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Dreamcatcher AuthorStephen KingCover artistCliff NielsenCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishGenreScience fictionPublisherScribnerPublication dateFebruary 20, 2001Media typePrint (Hardcover and Paperback)Pages620ISBN978-0-7432-1138-3
The Ripley, also known in the novel as Byrus (Byrum for plural), are a fictional complex parasitoid alien macro virus that appear as primary antagonists of the Stephen King novel and film Dreamcatcher. The adult aliens resemble deformed serpent-like beings with legs, while the younger aliens, or byrum - nicknamed ’shit-weasels’ because they can be created in a host organism’s stomach. The Ripley, also known in the novel as Byrus (Byrum for plural), are a fictional complex parasitoid alien macro virus that appear as primary antagonists of the Stephen King novel and film Dreamcatcher. The adult aliens resemble deformed serpent-like beings with legs, while the younger aliens, or byrum - nicknamed ’shit-weasels’ because they can be created in a host organism’s stomach. Alien Possessor Mr. Gray is the main antagonist of Stephen King’s 2001 novel Dreamcatcher, and its 2003 live-action film adaptation of the same name. He is the alien commander of the Byrus species and he plans to infect the entire world. Whilst possessing Jonesy, he was portrayed by Damian Lewis.
Dreamcatcher is a 2001 science fictionhorror novel by American writer Stephen King, featuring elements of body horror, suspense and alien invasion. The book, written in cursive, helped the author recuperate from a 1999 car accident, and was completed in half a year. According to the author in his afterword, the working title was Cancer.[1] His wife, Tabitha King, persuaded him to change the title. A film adaptation was released in 2003.
In 2014, King told Rolling Stone that ’I don’t like Dreamcatcher very much,’ and stated that the book was written under the influence of Oxycontin.[2]Plot summary[edit]
Set near the fictional town of Derry, Maine, Dreamcatcher is the story of four lifelong friends: Gary ’Jonesy’ Jones, Pete Moore, Joe ’Beaver’ Clarendon and Henry Devlin. As young teenagers, the four saved Douglas ’Duddits’ Cavell, an older boy with Down syndrome, from a group of sadistic bullies. From their new friendship with Duddits, Jonesy, Beaver, Henry and Pete began to share the boy’s unusual powers, including telepathy, shared dreaming, and seeing ’the line’, a psychic trace left by the movement of human beings.
Jonesy, Beaver, Henry and Pete reunite for their annual hunting trip at the Hole-in-the-Wall, an isolated lodge in the Jefferson Tract. There, they become caught between an alien invasion and an insane US Army Colonel, Abraham Kurtz. Jonesy and Beaver, who remain at the cabin while Henry and Pete go out for supplies, encounter Richard McCarthy, a disoriented and delirious stranger wandering near the lodge during a blizzard talking about lights in the sky. The victim of an alien abduction, McCarthy grows sicker and dies while sitting on the toilet. An extraterrestrial parasite eats its way out of his body and attacks the two men, killing Beaver. Jonesy inhales the spores of the strange reddish fungus that the stranger and his parasite have spread around the cabin, and an alien entity (’Mr. Gray’) takes over his mind.
On the return trip from their supply run, Henry and Pete encounter a woman from the same hunting party as the strange man at the cabin. She is also delirious and infected with a parasite. After crashing their car, Henry leaves Pete with the woman and attempts to regain the cabin by foot. From there, his telepathic senses let him know that Pete is in trouble, Beaver is dead, and Jonesy is no longer Jonesy. Mr. Gray, manipulating Jonesy’s body, is attempting to leave the area. The aliens have attempted to infect Earth multiple times, beginning with the Roswell crash in the 1940s, but environmental factors have always stopped them, and the US government has covered up the failed invasion attempts every time. With the infection of Jonesy, who can contain the alien within his mind and also spread the infection, Mr. Gray has become the perfect Typhoid Mary—and he knows it.
It becomes up to Henry—by now a quarantined prisoner of the Army—to convince the military to go after Jonesy/Mr. Gray before it is too late. Jonesy himself, now a prisoner in his own mind, tries to help. Both of them are convinced that their old friend Duddits may be the key to saving the world.See also[edit]References[edit]
*^Matt Thorne on Stephen King: Dreamcatcher, The Guardian
*^’Page 4 of Stephen King: The Rolling Stone Interview - Rolling Stone’. Rolling Stone.External links[edit]
*Book review on Entertainment WeeklyStephen King DudditsRetrieved from ’https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dreamcatcher_(novel)&oldid=1002550787’
There are few things in life as fun as trying to recount the plot to 2003’s Dreamcatcher.
