I enjoyed secret window. it was expected, but i cant fault a guy who's character kills someone by decapitating him with a shovel.

The irony is, it IS the dark half part 2, complete with timothy hutton :D

King wouldn't be King without writing about writers - he can still engross the reader by masterfully (and it seems naturally) tapping into new interesting elements of the psyche with most of his attempts, and if all we had to read was Dean Koontz's daft rats, Clive Barker's pretentious nightbreeds or Anne Rice's snotty vampires then I'd give up on horror fiction altogether.

I love that movie lol.. can't help it::
heh heh heh heh
anyone seen the animatics? they're fucking hilarious! a sims depp character who looks like he belongs on the game for n64 goldeneye molests the corn at the end, and the corpses have white bodies. By the way, that's one haught pic of king lol.

TSecret Window was exactly what I expected. So I wasn't disappointed, nor overjoyed. Just another ho-hum daptation of another ho-hum story.


Ann Rice's snotty vamps are better ( until/including Memnoch) than anything King has in his arsenal. Especially in the last 15 years. And any King movie adaptation best have a very capable director and screenwriter or it will be shit. If King is involved in one aspect of production, the movie just plain sucks...

His recent short story collection Everything's Eventual is a good one - rather than rely on solid mythical creatures (like Rice and her vampires) or whacky surrealism and monsters (like Barker) King's stories can still take the reader into unpredictable territory without resorting to "clever" techniques (witness the new added control on the vehicle in The Tommyknockers: "Left, Right and... up?".

From Everything's Eventual, read The Death Room - simple, daring, and immensely satisfying.

i havent read Rice but I used to read Barker ... he was once ok but he never knew how to end a story. He became very King-ish in his style too.

I think the problem might be in the genre itself .. its hard to develop new ideas - everything has been done over and over again .. sometimes with slight variations .. or sometimes its a direct rehashing (Stephen King).
I stopped reading horror years ago .. i couldnt stand it any more. The only writers who broke the mold usually did so by churning out some incomprehensible personal nightmare that was impossible to relate to. Or they combine trace elements of horror with the other genres which is at least a little more origional and entertaining.

I've read Herbert, MCCammeron (sp. ?) Strawb, and a couple dozen other authors and i keep seeing the same old crap over and over again.

But Stephen King ... i'll never read another word from that guys keyboard again.
I couldnt get more than 20 pages into that smug piece of shit he wrote with strawb last (bleak house, or dark house or something like that)

Never again ...

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lol

I love Stephen King

p.s that picture was the perfect thing to egg urge on, newb. :D

I like Stephens books.....well some. And it sucks to hear that Secret Window blew a fat one because i love John Turturro(sp?).
He was great in O Brother Where Art Thou, Anger Management, and all the other movies hes been in..

Barton Fink....:D

dont get me wrong, the actors all do fine jobs -
but the big twist was obvious from the first knock on the door.

maybe it's different if you are a younger person ...but when you hit my age and you've had an active interest in all things horror ...
you end up seeing the same shit over and over again and you get sick of it.

thats why i am so fond of the books/movies/music that turns the genre on its ear .. gives us a suprise for a change.

you can see King coming a mile away every time.