to be "up there with [Christine] and [The Shining]" as among the best Stephen King adaptations, "in that it's a stylistic representation of the director's obsessions, not just a boilerplate transposition of his text". Tafoya further lamented that "[i]t's perversely fitting that his greatest failure is about the very machinery of capitalism that would imprison him in the world of low-budget productions.... The Mangler was a kind of oddball film with an unknowable center that had become a rarity in American cinema. That just makes it that much more special". See also Death Bed: The Bed That Eats, another horror film with an inanimate antagonist References External links 1995 films Films based on short fiction Films based on works by Stephen King 1990s supernatural horror films American supernatural horror films South African horror films 1990s English-language films English-language South African films New Line Cinema films Films directed by Tobe Hooper 1990s American films