Stephen King Movies

[chrisnurse]

Salem's Lot , Stand by Me, The Shining ,The Dead Zone, The Shining - I love these films.

[JohnBolesGal]

Salem's Lot, The Shining, Pet Semetary and Creepshow are some of my faves. When I was younger my mom and I and some of her friends took a trip to Maine. We went to Bar Harbor and saw Stephen King's houseboat. That was crazy because we went canoeing on that lake and here comes a whole group of bats flying over our heads. The lake even looked like the lake in "The Raft" segment of Creepshow so that made it doubly eerie.

When I was older and Pet Semetary came out, my mom had bought the book. So that year I took it to my grandparents and read it there (they lived in Florida). My grandma couldn't understand how I could read that "scary stuff." I was only 12 when I was reading it - but it was one of those books that all I wanted to do was read it and do nothing else. I can still hear her now.."Krissy, put down that book and help me with the dishes!"....

[Scary Terry]

Great commentary on Kubrick's "The Shining," Matt!  I've been staunchly defending that remarkable film from its detractors for many a year.  It has a disturbing, pulsing, hypnotic quality that few other films can match.  It's not a traditional horror film, out to scare you with a few "boo" moments -- its up to something far more visceral than that -- and takes great liberties with the source material -- so I understand why some don't like it.  But I think they're mistaken when make the leap from "I don't like it" to "It's a terrible movie."

And my two cents is that Jack is going insane -- but the supernatural elements are (in the context of the film) quite real.