8 Most Ridiculous Stephen King Adaptations Of All Time

2. The Mangler 2 (2002)

Here's Lance Henriksen playing yet another growly authority figure, this time the head of a €œprestigious€ private school that has roughly seven students, three tutors and looks like a deserted office building. The staff are pornography consumers and alcoholics, the cook is mean and surly (he€™s French, you see) and the damn fool kids have just downloaded Mangler 2.0, a computer virus the web claims will destroy the lives of everyone you know. When Henriksen threatens to cancel the graduation prom following a practical joke, it annoys Tuesday Addams lookalike Joanne no end so, taking advice from the Jack Torrance Book Of Extreme Measures, she uploads the virus to the school€™s computer network. Attempting to stage a cutting-edge techno-thriller on a Roger Corman budget means that the €œsupercomputer€ is a home PC with lots of coloured wires, the film€™s big €˜stunt€™ (a car crashing through a fence) is shown three times and the soundtrack consists mainly of low-grade rave music (what is this, House Of The Dead?). It's barely even a movie. In his early scenes, Henriksen (spelled "Henricksen" in the end credits) looks so intense he might explode, but he chills out once he€™s been taken over by HAL, even giving us a brief rendition of Wannabe by The Spice Girls. For an uber-villain bent on World Domination, though, he's shockingly easy to defeat. Pushing him backwards is enough to make him shoot sparks, spit milk and bow his head in surrender. As "Henricksen" probably did at the end of each day€™s shooting.