The six teens believe they are immune to the plague however, since they had previously contracted the “Hong Kong” flu, a milder strain. The entire world has felt the wrath of the “Trips”, with death tolls reaching some 100 million. This modern black plague turns its victims into zombie-like wraiths before ultimately killing them. Six teens take refuge at a vacation home in Maine from a deadly strain of flu known as “Captain Trips”. The plot of “Night Surf” is similar to that of Dreamcatcher in the way that all King stories are similar, though conspicuously missing any “s**t weasels” (see Dreamcatcher, actually please don’t). Based on King’s short story of the same title, “Night Surf” is pure King: a near future, apocalyptic tale of teenagers, isolation, paranoia, and death.
Compared to that debacle, the short film “Night Surf”, while flawed, seems like a mini-masterpiece. It was the kind of big-budget train wreck only talented craftsmen could have made. The result was Hollywood at its bloated, burping worst. Most recently, Lawrence Kasdan (!) and William Goldman (!!) took a shot at bringing King’s first post-accident effort, the ridiculous Dreamcatcher to the big screen. Though it has also backfired, sometimes quite spectacularly. When successful, the King formula has led to many excellent entries in the genre (too numerous to name here). The ever fertile imagination of Stephen King continues to produce Hollywood fodder on an unprecedented basis, for better or worse.
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