The best-selling author who spent a small fortune to get his name removed from the credits of Hideaway a few years ago enjoyed seeing his 1983 novel Phantoms made into a movie.
Phantoms is the tale of an entity that mostly destroys a Colorado town.
A brilliant professor, played by Peter O'Toole, saves the day, helping uncover the creature's weakness. Koontz nearly quit on Hollywood after Hideaway became a movie so gruesome and unsuccessful he wanted his name off it. But Phantoms , which opens Friday, was filmed under his supervision. Koontz wrote the screenplay and was an executive producer.