OK, I'm a serious King fan and can forgive some otherwise pitiful movies just because they were based on his works. However, there are a series of horrid big screen conversions that just butcher King's work; Pet Semetary and Maximum Overdrive are good examples. As bad as the big screen is to King, TV is worse. The conversion of IT was tolerable, due to Curry's Pennywise, but other than that most of the TV productions of King's works aren't worth watching. Saying all of that, RIDING THE BULLET was far worse than any of the previous TV slaughterhouse fare. The acting was subpar, the screenplay was weak and predictable, and it was nearly as scary as a bad dream about rabid rubber duckies devouring your bath soap. To make the whole matter worse, this film was shown on USA Network which promptly squelched out every Nth word in the movie because of language. (Just another bad reaction to the FCC's over reactions) The amount of missing dialogue was a good chunk of the movie. Normally bleeping or editing for language isn't that noticeable but on this show it was very distracting. DVD renter won't have to deal with that. If I could this movie a Zero rating I would. If you like King, read a book.
Review of Riding the Bullet