Based on the Stephen King book of the same name, Dreamcatcher is about four lifelong friends who are returning to a cabin in the woods for their annual hunting trip. They have a lot of inside jokes and shared phrases that are incredibly unfunny to everyone except them. Oh, by the way, they’re all psychically connected to one another because of one time when they were kids and they helped out a mentally handicapped boy named Duddits.
Oh, we’re just getting started.
The friends help a very sick man they find in the woods and invite him back to the cabin. Meanwhile, a horde of animals run past the cabin seemingly in terror. They return to the cabin to find the man dead on the toilet. Inside the toilet is a creature they not-so-affectionally refer to as a “shit weasel” that appears to have burrowed out of the man’s rear end.
One of the friends, Jonesy, tries to escape but is confronted by a giant alien who then possesses him, locking Jonesy’s inner self in a memory palace in his mind. This alien takes on the persona of Mr. Gray and speaks in a posh English accent.
Guys, we’re barely into this.
Meanwhile, a military unit has locked down the area in order to hush up the alien invasion. They’re led by Colonel Abraham Curtis, played by Morgan Freeman, and he’s kinda crazy. His troops hunt down and kill a collection of the aliens in spite of them asking for mercy.
Two of the friends are killed by the aliens but Harry, the surviving friend who isn’t currently being possessed by an alien, discovers that Curtis plans to kill all the people in the area who might know about the aliens. He convinces the second-in-command to relieve Curtis of his command in order to prevent this.
Almost there…
Meanwhile, Jonesy realizes that Mr. Gray is looking for information on Duddits. Harry and the second-in-command make for Duddits’ home and find out he’s dying from leukemia. They bring him to a reservoir to stop Mr. Grey from seeding the local water with more “shit weasels” which would trigger a mass invasion. They’re able to get Mr. Grey to leave Jonesy’s body just in time as Duddits reveals himself to have been an alien the whole time. They fight and explode and, apparently, die. Jonesy and Harry kill the remaining “shit weasels” and save the day. The end.
Holy shit, you guys.
If you haven’t ever watched the film, you might be a bit mad at me right now for spoiling the whole thing, but, honestly, it’s irrelevant to your enjoyment of this insane movie whether or not you’re shocked by the plot twists involved. If anything, knowing exactly what’s coming helps you to relax and appreciate the amazing efforts taken to make this film and all of the truly absurd choices that some very talented people made. And at no point, apparently, did any one of them take a step back and say, you know what, this is batshit crazy, you guys.
Dreamcatcher is not some fly-by-night production. The adapted screenplay was written by William Goldman (All the President’s Men, The Princess Bride). The film is directed by Lawrence Kasdan (The Big Chill, co-writer on The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars: The Force Awakens). The cast includes Morgan Freeman, Thomas Jane, Damien Lewis, Timothy Olyphant, and Tom Sizemore (back before that wasn’t a good sign). The budget on the film clocked in around $68 million. By all accounts, this was a major motion picture with major motion picture intentions.
Draftkings sign up. So how the hell did it end up as a fart and shit-obsessed movie full of lines like “Jesus-Christ-bananas, some fuckarow this is turning into” that also cast Donnie Wahlberg as a mentally challenged man?Duddits Stephen King Wiki
Like so many things, we can blame Stephen King.
You’ve heard the cliche before. Stephen King’s horror stories make for bad movies while his non-horror stories end up being great films (Shawshank Redemption, Stand By Me). In theory, you can see how Kasdan and Goldman might have looked at Dreamcatcher and thought it was the best of both worlds. A large section of the book is dedicated to the main characters as young boys growing up in Maine, dealing with bullies, and overcoming their fears.
Does that sound familiar? Stand By Me and It certainly think so. So you get the coming-of-age stories that do well theatrically while also getting a chance to lean into horror.
Unfortunately, that only works in theory, mostly because Dreamcatcher the book also works mostly in theory. Here’s what King himself had to say about the book in a Rolling Stone interview years later.
