This horrendous movie, starring James Caan as the oh-so-brilliant writer whose name is not Stephen King in this, and Kathy Bates as the crazed fan who worships him, is so utterly ludicrous it's ridiculous it has a high rating let alone did not completely bomb at the box office.
Everything in this cartoon is done over-the-top; there is no tension - Rob Reiner is a hack, his direction is terrible, I can only imagine what a good or great director could have maybe brought to the story; this does not have the suspense or tension in an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, let alone one of his movies. Just watch the movie Psycho about how a thriller should be done, and then watch this, and see if there doesn't seem to be something wrong with this movie.
After keeping him captive, and it being done in such a manner that one cannot even take it too seriously, the sheriff comes and almost saves him, but alas, this psycho-nurse woman, who was released previously from prison on WHAT grounds? - shoots him, the sheriff that is, and stands there in such a position, this military type pose, that it's an absolute joke to see.
And then the sheriff is forgotten about! Plus, she can't be killed - she keeps being alive after events, things Caan's character did to her, would normally have killed her with, yet it's a total cartoon, and it takes a good while to kill her; it is never told how he ever was found and freed, instead of dying there.
This movie is not frightening, it is not scary, it has no suspense, it has a way about it that makes it hard to take very seriously.
I had seen it once before many years ago and did not remember it being so awful.
Absolutely HORRIBLE movie. Don't believe the hype.
A waste of time, pure garbage.
Everything in this cartoon is done over-the-top; there is no tension - Rob Reiner is a hack, his direction is terrible, I can only imagine what a good or great director could have maybe brought to the story; this does not have the suspense or tension in an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, let alone one of his movies. Just watch the movie Psycho about how a thriller should be done, and then watch this, and see if there doesn't seem to be something wrong with this movie.
After keeping him captive, and it being done in such a manner that one cannot even take it too seriously, the sheriff comes and almost saves him, but alas, this psycho-nurse woman, who was released previously from prison on WHAT grounds? - shoots him, the sheriff that is, and stands there in such a position, this military type pose, that it's an absolute joke to see.
And then the sheriff is forgotten about! Plus, she can't be killed - she keeps being alive after events, things Caan's character did to her, would normally have killed her with, yet it's a total cartoon, and it takes a good while to kill her; it is never told how he ever was found and freed, instead of dying there.
This movie is not frightening, it is not scary, it has no suspense, it has a way about it that makes it hard to take very seriously.
I had seen it once before many years ago and did not remember it being so awful.
Absolutely HORRIBLE movie. Don't believe the hype.
A waste of time, pure garbage.