The Mangler

film #15 of hooptober 4.0: revenge of the hoop there are certainly some bad film adaptation's of stephen king's stories, and worse ones than the mangler. but few of them actively revel in how bad they are more than tobe hooper's take on king's short story about a demonically-possessed industrial laundry folder. there's value in that, to be fair. hooper adds a ton of camp value to this tale in his direction and work with the script, which he co-wrote with stephen brooks and peter welbeck. the whole thing is wildly scattershot at its best moments and incoherent at its worst, with random read more

not something i'll remember because it's "good" or has a memorable story... but there's an adequate amount of camp in the way hooper projects this world and its characters making sure i will at least remember it. a possessed speed iron has to be the stephen kingiest stephen king concept he's ever farted out, which is probably part of why i'm into it. read more