I have always been a fan of Stephen King movies. I love the feeling of being frightened half to death. I saw "It" and hated clowns since, "Doloras Claiborne" and was scared about having a stalker for two weeks afterwards, "Carrie" and thought I was going to die at my prom and "Pet Sematary" speaks for itself. Each of them freaked me out, in the good way that scary movies are supposed to by making you not want to sleep just yet. Now, with the recent book-turned-movie "Dreamcatcher," audiences everywhere are screaming about aliens on earth. Signature signs of spreading the color red, animals that know what's going on before humans and people making stupid mistakes are all a part of this grotesque and horrifying film about aliens taking over the world. A running comment in the movie is SSDD: "Same shit, different day." Well, I don't know about you, but aliens sure don't happen every day or even every other.

The movie centers around a group of four guys who grew up together and go on a hunting trip in northern Maine. When Gary "Jonesy" Jones (Damian Lewis, of TV's "Band of Brothers"), comes upon a stranger lost in the woods, he brings him back to their cabin.

This starts off a series of events that brings back the four men's childhood friend Duddits (Donnie Walhberg, of "A Perfect Storm") who teaches them tricks like telepathy. The four pals, Jonesy, Dr. Henry Devlin (Thomas Jane, of "The Sweetest Thing"), Joe "Beaver" Clarendon (Jason Lee, of "Big Trouble") and Pete Moore (Tymothy Olyphant, of "Head Over Heels") battle an alien that wants to pollute the main drinking water source for Boston with little eggs and worms.

The odd man out who doesn't really know the whole story but thinks he does is Colonel Abraham Curtis (Morgan Freeman, of "The Shawshank Redemption"). He has been fighting these aliens for over ten years, and most of his troupes think he is going crazy (which of course he is). He has become overly obsessive, power hungry and has developed a very short fuse in the anger department.

Of course, he has no idea that certain events have been set in motion, and if they are not stopped the world is doomed. His big ego does not allow him to believe what Henry tells them after he is captured. Luckily for Henry, the Colonel's second-in-command who was just promoted, Captain Owen Underhill (Tom Sizemore of "Big Trouble"), believes him and helps him escape so that they can find Duddits and Jonesy and save the world.

This was definitely one of the more consistently amusing Stephen King adaptations, and the cinematography was outstanding. The scenery is picturesque with snow-covered trees for miles around and the perfectly-made dreamcatcher that hangs in the cabin. At the same time, herds of animals walk away from some unknown source of fear. Their desperate effort to get away provokes a constant train of thought from Jonesy: "It's not where they are going that scares me, it's what are they running from."

"Dreamcatcher" is definitely a must-see movie for anyone who loves to be terrified and kept in suspense. This film is a great pick for a dark and stormy night.