One of my favorite movies. Thank you, Stephen, for a good story, as well as a special thanks to the creator of the film Tobe Hooper.
I must admit that I have not read the story myself. I decided not to spoil the impression after watching a demon detective. It is no secret that after the film adaptation, many works do not know at all.
What did "Davil" personally hook me with? Gothic atmosphere, mixed with supernatural forces. Just imagine an old laundry building, in the center of which there is a metal monster with ironing board functions. Everything that falls on his ribbon, grinded into flour.
Unhappy workers often fall victim to a demonic design, but it is not disassembled or replaced by another apparatus. The owners have plans for her. Moreover, all the power in the city is tied to this unit.
Naturally, the film adaptation of King’s story is not an ordinary horror movie in which people are chased by an almost immortal maniac or zombie mixed with vampires. "Pressure" is more than that.
Acting is on top. Robert Englund is especially charismatic in the role of a crippled rich man with jade habits. You watch and enjoy his game. Ted Levine played a good detective, but without a spark. All right, check in along the way. Boring, but tolerant. The atmosphere of the film saves the situation.
And, finally, the most cool moment is the awakening of the “pressure”, which begins to jump quickly through the laundry rooms. You really have to see that. Pretty funny. It's kind of a cross-country chase race.
If the mood is bad, then I recommend looking at at least one eye to relax and relieve the burden of problems. Great psychological effect in a gift from King.
8 out of 10
Forgiveness is a divine gift, especially if you can forgive yourself.
The works of Stephen King have already accumulated a lot. Some are excellent, some come out average, but watchable. But most often it turns out wild thrash, due to the fact that poorly adapted the printed original for large screens. The hardest thing to do is with small stories that can be read in half an hour. The film "Davil" is just such cases.
There's an accident at the Blue Ribbon Laundromat. A woman who worked on a large press for pressing clothes is pulled inside. Detective Hunton arrives at the laundry room for an investigation, but the examination shows that the incident was the fault of the deceased, due to security violations. After recovering from the shock, everyone begins to work as usual until accidents begin to occur with a frightening frequency.
I'm familiar with Stephen King's story, and I have to say, this film doesn't even appeal to the middle class. There are things that you can’t transfer from paper to screen, either visually or the story itself. And the master of horror has such stories. As a short horror story, it's not bad, but as a horror movie, it's disgusting.
It is clear that if you transfer this story almost literally, then the film will turn out to be a maximum hour-long event. Where more appropriate it would look in some anthology series, such as “Kaleidoscope of horrors”, as an episode. But no. Director Tobe Hooper decided to disperse it to a full-length feature, and made a mistake.
Those who are not familiar with the printed original, but just sat down to watch the film, hoping to get scared, I will disappoint. This picture will seem to you complete nonsense. Especially the ending. Even though we have all the details here. Firstly, it's boring, and secondly, it's a very stupid idea and it smells like thrash. Even I thought it was nonsense. Plus, for the film came up with a bunch of new characters, and tried to register them in history, because of which the plot began to crack.
The rest of the film is as bad as the film adaptations of Uwe Ball's games. Some people don’t understand the simple fact that it’s interesting to play the game yourself, but it’s not very interesting to look at the same story from the outside. Same with the movie "Pushdown." Reading the story gives free rein to the imagination, here you look at someone else’s free version.
Robert Englund is known for his role as Freddy Krugger, but he also occasionally flashes in various low-budget horror films. Sometimes very low-grade. Here he played the main antagonist. He succeeds in the role of villains, however strange it may sound, but he has already developed a characteristic acting role.
"Pressure" has two more sequels, not related to Stephen King. I have no desire to watch them at all. I've had enough delirium. A good story turned into a stupid, absolutely fearless movie.
2 out of 10
Forgiveness is a divine gift, especially if you can forgive yourself.
The works of Stephen King have already accumulated a lot. Some are excellent, some come out average, but watchable. But most often it turns out wild thrash, due to the fact that poorly adapted the printed original for large screens. The hardest thing to do is with small stories that can be read in half an hour. The film "Davil" is just such cases.
There's an accident in the Blue Ribbon Laundromat. A woman who worked on a large press for pressing clothes is pulled inside. Detective Hunton arrives at the laundry room for an investigation, but the examination shows that the incident was caused by the deceased, due to security violations. After recovering from the shock, everyone begins to work as usual until accidents begin to occur with a frightening frequency.
I'm familiar with Stephen King's story, and I have to say, this film doesn't even appeal to the middle class. There are things that you can’t transfer from paper to screen, either visually or the story itself. And the master of horror has such stories. As a short horror story, it's not bad, but as a horror movie, it's disgusting.
