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Community Thoughts:  Posted By: Gav Worlledge - February 24th, 2010 11:40:23 am EST The Mangler - Short story from Night Shift is excellent! This kinda tale I think works because it is very basic and straight to the action. As a movie, I thought the first 20 minutes were great. The first death is a blast and captured exactly what I felt reading the story. Sadly after that all the scenes and subplots away from the actual Mangler just didn't work for me at all. The detective investigating the case is just so irritating and half the time I had to put subtitles on b'cos I just couldn't understand what he was mumbling on about. Robert England did bring a slight bit of menace to his character of the factory owner but I feel was let down to a truly bad script. This story would have worked much better as a short movie (creepshow style) instead of a full length feature. I feel exactly the same about Graveyard Shift too. Although that was slightly better than The Mangler, it would have worked better as a short movie. Posted By: Nat - January 5th, 2009 10:06:57 pm EST Having seen the film, I'd like to read the short story. King's originals are nearly always superior to the adaptations - particularly when King is not involved directly with the screenplay. Posted By: Steve - October 23rd, 2008 4:48:30 pm EDT For me, this is one of the few movies they have made that actually outshines the story itself. The actors were all fantastic, the stretched out storyline was great. The only other movie that comes to mind that was equally as good from Night Shift was The Graveyard Shift, which I think was perfect. |
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