Product Description

Dreamcatcher Dolores Claiborne Stephen King's Cat's Eye Creepshow

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6805 in DVD
• Brand: WHV
• Released on: 2007-11-06
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: 1.20 pounds
• Running time: 479 minutes

Customer Reviews

A real five star bargain.
I'm liking these four-in-one packages Warner Bros. has been doing. And for such a price! With the amount Amazon is charging for this DVD set, you get each movie for under three bucks each. Not a bad deal at all.

I actually bought this for Creepshow and Cat's Eye, two movies that used to freak me out as a kid, but I loved nonetheless. The roach story in Creepshow still manages to make my skin crawl; the troll's scary factor in Cat's Eye has lost a little of it's impact over time, but the record player scene still makes me chuckle. Awesome movies, people. George Romero's most entertaining film outside of his Dead series (arguably) and Drew Barrymore being adorable. What's not to love? 80's genre classics.

I haven't watched Dolores Claiborne or Dreamcatcher yet, but I skimmed through them a bit for the purpose of this review. Thankfully, as advertised, all the movies in this collection are in anamorphic widescreen (as opposed to the last of these collections I bought, which featured Copycat in 4:3 full frame, despite what the case said). Each movie has the same special features as their single-disc counterparts. This keepcase collection contains two double-sided discs (one movie for each side).

Superb King quad-pack
There's no "extras" in this Stephen King flip-disc double pack beyond movie trailers. Widescreen transfers are of excellent quality.

All four titles are appealing, but for different reasons.

DOLORES CLAIBORNE is the most "normal" film here. It deals with a mother/daughter relationship and their past history, plus the mom's renewed trouble with a local sheriff who has been trying for about 20 years to see her convicted of murder.

Just saw CREEPSHOW for the first time and really liked it. Here, a father takes his pre-teen's horror comic book away and trashes it. The book flips open and a single panel from five different comics segues to live action, in other words, into five short stories. Best of the lot is "Tide," the one in the middle. King himself is the star of tale #2. After we see all five there's a final shock for the dad who foolishly threw his kid's book away.

CAT'S EYE is another anthology, one that follows a gray tom's adventures as he travels south, roughly along the East Coast. In North Carolina, the cat bonds with a very young Drew Barrymore, who can't convince her scoffing parents that there's a small monster hiding inside her bedroom wall.

DREAMCATCHER features a malignant version of the magic we see in THE GREEN MILE (1999), but it's really a very gross film about giant razor-toothed worms from outer space trying to conquer Earth via the water supply. A bloody stomach-turner, this one!


Parenthetical numbers preceding titles are 1 to 10 imdb viewer poll ratings.

(5.9) Cat's Eye (1985) - Drew Barrymore/James Woods/Alan King/Robert Hays/Candy Clark

(6.5) Creepshow (1982) - Hal Holbrook/Adrienne Barbeau/Fritz Weaver/Leslie Neilsen/Carrie Nye/E.G. Marshall/Ed Harris/Ted Danson/Stephen King

(7.2) Dolores Claiborne (1995) - Kathy Bates/Jennifer Jason Leigh/Judy Parfitt/Christopher Plummer/David Strathairn/Eric Bogosian/John C. Reilly

(5.3) Dreamcatcher (2003) - Morgan Freeman/Thomas Jane/Jason Lee/Tom Sizemore/Donnie Wahlberg

Great Collection!
This set gives you four movies on two flipside discs. All are in Widescreen.
Dolores Claiborne-Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh. Im starting with this one because as a King fan this movie has always disappointed me. If you have ever read this great novel(directed more towards the women audience) you will find it starts with Vera Donovan falling down the stairs and Dolores Standing over her with a rolling pin(as does the movie) and basically thats where the movie stops copying the novel it supposedly takes after. In the novel, Dolores is taken into the police station where she starts talking about her relationship with Vera. She starts from the beginning where she was a young woman who takes the job because her husband drinks and seldomly works. Vera is strict and wants things her way and Dolores is strong enough to put up with her. The movie completely omits the two other children Dolores has(both boys) and focuses on her daughter only. In the novel, Veras husband dies and her two children(also never mentioned in the movie) quit coming with her during the summer. Dolores is beaten several times by her husband and her daughter idolizes him. She notices her daughter slowly start to change(not looking clean, dressing in baggy cloths, quiet, not hanging around her dad anymore)and decides to take the ferry one day to have a talk with her. This scene does play out similarly in the movie. She goes to the bank to take out the money she has saved so she can leave. She finds Joe took it all out and redeposited it in a new acct. She cries to Vera, who suggests that Husband die Dolores. They have accidents and leave their wives widows with all of their money. This is where Dolores realizes that Vera killed her own husband. She goes home and buys Joe whiskey and makes him a sandwich, then mentions the money to anger him. She runs into the berry patch and jumps over the well, where he falls into it. He does not die right away(as in the movie). She hears him crying all night long...Doloreeeessssss. Heeellppp mmeeee. It Huuurtss.....finally she goes to check on him and he has almost crawled out. She takes a piece of wood and hits him in the face(knocking out his dentures)then he finally falls to his death. Her daughter suspects her mom of killing her dad and they are never close again. All her children move away and she moves in with Vera to take care of her. HER DAUGHTER DOES NOT COME BACK IN THE NOVEL!!!! I say this because the movie brought her back and made up its own story of Dolores and her daughter....this is not how the book is at all!! If the screen writer had stayed to the novel(it plays out like a movie) this movie would be up there with the Shawshank Redemption! Too bad he didnt write the screen play for this novel! Then in the novel, Dolores cares for Vera throughout the years, battling Veras horrible visions of Dust Bunnies, Dolores, They are EVERYWHERE! Bedpans,hysterics, vacuuming the rug just so(Vera listens to make sure) also combatting with Vera who in her elderly years enjoys pooping in her bed and throwing it around the room while Dolores is vacuuming....Then one day Vera has one of her few good days, and realizes she doesnt want to live like this anymore and throws herself down the stairs(like in the movie). Dolores is told she inherits Veras fortune, to which she asks "Why me? She has two kids!" Then she finds that Veras kids died way back when they were teenagers in a sportscar the Vera had boughten them. Vera never aknowledged it, and lived as if her kids had moved away and might come to "visit" her. There is no anomisity between Dolores and the fictional version of the sheriff, as in the movie. If you read this book(or have read it) and absolutely LOVE it, You will absolutely HATE this movie.
Dreamcatcher was a bad novel and a bad movie(cant believe Morgan Freeman did this one)
Cats Eye is a great movie. It is a collection of short stories(all are in novella collections except the last with Drew Barrymore) and the screenplay is by Stephen King himself.
Creepshow is also a good collection of short stories and is very enjoyable. My favorite story is the one with Ted Danson. Overall, if you like at least two of these movies, this collection is a great buy! I know I was long-winded about Dolores Claiborne,but they had Kathy Bates..why did they completly RUIN this potentially great movie??? I wish someone would redo this one and recast Kathy Bates!!!!Where IS Frank Darabont on this one?????