It is clear that if you transfer this story almost literally, then the film will turn out to be a maximum hour-long event. Where more appropriate it would look in some anthology series, such as “Kaleidoscope of horrors”, as an episode. But no. Director Tobe Hooper decided to disperse it to a full-length feature, and made a mistake.
Those who are not familiar with the printed original, but just sat down to watch the film, hoping to get scared, I will disappoint. This picture will seem to you complete nonsense. Especially the ending. Even though we have all the details here. Firstly, it's boring, and secondly, it's a very stupid idea and it smells like thrash. Even I thought it was nonsense. Plus, for the film came up with a bunch of new characters, and tried to register them in history, because of which the plot began to crack.
The rest of the film is as bad as the film adaptations of Uwe Ball's games. Some people don’t understand the simple fact that it’s interesting to play the game yourself, but it’s not very interesting to look at the same story from the outside. Same with the movie "Pushdown." Reading the story gives free rein to the imagination, here you look at someone else’s free version.
Robert Englund is known for the role of Freddy Kruger, but he also periodically flashes in various low-budget horror films. Sometimes very low-grade. Here he played the main antagonist. He succeeds in the role of villains, however strange it may sound, but he has already developed a characteristic acting role.
"Pressure" has two more sequels, not related to Stephen King. I have no desire to watch them at all. I've had enough delirium. A good story turned into a stupid, absolutely fearless movie.
2 out of 10
A terrible adaptation of Stephen King with an incredibly disgusting ending. Director Tobe Hooper has been questioned to the full program. First, nostalgia is absent. Two, Hooper pulled it. Third, clumsy scenario. Fourth, weak (oh very weak, emphasize) directing.
By the way, never noticed that Stephen King often gave life to inanimate objects (Trucks, Christina, etc.). Director Hooper builds (in all seriousness) a detective line that does not work for him at all.
At a certain point, you realize that you are watching heresy about demonic press for smoothing laundry. Once again, feel - a giant ironing machine eats the workers. I’ve been talking about this for a long time, I repeat, some works of Stephen King are better not to touch filmmakers, a-hee-hee.
Yes, Freddy Krueger is here. Englund bows to the floor, but his character freezes. Grunting, hissing, carrying fierce game about a special class of the chosen. Sorry, no, I don't believe this story. There's a cheap treshak, there's a fridge crushing everyone. Hooper with his “Davil” hangs around somewhere, although (it seems) should claim something more.
Positive heroes are depressing. And all this praise, supposedly cool visual. Well, wow, debatable actually (loses to Night Shift, subjectively). The makeup of Inglund’s hero is a joke, outdated. Blood sketches don't help. In short, Hooper (unfortunately again) upset. His "Salem Vampires" by King look much better.
4 out of 10
She is a ruthless killer, and no one can stop her, she is a bloodthirsty predator demanding blood and meat, her name is Davilka and she is a speed ironing press.
At the laundry, one of the washers is dragged by a crusher, but the work is not stopped, a veteran police officer John Hunton takes up this case. He is confronted by laundry owner William Gartley, a strange petty miser on prosthetic limbs. A police officer and his friend decide to deal with the car without knowing who they are contacting.
John Hunton is a depressive grey-eyed cop who believes he can change lives and save people. Mark, a friend of John’s, a superstitious man who takes supernatural things seriously, believes in the machine’s obsession. Sheri is Gardley's niece, a nice girl. Lin Sue is a girl not burdened with ambition and thirst for money.
Separately about Mr. William Gardley - Robert Englund has perfectly created the image of the owner of the laundry. A lame and one-eyed man who is possessed not by demons but by his power and money, which has completely enslaved and corrupted him.
The film, although old, but looks interesting, the plot does not fixate on one laundry, the policeman drives around the car around the town and investigates other cases. A special charm to the picture gives a gloomy atmosphere that is created not only by accidents, the place of what is happening, but also by the gloomy events occurring around the main character.
The finale is in the best traditions of Stephen King, in general, I did not find any shortcomings, I will recommend the film for viewing not only to fans of Stephen King’s work but also to fans of films about obsessive machines.
6 out of 10
I remember my impressions of Stephen King’s story of the same name. I remember my disgust (so much has been described naturalistically), my fear, my extreme surprise and my delight. An outstanding writer of our time, King left no stone unturned from the story of the ironing machine-killer. He brought to the story just as much as was needed, and exactly what was needed to keep the intrigue going until the very end. That’s why I love the “great and terrible king” Stephen.
A film based on his small work would have turned out, if not for some “buts”.
