Well you have to admit, this was a creepy story, even for Mr. King. Having one of your main protagonists turn out to be a three year old, knife wielding murderer is somewhat beyond the pale. But King wrote the screenplay based on his own novel, so I'm thinking it held pretty close to the original story. And it was pretty cool to see him show up as the Minister at the cemetery when Gage was buried, that doesn't happen too often.
I don't think I've ever seen Fred Gwynne outside of his TV work, so having him here as the Creed's next door neighbor was a nice touch. It turns out that Dale Midkiff and Denise Crosby portraying the Creeds are also primarily TV actors, which explains why I haven't caught them in any prior work. They were OK here but their performances didn't really have a stand out quality.
Some of the things that got to me didn't really have an impact on the story, but I thought I'd mention them. What's with that odd portrait in the Goldman's living room showing the kid dressed in green with the whip in his hand? That was pretty bizarre. And who names a cat 'Church'? For his trouble, Church didn't even get a screen credit, I really wanted to know who played the part.
But you know what might have been the most bizarre thing about the picture? How about ghost sister Zelda with the spinal meningitis - the role was actually played by a man!!!
I don't think I've ever seen Fred Gwynne outside of his TV work, so having him here as the Creed's next door neighbor was a nice touch. It turns out that Dale Midkiff and Denise Crosby portraying the Creeds are also primarily TV actors, which explains why I haven't caught them in any prior work. They were OK here but their performances didn't really have a stand out quality.
Some of the things that got to me didn't really have an impact on the story, but I thought I'd mention them. What's with that odd portrait in the Goldman's living room showing the kid dressed in green with the whip in his hand? That was pretty bizarre. And who names a cat 'Church'? For his trouble, Church didn't even get a screen credit, I really wanted to know who played the part.
But you know what might have been the most bizarre thing about the picture? How about ghost sister Zelda with the spinal meningitis - the role was actually played by a man!!!