A bit of a disapointment.

Rating: 5/10 (2 March 2020)

It surely is an entertaining and involving movie, but mainly thanks to the brilliant story of Stephen King, you just want to watch untill the end to see how they will beat the monster. But for this you have to put up with on the one hand flimsy and very unsatisfying background-stories of the adult group of friends (while these are pivotal to the story and the original book spends hundreds of pages on it!) and on the other hand with truckloads of CGI and special effects: scene after scene after scene is chock-full of monsters, creatures, jump-scares, pours of blood, bodyparts, etc. It's really a total overkill, it quickly looses all intended scary effect and by the end you're dead tired of it. They followed the book reasonably well, although in the end the surprisingly simple way with which the monster was annihilated (more or less by convincing him that he wasn't scary at all!) is definitely not what I remember from Kings novel. Also the primaeval, pre-worldly origin of the monster and it's intentions here hardly got any attention, as a result of which in the end his presence stayed somehow a mystery.