I have to disagree...
I'm not into any of King's stuff really, yea carrie was pretty cool but not too good.
I think with this movie, for soeone who is not used to kings writings or movies, the movie keeps you guessing, whch a lot of good movies do. It leaves incredible twists that throw off what ever ur guess was for the movie. I don't care who you are, that was a good movie and it was not a role you really expected Depp to play because of prior films, but he was great and I commend his role.