Favorite Stephen King movie

[knife_fight]

Kubrick's version of The Shining. followed by Pet Sematary. I like the classics too, though (Carrie, etc.). They're just not faves.

[juanhacko]

Rose Red--I just finished watching it.

[Lirael]

Originally posted by gnarly
did eny one realise that the old guy in the creepshow
is the same guy in tales from the crypt only dead ?

Sorry no one really answered this. Actually Creepshow was a comic and the cryptkeeper was stole from that comic. So basicly they are one in the same.:D My brother actually had a couple of those comics. Tales from the crypt was also turned into a short lived comic.

I also liked Cat's eye

[slasherman]

Originally posted by Lirael
Sorry no one really answered this. Actually Creepshow was a comic and the cryptkeeper was stole from that comic. So basicly they are one in the same.:D My brother actually had a couple of those comics. Tales from the crypt was also turned into a short lived comic.

I also liked Cat's eye

Wasnt the comics for creepshow produced after the movie ?...

[EXTR3MIST]

Cat's Eye is great - for once, every instalment of an anthology actually delivers.

Favourite bits: James Woods' tobacco-nightmare sequence and watching his wife dance about to electric shocks, the entire episode of Robert Hays inching around the building ("...you flying shithouse!") and the cat/gremlin battle near the end.

[dr. pheobs]

the shining followed by misery

-Pet Semetary
-Carrie
-IT
-Stand by Me
-The Shining
-Misery

I also liked Secret Window, but not as much as the others I mentioned.

~sidebar~ Has anyone seen the version of The Shining that is 6 hours long (like a miniseries)? Well anyone who's a big fan of the book should read it because unlike Stanley Kubrick's version of it, it follows the book almost 100%. I just watched it a couple of days ago and although no one can hold a candle to Jack Nicholson's performance in the original Shining, if you've seen the miniseries, you gotta admit it's a better, more explaining, story. Possibly because Stephen King actually had a bigger role in the actual MAKING of this film.

P.S. I also love the miniseries Kingdom Hospital (even though it wasn't a very original idea of Stephen King's.)

[TheOmen]

sidebar~ Has anyone seen the version of The Shining that is 6 hours long (like a miniseries)? Well anyone who's a big fan of the book should read it because unlike Stanley Kubrick's version of it, it follows the book almost 100%. I just watched it a couple of days ago and although no one can hold a candle to Jack Nicholson's performance in the original Shining, if you've seen the miniseries, you gotta admit it's a better, more explaining, story. Possibly because Stephen King actually had a bigger role in the actual MAKING of this film.

P.S. I also love the miniseries Kingdom Hospital (even though it wasn't a very original idea of Stephen King's.)

No, it is not better. It's hideous. The Shining by Kubrick is 20 times better than the miniseries. And yes, huge fans of the book may find it truer, but for fans of MOVIES, The Shining is much superior.

And I'm quite certain Stephen King being involved in the actual MAKING of the film is a hinderance. Anytime he's involved, i.e. Max. Overdrive, the results are laughable.

I also see you put TCM 2003 version as your favorite horror movie, so that explains a lot.

[bloodrayne]

Originally posted by HorrorJunkie17
~sidebar~ Has anyone seen the version of The Shining that is 6 hours long (like a miniseries)? Well anyone who's a big fan of the book should read it because unlike Stanley Kubrick's version of it, it follows the book almost 100%. I just watched it a couple of days ago and although no one can hold a candle to Jack Nicholson's performance in the original Shining, if you've seen the miniseries, you gotta admit it's a better, more explaining, story. Possibly because Stephen King actually had a bigger role in the actual MAKING of this film.

Stephen King did this because he never really cared for Stanley Kubrick's version...He said that it left too much of the story out...He was ESPECIALLY pissed off about downplaying the boiler threat...King has to have at LEAST 2 ominous factors in his stories working simultaneously...You know like, if the rabid dog doesn't get you, heat and suffocation will, that sort of thing...There are examples of the 'second element' in EVERY ONE of Stephen King's stories...If it hadn't bothered him SO much, and for SO long...This second version would never have been made...It "follows the book almost 100%" because that was its purpose...

King loved Jack's performance though...As well as Shelley Duvall's

No one can argue with Nicholson's skill in this movie...I truly believe that Jack Nicholson's performance ALONE is what kept King from just telling Kubrick, "Fuck it, I hate it, you ruined, I'm not allowing you to do it"

Christine

Carrie

Silver Bullet

It

Dead Zone

Stand By Me

Green Mile

all good and I to would love to see The Mist turned into a movie.