Desperation

Amazed.

Yes I am. I rarely watch a movie based on a Stephen King book where I am thinking this one really follows the book. The book is epic and I did not have high expectations to the movie (after watching The Running Man I stopped these expectations)

But this one made it. Desperation is really a dead town and you will wonder what happened to all the people and why the only living one is a big cop who is kind of insane.
Kind of? He says he is a wolf, he says directly that he is going to kill the people he arrests.
He leaves a dead girl at the doorsteps just for show off. He says weird stuff and he always says Tak. And even more weird, he loves the writer he arrests but suddenly he hates him and beats him? Wth?

Entrigian as his name is is falling apart. What do you do when you fall apart? You switch to a new body, what else?
And God is gone, Tak is God.
Lucky for the prisoners the little boy is brave enough to escape though a dog is on watch and can easily kill him. Apparently the poor boy is about to see stuff that kids shouldn't see.
The writer should be happy that his assistance is far behind and he has picked up a hitchhiker who finds Desperation on a map. It takes some time though before they find the prison escapers and they are brought to an almost safe place.
The old vet in town seems to know that what's going on in the town has something to do with reopening the old mine.

I do not want to spoil too much but when you read history books you always read talks about how good your people where and how cruel "the others where." The Vet should have done better research as no slaves were treated fair.
So will they get out alive, will they fight Tak and what can they do?
I will let you watch the rest, it is a cool movie.
Scary, no, but cool.

Have fun.