Knowing that Andy is capable of very dangerous things, Charles has to go against his own wife and stop his own son from killing again. However, even when presented with facts that prove that her son is not quite himself, Christine stills protects him. When the body of a trucker is discovered and the police calculate the time of death as the night that Andy arrived at home, Charles starts to get suspicious, and his suspicions are confirmed as the body count around town begins to rise. When he does go out, he covers his entire body in clothing and wears dark sunglasses. However, Andy is not his old self, as he prefers to sit alone in the house and refuses to eat, sleep or be social. Later that night, Andy shows up at home, very much alive and in uniform, and the family chalks the mistake up to a clerical error and enjoy their relief. Andy’s sister, Cathy (screenwriter Alan Ormsby’s then-wife Anya Ormsby) and Charles begin to grieve, but Christine refuses to accept the fact that her son is dead. Back home, his mother Christine (Lynn Carlin from Faces) and father Charles (John Marley, who is most well known for waking up next to a horse’s head in The Godfather) get a visit from an army representative who informs them that Andy has been killed in action. In his dying moments, he hears his mother’s voice in his mind telling him not to die because he promised that he’d come back.
Although it draws inspiration from the same place, director Bob Clark’s 1974 film Deathdream starts at the end of the classic story, showing what would happen if the door was opened.ĭeathdream takes places during the Vietnam War, where an American soldier named Andy Brooks (Richard Backus, who played Barry Ryan on “Ryan’s Hope”) gets shot.
Jacobs’ short story about wishes-gone-bad, “The Monkey’s Paw,” has been adapted into several effective films, but most of them stop when the story ends, when the mother has wished her dead son back to life and he knocks on the door.
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