Gordon Bennett

Rating: 10/10 (27 March 2000)

Well well, there I was. I was excited, being a King fan of large proportions, and I was kinda.. well to be honest, I was seeing my first 18 film at the cinema, so I was happy to have got in, the sneaky thing that I am. And I wasn't disappointed. As different from The Shawshank Redemption as it needed to be, this film moved me to tears more than once and actually made me jump about a foot at one point. The characters were colourful and varied, and I could clearly see two completely different but equally hateful types of evil in the two 'baddies'. All performances shone, casting was spot on. Everything added up to make this film one of my favourites ever... and the length? Might as well have been one hour, the further I was drawn into the gently mixing stories, the shorter it seemed.