I don’t like Dreamcatcher very much. Dreamcatcher was written after the accident. [In 1999, King was hit by a van while taking a walk and left severely injured.] I was using a lot of Oxycontin for pain. And I couldn’t work on a computer back then because it hurt too much to sit in that position. So I wrote the whole thing longhand. And I was pretty stoned when I wrote it, because of the Oxy, and that’s another book that shows the drugs at work.Duddits Stephen King Wikipedia
First of all, regardless of the output, that’s still impressive. Second of all, it kinda helps to make sense of all this craziness. Dreamcatcher takes a whole bunch of better Stephen King books, throws them in a blender, incorporates a ton of poop humor, and bakes in the oven only one-third as long as it should have.Duddits Stephen King Wikipedia
It should also be noted that, according to King, the original title of the book was Cancer. House of pokies. Woof.
Even King’s best books are littered with characters who invoke strange quirks and use absurd jargon and catchphrases no one would ever say in real life. The trick to translating King to the big screen is to throw much of that stuff out and replace it with mannerisms and words that actual human beings use (which is part of the reason his non-horror stories work well on film).
Instead, Goldman and Kasdan leaned into the idioms and quirks that King peppered into his characters in Dreamcatcher. That’s how we end up with our heroes uttering phrases such as “Well, Fuck Me Freddie,” “Bitch in a buzzsaw,” and “This is turning into a real fuckarow. A real jobbanabba.”Duddits Stephen King BiographyStephen King Duddits Film
That appreciation of the source material comes across in the performances, which swing between mildly hammy and full-on ham, egg, and cheese. Characters are constantly making choices that make no sense. The plot appears to be making itself up as it goes. And the ending, goodness the ending, where a special needs person they meet as children was actually an alien all along in a long game strategy to prevent an invasion by “shit weasels,” well, what do you even say? Other than… how did all of these people end up agreeing this was a good idea?Duddits Stephen King Obituary
And that’s the question that should be running through your mind the entire time you watch Dreamcatcher. No better time than now to do it, too, as the film celebrates its 15th anniversary. It’s available on Netflix right now, so block out a little time to watch it and wonder with every strange one-liner, gross farting noise, and mind-breaking plot development how this so-bad-its-good-but-also-not film got made.
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Dreamcatcher AuthorStephen KingCover artistCliff NielsenCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishGenreScience fictionPublisherScribnerPublication dateFebruary 20, 2001Media typePrint (Hardcover and Paperback)Pages620ISBN978-0-7432-1138-3
The Ripley, also known in the novel as Byrus (Byrum for plural), are a fictional complex parasitoid alien macro virus that appear as primary antagonists of the Stephen King novel and film Dreamcatcher. The adult aliens resemble deformed serpent-like beings with legs, while the younger aliens, or byrum - nicknamed ’shit-weasels’ because they can be created in a host organism’s stomach. The Ripley, also known in the novel as Byrus (Byrum for plural), are a fictional complex parasitoid alien macro virus that appear as primary antagonists of the Stephen King novel and film Dreamcatcher. The adult aliens resemble deformed serpent-like beings with legs, while the younger aliens, or byrum - nicknamed ’shit-weasels’ because they can be created in a host organism’s stomach. Alien Possessor Mr. Gray is the main antagonist of Stephen King’s 2001 novel Dreamcatcher, and its 2003 live-action film adaptation of the same name. He is the alien commander of the Byrus species and he plans to infect the entire world. Whilst possessing Jonesy, he was portrayed by Damian Lewis.
Dreamcatcher is a 2001 science fictionhorror novel by American writer Stephen King, featuring elements of body horror, suspense and alien invasion. The book, written in cursive, helped the author recuperate from a 1999 car accident, and was completed in half a year. According to the author in his afterword, the working title was Cancer.[1] His wife, Tabitha King, persuaded him to change the title. A film adaptation was released in 2003.
In 2014, King told Rolling Stone that ’I don’t like Dreamcatcher very much,’ and stated that the book was written under the influence of Oxycontin.[2]Plot summary[edit]
Set near the fictional town of Derry, Maine, Dreamcatcher is the story of four lifelong friends: Gary ’Jonesy’ Jones, Pete Moore, Joe ’Beaver’ Clarendon and Henry Devlin. As young teenagers, the four saved Douglas ’Duddits’ Cavell, an older boy with Down syndrome, from a group of sadistic bullies. From their new friendship with Duddits, Jonesy, Beaver, Henry and Pete began to share the boy’s unusual powers, including telepathy, shared dreaming, and seeing ’the line’, a psychic trace left by the movement of human beings.
