Review – Bag of Bones

Stephen King does a reasonably good job with novels. Mick Garris is okay at the hour-long horror TV series episode. This, however, is neither. One of King’s lesser novels gets turned into a two-part miniseries that suffers from a lot of the faults of the source material, particularly the bad pacing and general dullness. Pierce Brosnan stars as an author suffering from writer’s block in the wake of his wife’s death. His retreat to a lake house in the Maine backwoods brings him afoul of a small town with a sinister past. Almost all the actual plot points occur in the second half, though I suppose you’d miss a little important set-up if you skipped the first half entirely. In the alternate, you could just watch Ghost Story and get a similar story without a lot of the filler. Mildly amusing