![]() ![]() Like the book, its characters are one of the weak spots, unusually for a King story. ![]() The film, in contrast, feels more like fits and starts as Castle Rock goes into meltdown. In the book, it quite literally explodes into life and becomes unrelentingly more chaotic. It also doesn’t quite the escalation of carnage right. That repetitiveness is carried over once you’ve seen one townsperson turned by an object bought from Gaunt, you’ve literally seen them all, and little is done to add a new perspective to the sequence of events. This leaves the film with something of a tricky proposition, which it sadly fails to navigate all that well. All told, it’s not a great book the nature of King’s story means that it’s quite repetitive and there aren’t a whole lot of characters to root for. It is, however, one of the first King books that I read as a young ‘un and as such, I have a soft spot for it, despite its considerable flaws. Reviews were not kind to the first book that he wrote after his rehabilitation. It contains his truly go for broke endings that work better than in some of his others (not for Castle Rock or its residents, mind). A satire on greed culture, small town politics, and mob mentalities, Needful Things is one of Stephen King’s more cynical works with a streak of dark humour a mile wide. ![]()
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