in my bottom ten list of movies I've ever seen

Rating: 2/10 (30 March 2008)

Its pretty hard to butcher a Steven king story, but apparently someone found a way to do it. First of all, there is no suspense since they show the creature with the tentacles in the first 30 minutes of the movie, so you know what the thing looks like. Second of all there was never a real sense of horror since you basically know what the people are going up against, hell, they even tell you when they're going somewhere dangerous, nothing ever jumps out at you or scares you, which in my opinion is a key element in a horror film. And lastly, they linked this movie to some military mishap, but they never tell you exactly what happens, it was just awful how they planned it. What disappointed me was that this film could have been good if it had just had some suspense to it, and some decent acting. The end was the only reason that i gave this thing 2 stars, it was not a terrible ending, but the first 1 hour and 55 minutes is not worth the ending. Don't see this movie purely because you are a Steven king fan...that is why i rented it, and it let me down.