Jonesy, Beaver, Henry and Pete reunite for their annual hunting trip at the Hole-in-the-Wall, an isolated lodge in the Jefferson Tract. There, they become caught between an alien invasion and an insane US Army Colonel, Abraham Kurtz. Jonesy and Beaver, who remain at the cabin while Henry and Pete go out for supplies, encounter Richard McCarthy, a disoriented and delirious stranger wandering near the lodge during a blizzard talking about lights in the sky. The victim of an alien abduction, McCarthy grows sicker and dies while sitting on the toilet. An extraterrestrial parasite eats its way out of his body and attacks the two men, killing Beaver. Jonesy inhales the spores of the strange reddish fungus that the stranger and his parasite have spread around the cabin, and an alien entity (’Mr. Gray’) takes over his mind.
On the return trip from their supply run, Henry and Pete encounter a woman from the same hunting party as the strange man at the cabin. She is also delirious and infected with a parasite. After crashing their car, Henry leaves Pete with the woman and attempts to regain the cabin by foot. From there, his telepathic senses let him know that Pete is in trouble, Beaver is dead, and Jonesy is no longer Jonesy. Mr. Gray, manipulating Jonesy’s body, is attempting to leave the area. The aliens have attempted to infect Earth multiple times, beginning with the Roswell crash in the 1940s, but environmental factors have always stopped them, and the US government has covered up the failed invasion attempts every time. With the infection of Jonesy, who can contain the alien within his mind and also spread the infection, Mr. Gray has become the perfect Typhoid Mary—and he knows it.
It becomes up to Henry—by now a quarantined prisoner of the Army—to convince the military to go after Jonesy/Mr. Gray before it is too late. Jonesy himself, now a prisoner in his own mind, tries to help. Both of them are convinced that their old friend Duddits may be the key to saving the world.See also[edit]References[edit]
*^Matt Thorne on Stephen King: Dreamcatcher, The Guardian
*^’Page 4 of Stephen King: The Rolling Stone Interview - Rolling Stone’. Rolling Stone.External links[edit]
*Book review on Entertainment WeeklyStephen King DudditsRetrieved from ’https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dreamcatcher_(novel)&oldid=1002550787’
There are few things in life as fun as trying to recount the plot to 2003’s Dreamcatcher.
Based on the Stephen King book of the same name, Dreamcatcher is about four lifelong friends who are returning to a cabin in the woods for their annual hunting trip. They have a lot of inside jokes and shared phrases that are incredibly unfunny to everyone except them. Oh, by the way, they’re all psychically connected to one another because of one time when they were kids and they helped out a mentally handicapped boy named Duddits.
Oh, we’re just getting started.
The friends help a very sick man they find in the woods and invite him back to the cabin. Meanwhile, a horde of animals run past the cabin seemingly in terror. They return to the cabin to find the man dead on the toilet. Inside the toilet is a creature they not-so-affectionally refer to as a “shit weasel” that appears to have burrowed out of the man’s rear end.
One of the friends, Jonesy, tries to escape but is confronted by a giant alien who then possesses him, locking Jonesy’s inner self in a memory palace in his mind. This alien takes on the persona of Mr. Gray and speaks in a posh English accent.
Guys, we’re barely into this.
Meanwhile, a military unit has locked down the area in order to hush up the alien invasion. They’re led by Colonel Abraham Curtis, played by Morgan Freeman, and he’s kinda crazy. His troops hunt down and kill a collection of the aliens in spite of them asking for mercy.
Two of the friends are killed by the aliens but Harry, the surviving friend who isn’t currently being possessed by an alien, discovers that Curtis plans to kill all the people in the area who might know about the aliens. He convinces the second-in-command to relieve Curtis of his command in order to prevent this.
Almost there…
Meanwhile, Jonesy realizes that Mr. Gray is looking for information on Duddits. Harry and the second-in-command make for Duddits’ home and find out he’s dying from leukemia. They bring him to a reservoir to stop Mr. Grey from seeding the local water with more “shit weasels” which would trigger a mass invasion. They’re able to get Mr. Grey to leave Jonesy’s body just in time as Duddits reveals himself to have been an alien the whole time. They fight and explode and, apparently, die. Jonesy and Harry kill the remaining “shit weasels” and save the day. The end.
