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04 Aug 2014, 10:18 pm

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Yep, I had to read about that part because it confused me so much. I should read the book! If anyone here has read it, is it any good? I've actually never read a Stephen King novel!


King fans will swear up and down that the book is better than the movie, that the movie totally missed the point of the book and isn't a very good adaptation at all. I've never really understood that. I found the book mediocre at best, and King didn't seem to understand his own story.

People tend to complain that Jack Nicholson is too obviously unhinged at the beginning of the movie, so you know he's going to go crazy later, whereas in the book the ghosts in the hotel are obviously the driving force in Jack turning evil. But if the hotel can possess anyone, why didn't Wendy turn evil? It makes more sense if the hotel brings out whatever evil is already lurking inside you, rather than putting it into you in the first place.

The movie also makes some other improvements, like changing the roque mallet to an axe and replacing the ridiculous scene in which hedge animals come to life with a chase through a hedge maze.

But then I've always found King to be a mediocre writer at best and an awful one at worst, and I gave up on him entirely when I discovered Richard Matheson. King has admitted on countless occasions to ripping off Matheson, so I figured I'd check out the source, and I never looked back. Matheson is like King without all the problems, and I've never regretted reading any of his stuff. Novels like I Am Legend and Hell House are better than anything King could ever dream of writing, and he'd probably be the first person to agree with me on that.


While I'm doubtlessly more charitable in my view of King than you are, I agree he has produced some real stinkers (It, The Tommyknockers, etc) but I absolutely agree that Richard Matheson is a first rate writer.


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05 Aug 2014, 1:30 pm

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Yep, I had to read about that part because it confused me so much. I should read the book! If anyone here has read it, is it any good? I've actually never read a Stephen King novel!


King fans will swear up and down that the book is better than the movie, that the movie totally missed the point of the book and isn't a very good adaptation at all. I've never really understood that. I found the book mediocre at best, and King didn't seem to understand his own story.

People tend to complain that Jack Nicholson is too obviously unhinged at the beginning of the movie, so you know he's going to go crazy later, whereas in the book the ghosts in the hotel are obviously the driving force in Jack turning evil. But if the hotel can possess anyone, why didn't Wendy turn evil? It makes more sense if the hotel brings out whatever evil is already lurking inside you, rather than putting it into you in the first place.

The movie also makes some other improvements, like changing the roque mallet to an axe and replacing the ridiculous scene in which hedge animals come to life with a chase through a hedge maze.

But then I've always found King to be a mediocre writer at best and an awful one at worst, and I gave up on him entirely when I discovered Richard Matheson. King has admitted on countless occasions to ripping off Matheson, so I figured I'd check out the source, and I never looked back. Matheson is like King without all the problems, and I've never regretted reading any of his stuff. Novels like I Am Legend and Hell House are better than anything King could ever dream of writing, and he'd probably be the first person to agree with me on that.


While I'm doubtlessly more charitable in my view of King than you are, I agree he has produced some real stinkers (It, The Tommyknockers, etc) but I absolutely agree that Richard Matheson is a first rate writer.


I've never heard of Matheson, thank you. I will have to read him now.



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05 Aug 2014, 1:36 pm

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Yep, I had to read about that part because it confused me so much. I should read the book! If anyone here has read it, is it any good? I've actually never read a Stephen King novel!


King fans will swear up and down that the book is better than the movie, that the movie totally missed the point of the book and isn't a very good adaptation at all. I've never really understood that. I found the book mediocre at best, and King didn't seem to understand his own story.

People tend to complain that Jack Nicholson is too obviously unhinged at the beginning of the movie, so you know he's going to go crazy later, whereas in the book the ghosts in the hotel are obviously the driving force in Jack turning evil. But if the hotel can possess anyone, why didn't Wendy turn evil? It makes more sense if the hotel brings out whatever evil is already lurking inside you, rather than putting it into you in the first place.

The movie also makes some other improvements, like changing the roque mallet to an axe and replacing the ridiculous scene in which hedge animals come to life with a chase through a hedge maze.

But then I've always found King to be a mediocre writer at best and an awful one at worst, and I gave up on him entirely when I discovered Richard Matheson. King has admitted on countless occasions to ripping off Matheson, so I figured I'd check out the source, and I never looked back. Matheson is like King without all the problems, and I've never regretted reading any of his stuff. Novels like I Am Legend and Hell House are better than anything King could ever dream of writing, and he'd probably be the first person to agree with me on that.


While I'm doubtlessly more charitable in my view of King than you are, I agree he has produced some real stinkers (It, The Tommyknockers, etc) but I absolutely agree that Richard Matheson is a first rate writer.


I've never heard of Matheson, thank you. I will have to read him now.


He's best known for I Am Legend. Please, don't judge the book by the terrible ending of the Will Smith movie. :lol:


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05 Aug 2014, 3:45 pm

As a kid, Pet Semetary really scared me. I watched it again recently tho and it didn't mother me, I enjoyed it actually. Poltergeist was another one that I found pretty freaky as a kid, haven't had a chance to watch that yet.



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05 Aug 2014, 10:09 pm

V/H/S - After watching the first segment of the movie, I realized how bloody and violent it was and decided not to watch the rest, seeing how psychotic the movie is.
Rottweiler - B-Movie, and the Rottweiler's cannibalistic characteristics as a machine is disturbing.
Cloverfield - Seen the movie hundreds of times, and when you see a close up of the monster near the end, it will terrify you.
The Blair Witch Project - Really AMAZING scary movie, but the end will leave you terrified.


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07 Aug 2014, 9:16 am

The Postman. It was horrid
The King and I. I can not understand why it is so popular, I almost died of boredom in school watching that garbage.



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07 Aug 2014, 1:35 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:
russiank12 wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Jory wrote:
russiank12 wrote:
Yep, I had to read about that part because it confused me so much. I should read the book! If anyone here has read it, is it any good? I've actually never read a Stephen King novel!


King fans will swear up and down that the book is better than the movie, that the movie totally missed the point of the book and isn't a very good adaptation at all. I've never really understood that. I found the book mediocre at best, and King didn't seem to understand his own story.

People tend to complain that Jack Nicholson is too obviously unhinged at the beginning of the movie, so you know he's going to go crazy later, whereas in the book the ghosts in the hotel are obviously the driving force in Jack turning evil. But if the hotel can possess anyone, why didn't Wendy turn evil? It makes more sense if the hotel brings out whatever evil is already lurking inside you, rather than putting it into you in the first place.

The movie also makes some other improvements, like changing the roque mallet to an axe and replacing the ridiculous scene in which hedge animals come to life with a chase through a hedge maze.

But then I've always found King to be a mediocre writer at best and an awful one at worst, and I gave up on him entirely when I discovered Richard Matheson. King has admitted on countless occasions to ripping off Matheson, so I figured I'd check out the source, and I never looked back. Matheson is like King without all the problems, and I've never regretted reading any of his stuff. Novels like I Am Legend and Hell House are better than anything King could ever dream of writing, and he'd probably be the first person to agree with me on that.


While I'm doubtlessly more charitable in my view of King than you are, I agree he has produced some real stinkers (It, The Tommyknockers, etc) but I absolutely agree that Richard Matheson is a first rate writer.


I've never heard of Matheson, thank you. I will have to read him now.


He's best known for I Am Legend. Please, don't judge the book by the terrible ending of the Will Smith movie. :lol:


I've never actually seen I Am Legend and it absolutely astounds me that I haven't. All I know about it is that there is a dog that dies.



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07 Aug 2014, 1:39 pm

russiank12 wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
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Kraichgauer wrote:
Jory wrote:
russiank12 wrote:
Yep, I had to read about that part because it confused me so much. I should read the book! If anyone here has read it, is it any good? I've actually never read a Stephen King novel!


King fans will swear up and down that the book is better than the movie, that the movie totally missed the point of the book and isn't a very good adaptation at all. I've never really understood that. I found the book mediocre at best, and King didn't seem to understand his own story.

People tend to complain that Jack Nicholson is too obviously unhinged at the beginning of the movie, so you know he's going to go crazy later, whereas in the book the ghosts in the hotel are obviously the driving force in Jack turning evil. But if the hotel can possess anyone, why didn't Wendy turn evil? It makes more sense if the hotel brings out whatever evil is already lurking inside you, rather than putting it into you in the first place.

The movie also makes some other improvements, like changing the roque mallet to an axe and replacing the ridiculous scene in which hedge animals come to life with a chase through a hedge maze.

But then I've always found King to be a mediocre writer at best and an awful one at worst, and I gave up on him entirely when I discovered Richard Matheson. King has admitted on countless occasions to ripping off Matheson, so I figured I'd check out the source, and I never looked back. Matheson is like King without all the problems, and I've never regretted reading any of his stuff. Novels like I Am Legend and Hell House are better than anything King could ever dream of writing, and he'd probably be the first person to agree with me on that.


While I'm doubtlessly more charitable in my view of King than you are, I agree he has produced some real stinkers (It, The Tommyknockers, etc) but I absolutely agree that Richard Matheson is a first rate writer.


I've never heard of Matheson, thank you. I will have to read him now.


He's best known for I Am Legend. Please, don't judge the book by the terrible ending of the Will Smith movie. :lol:


I've never actually seen I Am Legend and it absolutely astounds me that I haven't. All I know about it is that there is a dog that dies.


Yes, and it's a very sad, touching, well done scene.


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07 Aug 2014, 11:22 pm

I stay away from "torture porn", refuse to watch films like Human Centipede and Salo. And there are plenty of films that have been scary to me -- the original Evil Dead (the non-comedy one), and Blair Witch Project stayed with me for years. But there are a few films that I HAVE seen that I found quite disturbing --

ANYTHING by David Lynch -- I wanted to see more of his work after being so impressed with the TV show Twin Peaks. But the only films I have been able to get all the way through are Eraserhead and Blue Velvet. With the rest, I get more and more weirded out until I have to shut it off.

Ditto David Cronenberg -- the obsession with all things nasty in connection with the human body -- exploding heads, skin tumors, vampiric body orifices -- just turns my stomach.

Films by Lars von Trier -- he has suffered from severe clinical depression his whole life, and it comes through in spade in every film. After each viewing of a von Trier film, I feel like slitting my wrists.

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer -- the film wasn't super gory or particularly graphic, at least not any more so than many other mainstream films about murder. But the general tone of the film -- totally objective and non-judgmental, as if the main character Henry had just set up cameras to document his daily life -- was thoroughly depressing and nihilistic. A film I'm glad I saw, but have no intention of ever seeing again.

Deliverance -- may be the most horrific non-horror film ever made. From the early scenes of the inbred mountain people to the backwoods sodomizing of one of the main characters (how Ned Beatty didn't run screaming from the movie business after that I'll never know) to the characters fighting for their lives in the climax - the whole film is filled with apprehension and dread.

Night of the Living Dead -- the original 1968 George Romero film. It's not on my list because of the flesh-eating zombies, although that is indeed shocking, at least was at the time I saw it. But rather the downbeat ending is what puts it here (no spoilers in case there is still someone in the known universe who hasn't seen it yet.)


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07 Aug 2014, 11:58 pm

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I stay away from "torture porn", refuse to watch films like Human Centipede and Salo. And there are plenty of films that have been scary to me -- the original Evil Dead (the non-comedy one), and Blair Witch Project stayed with me for years. But there are a few films that I HAVE seen that I found quite disturbing --

ANYTHING by David Lynch -- I wanted to see more of his work after being so impressed with the TV show Twin Peaks. But the only films I have been able to get all the way through are Eraserhead and Blue Velvet. With the rest, I get more and more weirded out until I have to shut it off.

Ditto David Cronenberg -- the obsession with all things nasty in connection with the human body -- exploding heads, skin tumors, vampiric body orifices -- just turns my stomach.

Films by Lars von Trier -- he has suffered from severe clinical depression his whole life, and it comes through in spade in every film. After each viewing of a von Trier film, I feel like slitting my wrists.

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer -- the film wasn't super gory or particularly graphic, at least not any more so than many other mainstream films about murder. But the general tone of the film -- totally objective and non-judgmental, as if the main character Henry had just set up cameras to document his daily life -- was thoroughly depressing and nihilistic. A film I'm glad I saw, but have no intention of ever seeing again.

Deliverance -- may be the most horrific non-horror film ever made. From the early scenes of the inbred mountain people to the backwoods sodomizing of one of the main characters (how Ned Beatty didn't run screaming from the movie business after that I'll never know) to the characters fighting for their lives in the climax - the whole film is filled with apprehension and dread.

Night of the Living Dead -- the original 1968 George Romero film. It's not on my list because of the flesh-eating zombies, although that is indeed shocking, at least was at the time I saw it. But rather the downbeat ending is what puts it here (no spoilers in case there is still someone in the known universe who hasn't seen it yet.)


You and I are polar opposites in our choices of movies, then.


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08 Aug 2014, 12:01 am

Kraichgauer wrote:
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I stay away from "torture porn", refuse to watch films like Human Centipede and Salo. And there are plenty of films that have been scary to me -- the original Evil Dead (the non-comedy one), and Blair Witch Project stayed with me for years. But there are a few films that I HAVE seen that I found quite disturbing --

ANYTHING by David Lynch -- I wanted to see more of his work after being so impressed with the TV show Twin Peaks. But the only films I have been able to get all the way through are Eraserhead and Blue Velvet. With the rest, I get more and more weirded out until I have to shut it off.

Ditto David Cronenberg -- the obsession with all things nasty in connection with the human body -- exploding heads, skin tumors, vampiric body orifices -- just turns my stomach.

Films by Lars von Trier -- he has suffered from severe clinical depression his whole life, and it comes through in spade in every film. After each viewing of a von Trier film, I feel like slitting my wrists.

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer -- the film wasn't super gory or particularly graphic, at least not any more so than many other mainstream films about murder. But the general tone of the film -- totally objective and non-judgmental, as if the main character Henry had just set up cameras to document his daily life -- was thoroughly depressing and nihilistic. A film I'm glad I saw, but have no intention of ever seeing again.

Deliverance -- may be the most horrific non-horror film ever made. From the early scenes of the inbred mountain people to the backwoods sodomizing of one of the main characters (how Ned Beatty didn't run screaming from the movie business after that I'll never know) to the characters fighting for their lives in the climax - the whole film is filled with apprehension and dread.

Night of the Living Dead -- the original 1968 George Romero film. It's not on my list because of the flesh-eating zombies, although that is indeed shocking, at least was at the time I saw it. But rather the downbeat ending is what puts it here (no spoilers in case there is still someone in the known universe who hasn't seen it yet.)


You and I are polar opposites in our choices of movies, then.


LOL...and that's totally OK. That's why there are so many movie and movie directors out there.


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08 Aug 2014, 12:06 am

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09 Aug 2014, 1:03 am

Holy Mother of Pearl! How did I leave out Requiem for a Dream!?! The last 1/2 hour of this film is nightmarish in its depiction of the horrible results of drug addiction.


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Holy Mother of Pearl! How did I leave out Requiem for a Dream!?! The last 1/2 hour of this film is nightmarish in its depiction of the horrible results of drug addiction.


Agreed, 150%! !! !!


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12 Aug 2014, 9:29 am

The Thing (1982) and all of the Final Destination films



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12 Aug 2014, 11:19 am

Jacob's Ladder. That movie was one of the inspirations for Silent Hill, and it shows. Where to start? The hospital scene where it shifts into the Otherworld (wink wink), the creepy, fleshy demon creatures. Silence of the Lambs is horrifying on so many levels. Does Marble Hornets count, too? Because that whole series is an example of how to be terrifying on a low budget. Pan's Labyrinth was both depressing and creepy, and The Shining now counts as I've now seen it.