Rated 14 Aug 2007
45
31st
Book was better. Morgan Freeman as a bad guy?!?!? What were they thinking. Aliens designed very very poorly. Lots of blood and mistakes and fun.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
45
8th
Possibly this would be much better if I had read the book beforehand, but I hadn't. So this was average.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
68
35th
So bad, it's good.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
30
21st
starts out promising, and when the butt worms show up you aren't sure what to expect... then morgan freeman plays a bad guy and goes crazy and it goes to hell. to this day i still hate butt worms
Rated 14 Aug 2007
75
21st
Lots of intriuging elements that end up being too darn goopy to swallow. King machinations galore.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
85
30th
Good adaptation of the book, but...it's a book that is better in the theatre of the mind rather than the local cineplex.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
31
3rd
This is a film only for those who enjoy the most ridiculously offbeat of bad films, the kind that can only be enjoyed for how over-the-top the level of weirdness will go. In a low-budget, indie sci-fi flick that's fine, but in a film as commercial as this, the result is disastrous. It's an acid-trip...just a bad one.
Rated 22 Aug 2007
13
16th
Crappy
Rated 24 Aug 2007
30
9th
Wow, was this one ever a mistake. A prime example of the disasters that happen when you adapt a Stephen King novel.
Rated 16 Sep 2007
50
22nd
has some moments that work quite well....but a lot that don't
Rated 17 Sep 2007
45
3rd
I actually read the book behind this movie just to see if anyone would actually write a thing as silly as aliens popping out of someone's bottoms. It was most unfortunate to realize that the same thing actually exists in the book. The sad thing is that the movie is even worst than the book.
Rated 23 Dec 2007
45
12th
I just could not get into it...I laughed at it's stupidity.
Rated 04 Jan 2008
35
9th
I never read this book, and now that i have seen this film I probably never will.
Rated 21 Mar 2008
40
9th
Surprisingly, the book was unreadable. Not surprisingly, I'm sorry I bothered watching the movie.
Rated 30 Mar 2008
30
5th
A little like IT, if IT was bad and was about an alien invasion featuring shit weasels.
Rated 10 Apr 2008
30
14th
Others have said it, but it bears repeating: ASS ALIENS. Based on those two words alone, you should be able to tell whether you will love or hate this movie.
Rated 21 Apr 2008
30
25th
Stephen King is a hit or miss author to make movies on. unfortunately Dreamcatcher was a miss with an ending you would suspect from the likes of L. Ron Hubbard
Rated 09 Jun 2008
10
0th
This is so awful that it is actually pretty funny. If you treat it that way it might be good for some laughs but it is an absolute bomb as a scary movie
Rated 14 Jun 2008
65
37th
One of stephen kings better movies
Rated 21 Jun 2008
91
76th
Dreamcatcher follows the story of four friends and their "special" friend, Duddits, who is actually... not what he seems to be! This crosses from being a friendly group adventure to a horror film to a science fiction film and into a military drama all in one fell swoop. A grossly underappreciated movie, and one of my favorite Stephen King adaptations.
Rated 25 Jun 2008
10
4th
bad movie
Rated 16 Jul 2008
35
11th
A fantastically eerie first hour isn't nearly enough to save it from the bizarre, illogical wannabe-sci-fi rest of the film. It devolves quickly from the well-cultivated sense of dread it initially sets up to an exercise in ludicrousness. At times so shockingly bad that you half expect director Kasdan to jump out from behind your seat yelling "gotcha!"
Rated 26 Jul 2008
23
3rd
Can't help but laugh at the very premise of this movie. Couldn't take any of this seriously.
Rated 30 Jul 2008
20
5th
Thought this had a lot of potential, and it entertained me the first time, BUT, just doesn't hold up at all on subsequent viewings.
Rated 14 Sep 2008
65
10th
God, please, noooooo! What did they do to the story!?!?! :( Sadly, this only works as a book. As a film, it's just a disaster. It was painful to watch. The only redeeming quality was Jason Lee playing Beaver, my favorite character from the book.
Rated 23 Sep 2008
10
0th
rubbish never-understandable
Rated 23 Oct 2008
5
5th
Terrible movie, stay as far away from it as possible.
Rated 30 Oct 2008
60
35th
This adaption of a Stephen King novel is a mix of Stand By Me, It and Tommyknockers. It is a highly enloyable film but did not have enough in it to truly impress me. A large cast of at the time unknows who have since become successful. Some interesting ideas with sometimes worked but othertimes didn't. Not really a horror more of a sci-fi thriller
Rated 01 Nov 2008
33
10th
What could be great story about supernatural powers turns to be one of lamest alien invasion story ever. I mean... aliens from asses? That just not classy. Oh and another thing. In this movie there is rarely seen "more stories that movie can handle" effect. Because there is at least 3 screenplay that could be made from this, instead mixing all in one. Probably good in book, in movie, this is just confusing.
Rated 08 Nov 2008
85
85th
Thats good ! ı was in dream..
Rated 15 Nov 2008
30
31st
Almost decent film with an end that should have been left as a novel.
Rated 01 Jan 2009
70
58th
Damian Lewis shows he's a damn good actor in this film. The story was great, a huge potential, but the film wasn't as good as I expected. Wasn't bad either though. Really enjoyed it, the suspense sometimes.
Rated 06 Jan 2009
45
44th
Has one of the nastiest scenes I've ever seen in a movie. Not only is the scene horrifying, the actor they chose to have it happen to makes it all the more disgusting. Go see it...you know you want to.
Rated 25 Jan 2009
60
13th
Amusing
Rated 26 Mar 2009
77
15th
didn't quite "catch" my fancy.
Rated 23 Apr 2009
25
15th
The film does not begin bad, but gets ridiculous. Do not decide which genre is, if is drama, comedy, sci-fi. In all of them are unsuccessful.
Rated 28 Apr 2009
67
24th
It's not a very good movie but it still grosses the hell out of me.
Rated 11 May 2009
1
0th
From the shit weasels to the mentally challenge alien god, just terribly conceived from beginning to end.
Rated 12 Jun 2009
60
39th
Four childhood friends find a boy with special powers. Later in life they save the World. Quite good in a quirky sort of way.
Rated 28 Jul 2009
24
4th
OMG. It's so bad...seriously. What the hell?
Rated 01 Aug 2009
7
6th
Terrible film. It feels unbalanced and a potentially interesting idea is wasted by some sloppy editing and storytelling. A film with no direction or purpose. Just dreadful.
Rated 23 Oct 2009
30
15th
Surprisingly recognizable cast, beautiful nature shots in winter, same old by the numbers B horror.
Rated 20 Dec 2009
45
36th
Not king's best work by far
Rated 12 Mar 2010
90
53rd
I love Stephen King movies.
Rated 24 Apr 2010
72
24th
stephen king's writing style is pretty much impossible to pull of in a film
Rated 05 May 2010
55
13th
another bad stephen king shit
Rated 26 Aug 2010
24
16th
#00s#, story, (casting)
Rated 06 Sep 2010
43
10th
So they tried to make an ironic book serious? Duddits is a huge anticlimax, they couldn't even get the interesting Wahlberg.
Rated 25 Sep 2010
18
2nd
Just a crappy story really.
Rated 19 Oct 2010
20
41st
"As in King's derivative novel, the story is overstuffed with too many unnecessary (if occasionally cool) elements." - Nick Schager
Rated 25 Jan 2011
20
12th
Just saw this again recently, and was appalled. It got extra points for having the guy from human Target in it :-)

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