5/28/2023 0 Comments Needful things leland gaunt![]() ![]() The central figures of Alan Pangborn and his girlfriend Polly Chambers (Bonnie Bedelia), who suffers from crippling arthritis in her hands, remain the only real sympathetic figures alongside Netty (Amanda Plummer). 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. ![]()
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