With a heroic swell in the soundtrack, Mark returns to his feet.
And when Richie charges for another assault, Mark takes the aggressor down and pins his arm back.
Despite Richie squealing Uncle!
Mark keeps the hold until their teacher Mr. Burke (Bill Camp) arrives to break it up.
After assuring the kids that he recognizes Richies wrongdoing, Mr. Burke imparts one lesson on Mark.
We take people at their word here in the Lot.
An insular, but changing community?
Dauberman nails them all.
And we havent even gotten to the vampires.
Dannys mother quickly and mysteriously follows both boys into the grave.
And crotchety Sheriff Parkins Gillespie (William Sadler) doesnt want to deal with any of it.
Starker buys the creepy-looking Marsten House and opens an antiques store with his absent partner Kurt Barlow.
And the vampire has a grim vision of what to do to this dying, forgotten town.
Thats particularly true of the thin characterization of all the leads.
The movies sole layered performance comes from youngster Jordan Preston Carter.
Instead of overburdening the characterizations, Dauberman devotes most of the runtime to gorgeous imagery and well-constructed scares.
Dauberman and cinematographer Michael Burgess contrast the warm nostalgia of the town against the threat in the darkness.
We see the inhuman Barlow descend a staircase and grow ever closer.
Inventive, lovely scare scenes occur throughout the movie.
Part of Kings genius in the 1975 novel was the idea of bringing classical vampires into the modern age.
Barlow had all the trademarks of European vampires.
Dauberman understands the mood and tone of Kings work.
Rating:
3 out of 5
