Desperation (film)
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| German title | Desperation |
| Original title | Stephen King's Desperation |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 131 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Mick Garris |
| script | Stephen King |
| production | Kelly Van Horn |
| music | Nicholas Pike |
| camera | Christian Sebaldt |
| cut | Patrick McMahon |
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Desperation (orig. Stephen King's Desperation ) is an American horror film from 2006 and is based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King .
action
The planned family vacation to Lake Tahoe turns into a real horror trip for the Carver family when they meet the insane Deputy Collie Entragian on their route through the Nevada desert . Under a pretext, he lures her to his city, Desperation, where he immediately puts the family in the community prison and pushes the Carvers' little daughter down the stairs, whereupon she dies.
Gradually it turns out that the crazy police officer has killed almost every inhabitant of the city and that he apparently has psychic powers that allow him to communicate with animals and control them.
Soon Entragian brought more victims into his power. Among other things, a married couple whom he arrested on an excuse. Upon arriving at the city prison , he immediately kills the husband. He puts the woman, Mary, in a cell after she again tried in vain to shoot the deputy. There are other prisoners in the cell.
David, the son of the Carver family, is able to contact his dead sister, who acts as a kind of mouthpiece for God. She helps him - and other victims as well - in a number of situations during the course of the film. Among other things, she gives a bar of soap to David, who is about twelve years old . David rubs himself in with it and manages to force his way through the cell bars while the deputy takes his mother to an old mine. David frees the other inmates and they flee to an old theater in the city.
The mine is evidently the key to all evil. A long time ago, Chinese were forced to work in the old mine. You can see in an old film that David thinks that the Chinese should be hanged after a riot. This does not happen, however, since the Chinese are ruled by a being, the Tak, which is located in the mine and chooses human bodies as host. When these bodies slowly disintegrate due to death, Tak passes over to other living beings. So Mrs. Carver also becomes a victim of Tak after she leaves the deputy's body. After Mrs. Carver's body is also too weak, Tak tries to pass on to Mary. However, Tak does not succeed in this and he passes into the body of a bird. Mary manages to escape back to the group. The group decides to go to the old mine and lock the mine entrance. The bird owned by Tak attacks David's father here and kills him.
John Edward Marinville, a writer who is also in the group and who had already met Tak unconsciously during the Vietnam War , sends the rest of the group away to blow up the entrance on their own. He manages to blow up the entrance and thus destroy the basis for Tak. In doing so, he lets his own life. In the end, only Mary, David, Steve Ames (John Edward's assistant) and Cynthia Smith, a hitchhiker, survive. The four drive away in Steve's van. In her abandoned car, Mary finds a book with farewell greetings from John Edward and the little girl Pie. This ends the film.
criticism
The lexicon of international films judged that the film was a production "with ambitious camera work, but which would soon be drowned out by uninspired babbling dialogues about metaphysical powers and human fate". It is a "crude mixture of phrase-like God and group invocation".
Awards
The film was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2006 for production design and sound editing . In addition, the film received the 2007 Excellence in Production Design Award from the Art Directors Guild.
DVD
In 2007 the Warner Bros. film was also released on DVD in Germany.
Trivia
Ron Perlman played a cop in the 1992 film Sleepwalker , also a Stephen King book adaptation.
Web links
- Desperation in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Desperation at rotten tomatoes (English)
- Collected newspaper reviews on Desperation on Metacritic.com (English)
- Desperation in the German dubbing files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Desperation. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .