BIG LOSER, SMALL WINNER.('Dreamcatcher' and 'Raising Victor Vargas')(Movie Review)

In "Dreamcatcher,"the new big-budget horror film from Warner Bros., based on a novel by Stephen King and directed by Lawrence Kasdan, an abominable worm shows up, the kind of horror-film beast with more teeth than William F. Buckley and an infinite ability to commit mayhem and then reproduce itself. About three feet long, tubular and slithering, the creature enters people's bodies and tears through their guts, or it attacks them from outside, grabbing at their faces, necks, and genitals. All in all, it's not a bad worm, but, of course, we've seen it before. For more than twenty years, we've been seeing it--sometimes as something large and scaly, rearing up and exhaling ...