Heston sketches the film’s morality lessons in traditionally Biblical good vs. Considering that one of the lessons that the movie beats its audience over the head with is the futility of trying to recapture the past-the danger of nostalgia, if you will-my nostalgia for the type of filmmaking the movie represents made this viewing an oddly meta experience. Richter) hammers away at the same over-the-top note for too much of the film, it did make me nostalgic for the kinds of surface pleasures that mid-budget studio genre movies of the time contained.
Heston (working from a surprisingly straightforward adaptation by the enigmatic W.D. While the ham-fisted approach by director Fraser C. That lack of subtlety is forgivable to a point since the Stephen King novel is also far from understated.
Note: This piece is in reference to the 1993 theatrical cut of NEEDFUL THINGS, not the three hours-plus extended version that appeared on cable as a miniseries beginning in 1996.
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