In this undistinguished Stephen King horror
adaptation, the good residents of Tarker's Mill
are dense enough to ignore or explain away a
series of violent deaths until a little boy is
torn to pieces while flying his kite after dark.
At that point, the men gang up and go into the
fog-shrouded woods to hunt down whatever slasher
is out there. The most they achieve is the
sighting of one hairy arm and a few more
sacrificial victims. But life goes on, and when
the summer fireworks show is cancelled because
people have deduced it might be fatal to stay
out after dark, the Coslaw family's invalid,
wheelchair-bound son Marty goes coasting off to
the bridge to shoot his own fireworks. Needless
to say, the hairy killer beast that is certain
to be lurking there gets shot in the eyeball by
one of Marty's rockets and is now an unhappy
hairy killer beast. Even when a respected town
biggie starts wearing an eyepatch, no one really
takes notice. They must not watch many horror
films.
Directed by: Daniel
Attias
Written by: Stephen
King
Produced by: Martha
Schumacher
Original music by:
Jay Chattaway
Cast:
Gary Busey .... Uncle
Red
Everett McGill .... Reverend Lowe
Corey Haim .... Marty Coslaw
Megan Follows .... Jane Coslaw
Robin Groves .... Nan Coslaw
Leon Russom .... Bob Coslaw
Terry O'Quinn .... Sheriff Joe Haller
Bill Smitrovich .... Andy Fairton
Joe Wright (I) .... Brady Kincaid
Kent Broadhurst .... Herb Kincaid
Heather Simmons .... Tammy Sturmfuller
James A. Baffico .... Milt Sturmfuller
Rebecca Fleming .... Mrs. Sturmfuller
Lawrence Tierney .... Owen Knopfler
William Newman .... Virgil Cuts
Sam Stoneburner .... Mayor O'Banion
Lonnie Moore .... Billy McLaren
Rick Pasotto .... Aspinall
Cassidy Eckert .... Girl
Wendy Walker .... Stella Randolph
Michael Lague .... Stella's Boyfriend
Myra Mailloux .... Stella's Mother
William Brown .... Bobby Robertson (as W.H.
Brown)
Herb Harton .... Elmer Zinneman
David Hart .... Pete Sylvester
Graham Smith .... Porter Zinneman
Paul Butler .... Edgar Rounds
Crystal Field .... Maggie Andrews
Julius LeFlore .... Smokey
Roxanne Aalam .... Uncle Red's Girl
Pearl Jones .... Mrs. Thayer
Steven White .... Outfielder
Conrad McLaren .... Mac
Tovah Feldshuh .... Older Jane (voice)
James Gammon .... Arnie Westrum
