Needful Things
- IMDb link: 0107665
- IMDb rating: 6.3 (30,380 votes)
- Genres: Horror, Thriller, Crime, Drama, Fantasy
- Director: Ed Harris, Fraser C. Heston
- Cast: Bonnie Bedelia, Max von Sydow, Amanda Plummer and others
- Release date: 27 Aug 1993
- Release year: 1993
- Runtime: 121 minutes
- Country: Canada, United States
- Keywords: manipulation, occult, antique shop, based on book, based on novel, watching tv, figurine, breaking a figurine, two word title, rottweiler
Plot:
Castle Rock, New England, is a nice place to live and grow and Sheriff Alan Pangborn moves from the big city to the town expecting a quiet life. When Leland Gaunt opens the store Needful Things, he seems to have the object of desire for each dweller. He charges small amounts to the things but requests a practical joke for each of them against another inhabitant. Soon hell breaks loose in town with deaths, violence and riot and Sheriff Pangborn discovers that Leland Gaunt is the devil himself. Further, Gaunt is manipulating the population like puppets exploring the weakness and greed of each person.