Dolores Claiborne is a bit hard to describe. The term feminist horror film seems like an oxymoron. To be sure, there is little to no gore here. But horror there is a aplenty although what kind is hard to understand. The film has Kathy Bates return as the title character. Dolores is under arrest and charged with murdering her employer, Vera. Her daughter, Selena, returns to stand by her side. But Dolore and her have unresolved issues.
Without giving too much plot twists away, the drama is on our believing Dolores, as tough and unlovable as she is, is no murderer but director Taylor Hackford provides some cunning and subtle clues that Dolores has a more complicated past than she lets on. A tough-as-nails cop, Detective John Mackey (Christopher Plummer), doesn’t buy Dolores claim to be innocent and makes us genuinely wonder just who can be trusted in this murder mystery.
No ghosts or ghouls in the explicit sense are here. Instead King has us concentrate on existential terrors as communicated by deep class and regional divisions.
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