Perhaps due to the talent of everyone involved, Dreamcatcher moves with an oddly exhilarating awfulness that sets it apart from more run-of-the-mill horror films, which lack the imagination and budget to be so thoroughly misconceived.

Dreamcatcher is unspeakably bad -- and shockingly so -- considering that it's an adaptation of a Stephen King novel, from the director of The Big Chill (Lawrence Kasdan) and the writer of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (William Goldman).

Dreamcatcher is pretty much a special-effects movie, with uneven results.

A fascinating, baffling mess. You'll spend every minute of Dreamcatcher's interminable 134-minute runtime wondering how no one halted production to ask if any of this was actually any good.