Dreamcatcher

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Dreamcatcher

R

2003

2h 11m

Horror

Sci-Fi

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"Dreamcatcher" 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 in which something much more ominous moves. Challenged to stop an alien force, the friends must first prevent the slaughter of innocent civilians by a military vigilante, then overcome a threat to the bond between them.

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Critics Consensus

An incoherent and overly long creature feature.

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Scott Tobias

AV Club

12/10/2018

Perhaps due to the talent of everyone involved, Dreamcatcher moves with an oddly exhilarating awfulness that sets it apart from more run-of-the-mill horror films, which lack the imagination and budget to be so thoroughly misconceived.

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Christy Lemire

Associated Press

12/10/2018

Dreamcatcher is unspeakably bad -- and shockingly so -- considering that it's an adaptation of a Stephen King novel, from the director of The Big Chill (Lawrence Kasdan) and the writer of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (William Goldman).

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Jack Mathews

New York Daily News

12/07/2018

Dreamcatcher is pretty much a special-effects movie, with uneven results.

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Micheal Compton

Bowling Green Daily News

11/15/2019

F

If this is what Stephen King movies have disintegrated into, then it's time to pull the plug.

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Debbie Lynn Elias

Behind The Lens

11/07/2019

Obviously, the hole in Dreamcatcher was a little too small thus allowing a lot of the bad aspects of the film to stick in the web along with the good.

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Alberto Abuín

Espinof

08/29/2019

Not only the excess of visual effects removes part of the film's quality, but also the plot inconsistencies occur non-stop. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Alec B

6d

You do kind of have to admire the attempt to turn this infamous King novel into a movie. Honestly I think Kasdan and Goldman should have largely ignored the book's structure and found a different path through this concept. If the movie is worth remembering for anything (besides the liberal use of Star Wars Wipes!) its for the strange casting swap with Morgan Freeman as the insane military leader and Tom Sizemore as the soldier convinced to do the right thing.

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Stephen C

@bob25009 Nov 23

Success in 02 hours, 13 minutes, and 43 seconds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated R for Language, Gore and Violence!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The USA grossed over $33,700,000.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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D P

Nov 3

I just did not care for this.

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Kevin B

Oct 31

Just a great film. Easy storyline. Well worth watching

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Hughe J

@Hughe Oct 3

Dreamcatcher was released in 2003 and is based on a novel of the same name written by Stephen King. It has a great cast starring Morgan Freeman, Thomas Jane, Jason Lee, Damian Lewis, and Timothy Olyphant. It's a story of friends who while hunting in the woods come across people that are infected by alien parasites. The military arrives to contain the outbreak but an alien called Mr. Gray takes over the mind of one of the party so that he can infect the world's water supply. The group must band together with an old friend from their childhood, whom they share a telepathic link with, to stop the aliens. I read the book before I saw this in the theatre and for the most part it stayed true to the source material but the ending, and the origin of their childhood friend, were changed. The cast is good, the CGI is fine, and the new ending was acceptable. It was a bit gross, and the movie dragged on at times, but overall it wasn't as bad as the reviews claimed. If you like Stephen King then you'll probably like this movie.

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Sep 24

I thought this was a great scifi horror. Solid acting, well-paced storytelling, and CGI that still looks good. I don't understand the hate it gets.

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"Dreamcatcher" 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 in which something much more ominous moves. Challenged to stop an alien force, the friends must first prevent the slaughter of innocent civilians by a military vigilante, then overcome a threat to the bond between them.

Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Producer: Lawrence Kasdan, Charles Okun, Bruce Berman
Screenwriter: Stephen King, William Goldman, Lawrence Kasdan
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Co: Castle Rock Entertainment
Rating: R (Language|Gore|Violence)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 21, 2003, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 30, 2010
Box Office (Gross USA): $33.7M
Runtime: 2h 11m
Sound Mix: Dolby SR, DTS, Dolby Stereo, Surround, SDDS, Dolby A, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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