Strange even for Stephen King

Rating: Null/10 (17 October 2007)

This was just a strange, strange movie. Beginning to end, I just kept shaking my head with a puzzled type look on my face. I believe Spacek has the perfect face for the role to look just innocent enough but at the same time evil. I found her character more irritating than anything else, which is why I rated the movie a little lower than normal. And my god, the mother?! Who wouldn't want to strangle her. I understand she was meant to be very out of the ordinary but her character was so over the top, I wanted to reach into the screen and strangle her myself. I guess it's a decent movie for its time and I can see why it may be considered by some a "classic", but just too many flaws for me to overlook, thus the 5/10 rating.