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Written : 4th February - 10th April 2003
Mr. King helped me again. The
title 'The Dreamcatcher' stemmed from the title of his novel
'Dreamcatcher', and that's all they have in common, I swear. The
whole idea of 'The Dreamcatcher' was, in a way, inspired by his
novel 'It'. The decision to call the unknown evil force it
stems from that book.
In the redux version, there are a number of Stephen King
connotations. The roads Derry Road and King Street are called so
for a reason.
Part I : False Security
The title 'False Security' is pretty self-explanatory.
The idea of a little, murdered boy festering in the wood was
inspired by a similar scene in 'The Shining', where Danny is
playing in a concrete tube. The claustrophobia he feels inside
that tube makes him conjure up images of a disembodied child
coming after him, trying to get him to stay and play with him.
As you can probably guess, the demonic Buttercup/Riku is inspired
by the Overlook-possessed Jack Torrance. The phrase, 'take their
medicine', is nicked from 'The Shining'.
The wasps that attack Bubbles/Mariko was also inspired by 'The
Shining'. The merging, however, was my idea.
Part II : Amber Alert
So called because it conveys the medium sense of danger. You know
traffic lights? Green, amber, red?
During the scene with Buttercup's/Riku's SHC, the images used are
real. The first one is a photograph taken in the apartment of
Mary Reeser, who went up in flames in either 1950 or 1951.
Scientists were baffled by the little damage inflicted upon the
rest of the apartment. The second is from some random, unknown
film I saw once, but was also kind of inspired by Stephen King's
'Firestarter'. The third is the picture of Quang Duc, the
Buddhist monk who burned himself to death in protest against the
Vietnam War. The final one is the very photo that made me afraid
of SHC, and its contents belong(ed) to a doctor from
Pennysylvania who burned to ashes in 1966. I can't remember his
name, but look in any good book on the paranormal, and it will be
there.
The beckoning utterance from the children of 'come play with us'
is taken from the film of 'The Shining'.
Part III : Götterdämmerung
Many people won't know what this word means. It's a
German word meaning 'twilight of the gods', and is used in
English to mean the downfall of the once high and mighty. It's
also the title of an opera by Wagner, the world's fifth most
famous Nazi (after Hitler, Mugabe, Göring and David Bowie).
The temporarily psychotic Buttercup/Riku is, again, inspired by
Jack Torrance.
The cannibal that attacks Buttercup/Riku was inspired by the
'dogman' in 'The Shining'.
The chant of 'kill the girl, cut her throat, spill her blood' is
a paraphrase of one from 'Lord of the Flies'.
The character of Abraham McKenzie is inspired by that of Dick
Hallorann in 'The Shining'.
In Buttercup's/Riku's dream, some buildings are described as
'peeling apart like oranges as they crashed to the floor'. This
was inspired by the collapse of the North Tower during the
September 11th atrocities.
Buttercup's/Riku's murderous hunt through the house was evidently
inspired by 'The Shining'. The lines, 'I'm not gonna hurt you...I'm
just gonna bash your brains in...I'm gonna bash 'em right the
hell in!' are taken from the film.