Riding the Bullet

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Movie
German title Riding the Bullet
Original title Riding the Bullet
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2004
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Mick Garris
script Mick Garris
production Mick Garris
music Nicholas Pike
camera Robert C. New
cut Marshall Harvey
occupation

Riding the Bullet is an American horror film from 2004 based on the story Rollercoaster (English. Riding The Bullet ) from the short story collection In the Cabinet of Death by Stephen King . Mick Garris directed, wrote the script and produced the film.

action

Alan Parker, a 21-year-old student, tried suicide on Halloween 1969 and was saved by doctors. After he is released from the hospital, his girlfriend abandons him. Alan is constantly haunted by visions of death. He learns that his mother is near death after a stroke and, instead of going to the John Lennon concert in Toronto with his friends, decides to hitchhike to his mother's home to visit her in the hospital.

When he gets into George Staub's car, Alan's trip to hell begins. George is racing like crazy, shows no consideration and seems to know everything about Alan. It turns out that George is already dead. He leads Alan back to his memories and his childhood. The focus is on “The Bullet”, a roller coaster that Alan never dared to ride.

Alan finally has to make the hardest possible decision of his life. George says he's going to take someone with him to death. It is up to Alan whether this will be his mother or himself. Alan struggles with himself for a long time and ultimately decides for his life and thus the death of his mother. When Alan arrives at the hospital, he is told that his mother is on the mend. In fact, she recovers from the stroke, is discharged from the hospital, and spends three more years with her son before she dies.

background

The film was shot in Calgary and Vancouver , Canada . Filming began on November 11, 2003. The budget for the film was an estimated five million US dollars . On October 15, 2004 it celebrated its premiere in the USA. On the opening weekend, he grossed around $ 100,000 in the United States. In Europe, the film was shown in cinemas for the first time in Portugal on February 3, 2005 , while it was released as a direct-to-video production on DVD in most other European countries .

The short story on which the film is based caused a sensation in 2000 because Stephen King made it available for download in advance on the Internet as a free e-book . More than 700,000 internet users took up this offer. In retrospect, however, King complained in the preface to the collection of short stories in the Cabinet of Death that most readers were only interested in the way it was published and not in the story itself.

In Stephen King's short story, George Staub drives a Ford Mustang . In homage to Stephen King's work Christine , which tells of a student's love and dependency on his car, a red painted 1958 Plymouth Fury with a white top, the Ford Mustang was replaced by a 1960 Plymouth Fury with an identical paint job.

In the film, Alan's mother tells her son that his father was run over by a car while he was on his way to a gas station with his spare can. In fact, on June 19, 1999 , Stephen King was hit and nearly killed by a vehicle while walking down Route 5 in Lowell , Maine .

criticism

The lexicon of international films judged that the film's “negligent design” was “outweighed by decent acting and good timing”.

Awards

Jonathan Jackson received a 2005 Saturn Award nomination for Best Young Actor.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Locations according to the Internet Movie Database
  2. ↑ a b c Budget and box office results according to the Internet Movie Database
  3. ↑ a b Start dates according to the Internet Movie Database
  4. ↑ a b c Background information according to the Internet Movie Database
  5. ^ Riding the Bullet. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ↑ Nominations and awards according to the Internet Movie Database
Films and TV series based on works by Stephen King are based
Movies

Carrie - Des Satan's Youngest Daughter (1976) • Burning Must Salem (1979) • Shining (1980) • Cujo (1983) • Dead Zone (1983) • Christine (1983) • Children of Wrath (1984) • The Fire Devil (1984) • Devil's Gift (1984) • Werewolf from Tarker Mills (1985) • Cat's Eye (1985) • Stand by Me - The Secret of a Summer (1986) • Rhea M - It Started Without Warning (1986) • Running Man (1987) • Stuffed Animal Cemetery (1989) • Tales from the Shadow World (1990) • Night Shift (1990) • Misery (1990) • Stephen King's It (1990) • Sometimes They Come Back (1991) • Stuffed Animal Cemetery II ( 1992) • Children of Wrath 2 - Deadly Harvest (1992) • The Lawnmower Man (1992) • Sleepwalker (1992) • Tommyknockers (1993) • Stephen Kings Stark (1993) • In a Small Town (1993) • The Condemned (1994) • Stephen King's The Stand (1994) • Children of Wrath 3 - The Chicago Massacre (1995) • The Langoliers (1995) • Dolores (1995) • The Mangler (199 5) • Thinner (1996) • Children of Wrath IV - Murderous Cult (1996) • Sometimes They Come Again II (1996) • Stephen King's Quicksilver Highway (1997) • Trucks - Out of Control (1997) • Quicksilver Highway (1997) • The Shining (1997) • Stephen King's The Night Flier (1997) • The Model Student (1998) • Children of Wrath 5 - Field of Terror (1998) • Children of Wrath 6 - Isaac's Return (1999) • The Storm of the Century (1999) • The Green Mile (1999) • The Mangler 2 (2001) • Hearts in Atlantis (2001) • Children of the Corn: Revelation (2001) • Fire Devil - The Return (2002) • Carrie (2002) • Stephen King's House of Doom (2002) • Dreamcatcher (2003) • Salem's Lot - Burning Must Salem (2004) • The Secret Window (2004) • Riding the Bullet (2004) • Desperation (2006) • Room 1408 (2007) • The Nebel (2007) • Dolan's Cadillac (2009) • Children of the Corn (2009) • Everything's Eventual (2009) • Children of Anger: Genesis - The Beginning (2011) • Willa (2013) • Carrie (2013) • Stephen King's a Good Marriage (2014) • Mercy - The Devil Knows No Mercy (2014) • Big Driver (2014) • Willa (short film) (2015) • Pulse (2016) • The Dark Tower (2017) • 1922 (2017 ) • The Game (2017) • It (2017) • The Doctor's Case (2018) • Mute (2018) • Cemetery of Stuffed Animals (2019) • It Chapter 2 (2019) • In the Tall Grass (2019) • Doctor Sleeps Awakening ( 2019)

TV Shows

Kingdom Hospital (2004) • Salem's Lot (2004) • Stephen King's Nightmares (2006) • Haven (2010–2015) • Stephen King's Bag of Bones (2011) • Under the Dome (2013–2015) • 11.22. 63 - The Attack (2016) • The Fog (2017) • Mr. Mercedes (2017) • Castle Rock (2018)