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  • TNT
  • Nov 30, 2005
  • TNT
  • Nov 30, 2005
Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King

Summary Featuring episodes adapted from stories in the book of the same name, as well as some from other works by Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes is an eight-episode anthology miniseries that originally aired on TNT in summer 2006. William Hurt, William H. Macy, and Tom Berenger are just a few of the stars who appear in the macabre tale...

  • TNT
  • Nov 30, 2005
  • TNT
  • Nov 30, 2005
Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King
Season 1
Season Premiere: Nov 30, 2005
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
71
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Summary Featuring episodes adapted from stories in the book of the same name, as well as some from other works by Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes is an eight-episode anthology miniseries that originally aired on TNT in summer 2006. William Hurt, William H. Macy, and Tom Berenger are just a few of the stars who appear in the macabre tale...

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Episode 1 • Nov 30, 2005 • 53 m
Battleground
An assassin is besieged in his apartment by an Army of toy soldiers after killing their maker.
Episode 2 • Jul 12, 2006 • 44 m
Crouch End
An American couple in London gets lost in an abandoned part of the city where a terrifying Lovecraftian dimension seeps into our own.
Episode 3 • Jul 19, 2006 • 51 m
Umney's Last Case
After the death of his son, writer Sam Landry is so desperate to lead another life, he writes himself into his own book, forcing his long-time character to change places with him and live in the modern day.
Episode 4 • Jul 19, 2006 • 44 m
The End of the Whole Mess
The world had changed. Violence, war and hatred have been eliminated and replaced with kindness, peace and love. But at what price?
Episode 5 • Jul 26, 2006 • 43 m
The Road Virus Heads North
A popular but terminally ill horror author returning to his old stomping grounds with an eerie painting in tow is greeted by agitated dogs at every stop and death follows in his wake.
Episode 6 • Jul 26, 2006 • 46 m
The Fifth Quarter
Willie, a just-released convict, learns from his dying friend of a map in four parts that reveals the location of $3.5 million from a robbery.
Episode 7 • Aug 2, 2006 • 43 m
Autopsy Room Four
Howard Cottrell is on vacation playing golf. Chasing the ball into the undergrowth, he's bitten by a snake and completely paralyzed, showing no sign of life. At the hospital, unable to communicate, he is the key witness to his own autopsy.
Episode 8 • Aug 2, 2006 • 43 m
You Know They Got a Hell of a Band
A husband and wife are road tripping and take a wrong turn on the highway only to end up in a town where it's both Heaven and Hell all at once and everything is both what it seems like and not what it seems like at the same time.

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Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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27% Mixed
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27% Mixed
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90
May 4, 2021
Bouncing between bloody good and bloody brilliant. [12 July 2006, p.D1]
By Mark Dawidziak
83
May 4, 2021
The production values are exceedingly high, and you could find worse excuses to stay up past your bedtime. [12 July 2006, p.038]
By Mark A. Perigard
75
May 4, 2021
Rarely does a TV series premiere as pitch-perfect as "Nightmares & Dreamscapes." But often does a second installment deflate as disappointingly as the subsequent second hour of this summer anthology of mystical imagination adapted from the stories of Stephen King...While the bubble doesn't burst completely, the bravura filmmaking of tonight's first hour sets a standard that's difficult to match on a regular basis, much less in the hour that airs immediately after. It's a "wow!" that's likely to stand as one of TV's most mesmerizing hours of the year. [12 July 2006, p.B21]
By Diane Werts
75
May 3, 2021
Brian Henson directed this self-contained, one-hour telefilm whose story is cleverly told, though it contains not one word of dialogue.
FULL REVIEW
70
May 3, 2021
If Stephen King had written "The Twilight Zone," it would have looked like this. This eight-part anthology — two hourlong episodes each Wednesday for four weeks — adapts eight King stories for TV with pretty good results.
By Scott D. Pierce FULL REVIEW
50
May 3, 2021
Despite some highlights, this foray into “The Twilight Zone” territory mostly lacks the requisite punch Showtime’s “Masters of Horror” delivered, primarily owing to episodes with inadequate payoffs. Limited series should spur curiosity among King acolytes, but too few of the installments really pop creatively.
By Brian Lowry FULL REVIEW
40
May 4, 2021
The first hour, "Battleground" with William Hurt, is brilliant, but the next three are repetitive, talky or derivative. [9 July 2006, p.10]
By Hal Boedeker

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