Why Dreamcatcher Is The Most Underrated Stephen King Adaptation

Why Dreamcatcher Is The Most Underrated Stephen King Adaptation

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Dreamcatcher is the most underrated Stephen King adaptation, and is often excluded in discussions about the horror master’s book-to-screen credits.

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Why Dreamcatcher Is The Most Underrated Stephen King Adaptation

Dreamcatcher is the most underrated adaptation of a Stephen King novel, often left out of discussions about the horror master’s book-to-screen credits. The movie tanked at the box office in 2003, and its sci-fi aspects do get somewhat out of hand, but the plot stays steadfast to the 2001 novel, making it an extremely solid adaptation.

Dreamcatcher has an impressive cast that includes Jason Lee, Damian Lewis, Timothy Olyphant, Donnie Wahlberg, and Morgan Freeman and, to boot, it was written by William Goldman, who wrote the screenplays for All The President’s Men and The Princess Bride, among others.

Dreamcatcher’s sci-fi aspects do become ridiculous, with the four friends Henry (Thomas Jane), Jonesy (Damian Lewis), Pete (Timothy Olyphant), and Beaver (Jason Lee) encountering an invasion of parasitic aliens during their annual hunting trip in Maine, near Derry. At one point, Beaver traps an alien creature in the toilet. At another, Jonesy is possessed by a large alien called Mr. Gray. Later, the military leads an air-strike over a forest where the aliens’ UFO has landed. While the plot often seems to be making itself up as it goes along, it does indeed adhere to its source material.

Why Dreamcatcher Is The Most Underrated Stephen King Adaptation

The movie version of Dreamcatcher also succeeds in portraying the book’s strong recurring themes: childhood friendships lasting a lifetime, standing up to fears, and overcoming bullies. These themes are found across King’s bibliography, most notably in It and Stand By Me. In Dreamcatcher, Henry, Jonesy, Pete, and Beaver are four grown men who have remained friends since they were kids; the audience is privy to flashbacks of them as children, when they gained a telepathic connection. Viewers see the four protagonists standing up to bullies; as kids, they defend Duddits, a boy with disabilities who, as an adult (Donnie Wahlberg), is revealed to be of an alien race, and the one who gifted the boys with their telepathy.

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Later, as adults, they band together to overcome Colonel Abraham Curtis (Morgan Freeman), who attempts to kill anyone who was quarantined after being exposed to the aliens. Dreamcatcher also sticks to the book’s portrayal of the four protagonists’ character growth. Henry, the natural leader of the group, kills Mr. Gray’s worm and saves Jonesy who, after Mr. Gray exits his body, steps on the final bit of alien larva before it can contaminate a reservoir. The weaker members of the group aren’t left standing; Pete is bitten in half when he refuses to succumb to Mr. Gray, and Beaver is killed when he succumbs to his OCD, allowing a trapped creature to break out and kill him as he reaches for a toothpick.

While slight changes were made to the story’s ending, Dreamcatcher overall keeps with the book much more closely than other Stephen King movies do. It respects the twisting plot, dark tone, and the oddities of each character, making it an incredibly underrated adaptation of the author’s many books.

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