Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘The Mangler’ (1995)
Stephen King has had bad luck with the movie adaptations of his horror stories. For every “Carrie” or “The Shining,” there’s something like “The Mangler,” in which a town is terrorized by a demonic laundry machine. (To be fair to the filmmakers, King’s short story can’t have been very good to begin with.) It’s the subject of this week’s edition of Eric’s Bad Movies at Film.com, and it’s approximately as bad as it sounds.
Next week’s movie is from the 1980s, and I hadn’t even heard of it until multiple people suggested it as a candidate for Eric’s Bad Movies. It involves sports, and notice I used the plural.
October 30th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
I’m going with American Anthem.
October 30th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
I will go all in with “Gymkata”.
October 30th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Wow, I’d never even heard of this movie and I’m pretty sure I’ve read the short story it was based on.
October 31st, 2008 at 10:01 am
Marc, Gymkata has always been one of my favorite movies. I’m so glad they finally released it on DVD. My bet for next weeks movie is “Flying” starring the illustrious Keanu Reeves. What better sports are there than Gymnastics and Scholastics?
October 31st, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Haha yes – I bought this film seeing the names of Stephen King and Robert Englund on the front and realized 15 minutes into it that this is going to be the worst 1.5 – 2 hours of my movie watching life.