Stephen King's Riding The Bullet
The Dead Travel Fast
Alan embarks on a 100-mile hitchhike to see his mother in the hospital. Along the way he must confront his many demons - both living and dead -and in the end make the ultimate choice that will mean life or death for him and his mother!
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Can't go Wrong with Stephen KIng! - LoriOntario
I really enjoyed this movie. It was about a college student who hitchhikes to his sick mother’s bedside in 1969. He has a really strange trip.
The only negative thing that I have to say about this movie is that the scenes jump around between the present, the past and his conscience.
It is an unusual movie, but enjoyable if you are a Stephen King fan.Bad directing crashes a spooky road movie. - mlpvolt
"Ride the Bullet" took a bullet at the box office and at the hands of the critics; watch and you'll soon see why. To understand why, compare this King adaptation by Garris with another: the far superior "The Mist" (also a King novella) directed by Frank Darabont. The loopy directing is a shame though - since the original story has more than enough depth and originality to carry 90 minutes. The plot follows the transformation of a morbidly obsessed teenager who when faced with death finds it not so attractive. The vehicle for his transformation, (literally speaking) is a series of rides with very strange strangers while hitchhiking to from college to visit is Mother who has suffered a stroke and is in the hospital. Better direction (and Garris has certainly done better) would have built up the lead character Alan (Johnathan Jackson) more, worked on the relationships with his girlfriend (the very talented Erika Christensen) and his mother (Barbara Hershey was as good as it was possible to be under the circumstances). Doing so would have enabled the viewer to develop some empathy for the characters. As it turned out the movie descends quickly into a ridiculous series of freaky hallucinations, flashbacks, psych-outs and red-herrings (you can't say plot twists cause they don't connect). The director, Garris who throws in every silly directors trick and cliche in the book into this one, and at least keeps it on pace, which might be enough for some folks to forget the utter lack of cinematic craft and call this "fun". By contrast, in Darabond's "Mist" he all but left the monsters out of the movie and focused on the humans instead, and delivered a grippingly suspenseful film, not drippingly nonsensical.Underrated King Adaptation - Ash31
One of the better horror film's I've seen lately based on the works of Stephen King. It's got some nice moody atmosphere and good character development. On the downside The flash backs tend to get a bit tedious towards the end but over overall a recommended genre film.
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Can't go Wrong with Stephen KIng! - LoriOntario
I really enjoyed this movie. It was about a college student who hitchhikes to his sick mother’s bedside in 1969. He has a really strange trip.
The only negative thing that I have to say about this movie is that the scenes jump around between the ...Bad directing crashes a spooky road movie. - mlpvolt
"Ride the Bullet" took a bullet at the box office and at the hands of the critics; watch and you'll soon see why. To understand why, compare this King adaptation by Garris with another: the far superior "The Mist" (also a King novella) directed by Frank Darabont. ...Underrated King Adaptation - Ash31
One of the better horror film's I've seen lately based on the works of Stephen King. It's got some nice moody atmosphere and good character development. On the downside The flash backs tend to get a bit tedious towards the end but over overall a recommended ...