Set in a small Maine town (as per usual), the inhabitants are cut off from the outside world by an impenetrable gigantic dome that just falls out of the sky one day. A lot of people die from this event including the Police Chief - whose pacemaker explodes when he gets too close to the barrier. Big Jim (a carpet pedlar) takes opportunistic control of the town - hiring an incompetent Police Chief and promoting his son Junior as an officer. Unbeknownst to him, Junior is afflicted with a massive brain tumour and is killing girls in the town. A retired US army Dale 'Barbie' Barbara is trapped in the dome. He gets a phone call courtesy of the army which reinstates him into the military as a Colonel and virtually gives him license to do whatever he wants. Big Jim is ticked off by this undermining of his power and tries to wreak havoc and rise tensions under the dome. This includes arresting Barbie for four murders. Big Jim becomes a total tyrant and the brutality of his 'police force' increases. Barbie is sprung by activists from jail. He kills Junior. On a televised outsiders meet the dome folk extravaganza, there is a horrible cock up with a meth lab which incinerates most of the town and kills more than a thousand of the town's residents live on air. There are about 330 people left and they are quickly expiring due to the toxic fumes. Julia the journalist goes to the control room and begs one of the aliens who planted the dome in the first place to lift it. Will the last stragglers survive? Under the Dome is a fantastic concept and it is thrillingly executed in the book by Stephen King. Scary is maybe not the right world for the book, however if you think about a big dome trapping you and your town folk in together, it would be pretty scary - the sense of entrapment. And it would be especially scary if your town has a Big Jim character causing havoc with down and dirty power politics. He is like some downmarket little Mussolini. It is a highly addictive novel which is both sprawling and epic in scope. It actually comes off as being rather like The Stand in its tense battle between good and evil. If you are out of the loop of Stephen King's bibliography, Under the Dome is a good old fashioned scary epic to get you back in.
My first film watched was Carrie aged 2 on my dad's knee. Educated at The University of St Andrews and Trinity College Dublin. Fan of Arthouse, Exploitation, Horror, Euro Trash, Giallo, New French Extremism. Weaned at the bosom of a Russ Meyer starlet. The bleaker, artier or sleazier the better!
Set in a small Maine town (as per usual), the inhabitants are cut off from the outside world by an impenetrable gigantic dome that just falls out of the sky one day. A lot of people die from this event including the Police Chief - whose pacemaker explodes when he gets too close to the barrier. Big Jim (a carpet pedlar) takes opportunistic control of the town - hiring an incompetent Police Chief and promoting his son Junior as an officer. Unbeknownst to him, Junior is afflicted with a massive brain tumour and is killing girls in the town. A retired US army Dale 'Barbie' Barbara is trapped in the dome. He gets a phone call courtesy of the army which reinstates him into the military as a Colonel and virtually gives him license to do whatever he wants. Big Jim is ticked off by this undermining of his power and tries to wreak havoc and rise tensions under the dome. This includes arresting Barbie for four murders. Big Jim becomes a total tyrant and the brutality of his 'police force' increases. Barbie is sprung by activists from jail. He kills Junior. On a televised outsiders meet the dome folk extravaganza, there is a horrible cock up with a meth lab which incinerates most of the town and kills more than a thousand of the town's residents live on air. There are about 330 people left and they are quickly expiring due to the toxic fumes. Julia the journalist goes to the control room and begs one of the aliens who planted the dome in the first place to lift it. Will the last stragglers survive? Under the Dome is a fantastic concept and it is thrillingly executed in the book by Stephen King. Scary is maybe not the right world for the book, however if you think about a big dome trapping you and your town folk in together, it would be pretty scary - the sense of entrapment. And it would be especially scary if your town has a Big Jim character causing havoc with down and dirty power politics. He is like some downmarket little Mussolini. It is a highly addictive novel which is both sprawling and epic in scope. It actually comes off as being rather like The Stand in its tense battle between good and evil. If you are out of the loop of Stephen King's bibliography, Under the Dome is a good old fashioned scary epic to get you back in.