Before I mention the disadvantages, I will highlight the merits. They are not limited only to Robert Englund, who brilliantly performed his role. "Freddy Krueger" knows how to play nasty types, disgusting and creepy. Here his hero is also disabled, moving without a wheelchair, with the help of prosthetic tripods (or what is the name of what his legs were dressed in?). Yes He's eerily "beautiful"...
The movie itself is impressive. The special effects for that time were high. The ironing machine is great. The atmosphere is properly maintained. And here I make a reference to the story: often the film adaptations of works are significantly different from the originals. Sometimes they become separate universes. Here the accuracy of history was reproduced by sixty percent, which is almost praiseworthy. It was nice to remember the “book” laundry room and compare it to the “screen”, and also approvingly notice the plot similarity plus the types of characters themselves.
Briefly, I mentioned the pluses of the picture and, again, visually it is impressive, especially in the final. However, it was not without delay, which is not too annoying.
I will highlight just moments that left questions: for example, why run to meet the “pressure” that runs after you? Why does a spiral staircase in the laundry room, which looks very presentable, lead into the sewer? However, even more chic looks the office of the director of the laundry - it is already a choir for the castle. It is amusing to watch a mad master, who lives in such a non-poor room with all the amenities, manages his subordinates in a gloomy, saturated with puddles and steam smoke factory. It was also noticed the moment in which the hero of Inglund for two seconds goes without cranches, with which he moves. On it there are holding glands on the legs, only here is a hitch: a person with paralyzed legs cannot walk a step, he simply does not feel the lower part of the body, so he must immediately fall, having lost his support. Does that make sense?
And to top it off, hello to the writers who remade the story: leaving the main storylines, they added a duet of two villains to them, which is very banal, although here you could easily do without an additional heroine. And the ending was different - similar to the original, but built in a very different way. Already before the credits, after the most enchanting events, he became depressing, and “sucked out of the finger”, because it was unclear why they did this at all.
I had long been going to watch "Push" to compare it with the work, but postponed until the last. However, I do not regret: despite a very good production, it was not worth rushing with disappointment. I will remain neutral.
The machine, with an awakened evil demon inside, who irons and straightens to the last fold not only the laundry, but the laundry workers.
Tobe Hooper's "Pressure" on the one hand is a very accurate adaptation of the story of the same name by Stephen King, but on the other hand there is a lot of new in it. The original story is very small, the material in it would not be enough for a full-length film, so improvisation was simply necessary. Hooper reproduced King’s story in great detail, and to a certain point the film is a literal adaptation.
At the old laundry there is an accident: in the midst of a working day in front of all colleagues, getting into a monstrous mechanism, one of the workers dies. Everything is successfully attributed to the fact that the woman died through her own fault due to a violation of safety rules, the case is not started, and the laundry continues to work as if nothing had happened. But local detective Hunton does not like this story, and he decides to investigate all the details of this strange incident. He begins his own investigation with his friend, and together they come to extraordinary conclusions.
Robert Englund played Mr. Gartley, a very colorful and memorable character, the owner of the laundry room, in which tragic events unfold. This sinister figure causes both disgust and keen interest. In the story, this man was mentioned only casually, we could not know anything about him, so Englund, once again wearing the mask of hell, created his hero from scratch. And I have to admit, he did it well. And the role of a suspicious detective was played by Ted Levine, I was very surprised to learn that he had previously played Buffalo Bill, yes, the very nasty maniac from the immortal Silence of the Lambs.
And what, you might ask, is this arrogance? This is a press for pressing clothes or, more simply, a giant ironing machine, which is actually a diabolical mechanism, hungry for blood. This hellish meat grinder turns its victim into a real mince. And this unit really inspires horror from the screen, so it is realistically built.
Having squeezed everything out of the story, the writers made a serious innovation: a secret society appeared in the city, the theme of which, unfortunately, did not receive proper continuation, although the idea could be a very interesting storyline. Therefore, to some extent, the circumstances in which an evil spirit moves into a crusher look silly, the blood of a virgin, belladonna and other things that, according to occultists, can cause spirits really do not seriously seem.
“Pressure” is an atypical horror film that may well catch its viewer. It is impossible not to notice that the film is low-budget, so all scenes with the use of computer graphics occur in the dark, which in general does not harm him. The undoubted advantages are the gloomy and sometimes oppressive atmosphere and the play of Robert Englud. The disadvantages include excessive tightness, no matter how hard you tried, and the “water” added a lot. And the plot does not claim any complexity, much can be easily predicted, but a couple of moments can surprise, and the spectacular final scene can be amusing, because not everywhere you can see the furious hungry mechanism. But there is no need to expect much horror.
Surprisingly, not enjoying any success, “Davil” got two completely useless sequels that have nothing to do with it, so beware of the fakes of the same name.