Another King book is given the straight to streaming treatment.
This film is fine that’s about all I can say about it. It is one of those sort of films that doesn’t stick with you after and that you only half remember watching.
It was an odd choice to give a lot of the characters from the book smaller roles in order to give a story to a new character, clearly they didn’t care much about it being a faithful adaption. I don’t really know why we need the story of a little boy, Jordan Preston Carter, who decides he is going to go and wipe out all the vampires on his own. Perhaps they thought it would get kids to watch.
There are some good scares early on but then it just becomes silly, the vampires are wiping out adults left and right yet this little boy manages to just easily destroy many of them single handedly. This takes away from any sense of fear you might have as you just go ‘oh they were clearly really easy to beat then’. It also makes the adult characters look weak and stupid.
Overall, a serviceable if weak adaption.
2.5/5
Pros.
It is watchable
It has some good moments
It pays some faith to the book
Cons.
It makes bad changes to the book as well
It focuses too much on a random kid
It makes the vampires seem weak
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