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3 out of 3 people found the following comment useful:-
Great sets, but story doesn't wash., 10 November 1999
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Hup234! from Kenosha, Wisconsin
I really wanted to like "The Mangler". Stephen King, as a struggling
young father and aspiring author in the 1960s, took a grueling job in a
sweatshop laundry where, to pass the time and exercise his imagination,
he fantasized about the hulking machinery there as being an evil
entity, waiting to kill. (Remember as a child being apprehensive about
walking past the furnace in the basement?) Well, he did pen "The
Mangler", a masterful short story about just that, a possessed washing
machine, and made it a minor classic. Now here comes Hollywood in the
1990s, hanging its story lines not on mood and atmosphere but on
in-your-face special effects and adolescent gore. This film is an
insult to King's pioneering short story, and to the set designer who
indeed created a worthy villain in the brooding machine monster. "The
Mangler" is only lifted off the rock-bottom 1 rating to a 3 because of
its well-done sets. Otherwise, just read the terrific original short
story, and leave this bomb out to dry.
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