Dreamcatcher
You may wonder why the majority of films based on the works of Stephen King fail. Well, maybe because of the internal conflict in the novels. It is not difficult to write about such problems but it is difficult to film it. And mostly internal conflict is metaphorical and spoken dialogues are in minds of the characters. That is why it is difficult to show such state of the hero in the film.
Dreamcatcher belongs to these works and contains the internal conflict of the main characters. This novel is like Gerald´s Game and Rose Madder with interesting internal conflicts and the characters reaction to it.
In comparison with other writers of horror Dreamcatcher belongs to another story of alien invasion. But four friends have brought something cerebral to the story.
Joe, Henry, Pete and Gary meet each other in their old place, in the woods of Maine, and understand that excursion will be not like the others. These four men battle more than just some childhood memories. They are used as weapons in the alien invasion and it turns onto the child´s play.
The internal conflict is successfully taken by King in the world and human psyche uses it and the main characters use their mind to win the alien invaders. King describes the mind as a battlefield and then he turns the concept of invasion into the successful play for the readers.
The readers may catch a likeness of Dreamcatcher with the novel It. But in comparison with that novel new topics of childhood memories, growing up and male bonding can be found in Dreamcatcher.