Holy shit, you guys.
If you haven’t ever watched the film, you might be a bit mad at me right now for spoiling the whole thing, but, honestly, it’s irrelevant to your enjoyment of this insane movie whether or not you’re shocked by the plot twists involved. If anything, knowing exactly what’s coming helps you to relax and appreciate the amazing efforts taken to make this film and all of the truly absurd choices that some very talented people made. And at no point, apparently, did any one of them take a step back and say, you know what, this is batshit crazy, you guys.
Dreamcatcher is not some fly-by-night production. The adapted screenplay was written by William Goldman (All the President’s Men, The Princess Bride). The film is directed by Lawrence Kasdan (The Big Chill, co-writer on The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars: The Force Awakens). The cast includes Morgan Freeman, Thomas Jane, Damien Lewis, Timothy Olyphant, and Tom Sizemore (back before that wasn’t a good sign). The budget on the film clocked in around $68 million. By all accounts, this was a major motion picture with major motion picture intentions.
Draftkings sign up. So how the hell did it end up as a fart and shit-obsessed movie full of lines like “Jesus-Christ-bananas, some fuckarow this is turning into” that also cast Donnie Wahlberg as a mentally challenged man?Duddits Stephen King Wiki
Like so many things, we can blame Stephen King.
You’ve heard the cliche before. Stephen King’s horror stories make for bad movies while his non-horror stories end up being great films (Shawshank Redemption, Stand By Me). In theory, you can see how Kasdan and Goldman might have looked at Dreamcatcher and thought it was the best of both worlds. A large section of the book is dedicated to the main characters as young boys growing up in Maine, dealing with bullies, and overcoming their fears.
Does that sound familiar? Stand By Me and It certainly think so. So you get the coming-of-age stories that do well theatrically while also getting a chance to lean into horror.
Unfortunately, that only works in theory, mostly because Dreamcatcher the book also works mostly in theory. Here’s what King himself had to say about the book in a Rolling Stone interview years later.
I don’t like Dreamcatcher very much. Dreamcatcher was written after the accident. [In 1999, King was hit by a van while taking a walk and left severely injured.] I was using a lot of Oxycontin for pain. And I couldn’t work on a computer back then because it hurt too much to sit in that position. So I wrote the whole thing longhand. And I was pretty stoned when I wrote it, because of the Oxy, and that’s another book that shows the drugs at work.Duddits Stephen King Wikipedia
First of all, regardless of the output, that’s still impressive. Second of all, it kinda helps to make sense of all this craziness. Dreamcatcher takes a whole bunch of better Stephen King books, throws them in a blender, incorporates a ton of poop humor, and bakes in the oven only one-third as long as it should have.Duddits Stephen King Wikipedia
It should also be noted that, according to King, the original title of the book was Cancer. House of pokies. Woof.
Even King’s best books are littered with characters who invoke strange quirks and use absurd jargon and catchphrases no one would ever say in real life. The trick to translating King to the big screen is to throw much of that stuff out and replace it with mannerisms and words that actual human beings use (which is part of the reason his non-horror stories work well on film).
Instead, Goldman and Kasdan leaned into the idioms and quirks that King peppered into his characters in Dreamcatcher. That’s how we end up with our heroes uttering phrases such as “Well, Fuck Me Freddie,” “Bitch in a buzzsaw,” and “This is turning into a real fuckarow. A real jobbanabba.”Duddits Stephen King BiographyStephen King Duddits Film
That appreciation of the source material comes across in the performances, which swing between mildly hammy and full-on ham, egg, and cheese. Characters are constantly making choices that make no sense. The plot appears to be making itself up as it goes. And the ending, goodness the ending, where a special needs person they meet as children was actually an alien all along in a long game strategy to prevent an invasion by “shit weasels,” well, what do you even say? Other than… how did all of these people end up agreeing this was a good idea?Duddits Stephen King Obituary
And that’s the question that should be running through your mind the entire time you watch Dreamcatcher. No better time than now to do it, too, as the film celebrates its 15th anniversary. It’s available on Netflix right now, so block out a little time to watch it and wonder with every strange one-liner, gross farting noise, and mind-breaking plot development how this so-bad-its-good-but-also-not film got made.
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