Needful Things

Genre: Horror

Worldwide gross$15.2M

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.

🏆 1 win & 7 nominations total

Genres

Crime, Drama, Fantasy

Director

Fraser C. Heston

Cast

Max von Sydow, Ed Harris, Bonnie Bedelia

Released

27 August 1993

Runtime

2h 1m

Certificate

R

IMDb rating

6.3 / 10

Votes

29,742

Metascore

43

Rotten Tomatoes

33%

Box office

$15,185,672

Edition

Base