I am a huge fan of Stephen King, but I await with much trepidation any movie based on a Stephen King novel after the horrific jobs done on The Shining, Maximum Overdrive, The Lawnmower man for God's sake, and The Tommyknockers just to name four. I know there have been solid movies, like Needful Things, Misery and The Green Mile but the misses far out-weigh the hits. In the first installment of the Nightsmares & Dreamscapes television series, "Battleground" was a great hour-long movie based on the short story that appears in "Graveyard Shift." In it, a hit man kills a toy maker and is later besieged in his high-rise apartment by a box of toy army men ... which are much more than toys and come equipped with rifles, helicopters and one little surprise at the end. Seemingly influenced by (or at least similar to) an old Twilight Zone episode, this movie puts a reverse spin on the giant monster movies of the 1950s ... telling the story from the monster's point a view. In that regard, a nice little twist in this show was that not a single line a dialog is spoken. "Crouch End" was also a solid chiller, with a Lovecraft feel to it and a twist at the end that I didn't quite understand and didn't quite like.
