![]() ![]() ![]() Except The Langoliers languished in obscurity.Īnd then there is the matter of Bronson Pinchot’s character Craig Toomy, who is in many ways a precursor to Ethan Rom, William Mapother’s resident creep from Lost. ![]() The Langoliers becomes the televisual equivalent of the tonal dichotomy presented by Kubrick’s adaptation of The Shining: absurd melodrama, inexplicably matched up with a deeply unsettling existential terror. The monsters, depicted in all their '90s-era CGI glory, look grotesquely artificial, but nonetheless have a creepy uncanniness to them. The writing is ridiculous in The Langoliers, and the performances are over the top Holland is obviously better at horror titles with elements of camp and comedy, and The Langoliers should be serious and laden with dread. ![]() While The Langoliers doesn’t offer the kind of lovable, three-dimensional characters we are so familiar with from Lost, it does offer mystery and spookiness galore, and anticipated the weirdly popular 'missing airplane' TV series of the ensuing decades ( Lost, Manifest, Yellowjackets, Missing Nine, Flight 29 Down, The Wilds). Related: Best Stephen King Books and Stories That Haven't Been Made Into a Movie ![]()
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