Stephen King IT

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In 1960, seven outcast kids known as "The Loser Club" fight an evil demon who poses as a child-killing clown. 30 years later, they are called back to fight the same clown again.



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Originally titled Stephen King's 'It', this two-part TV movie first aired on November 18 and 20, 1990. Set in Maine (where else?), this is the story of a thirty-year struggle against supernatural evil. We follow a group of young men who calls themselves "the lucky seven" from 1960 to 1990. The Seven emerge triumphant from their first encounter with Pennywise (Tim Curry), a clown-suited horror who calls himself "the eater of worlds...and of children". But it's 1990, and Pennywise is back in circulation. Like so many Stephen King TV adaptations, It starts like a house afire, sags in the middle, and must scurry around to tie up loose ends in its last 45 minutes or so.


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A really great horror movie leaves a lasting impression on a person. Jaws, for example, still makes me wary of going in the water (even a pool!), and The Blair Witch Project comes to mind every time someone mentions “camping”. Out of all the great horror movies, though, Stephen Kings It in particular has left a lasting mark on me.

A little back-story: I remember when I was about six years old and my brothers and I were put to bed as usual. As my mother was tucking us in she made a HUGE mistake and warned us not to get out of bed whatever we did because she was watching a movie that she didn't want us to see. Of course that just made me want to sneak out of bed.

I waited a while and snuck into the living room. Hiding behind the couch where she couldn't see me I tried to see what the big taboo on TV was. It must have been about a minute later that I was completely horrified by what I saw and ran out of the room screaming.

For years after that I was horrified of clowns, dark places and...... the bathroom! I couldn't even bring myself to watch It all the way through until I was fourteen, and then I loved it!

The movie Stephen Kings It, which was originally a TV movie released in as a mini-series in 1990, is actually quite subdued by most horror standards. The violence is minimal, and there is little blood, yet tons of scares. It is also quite long (192min!) but keeps your attention, especially the first half.

Stephen Kings It begins when a little girl, while in her yard in the sleepy, rainy townof Derry, Maine, is murdered by a mysterious clown called “Pennywise” who appears literally out of nowhere.

Later, while at the crime scene, the librarian Mike Hanlon (Tim Reid) notices something weird…a picture of his childhood friend's little brother who was murdered in 1960. Mike immediately calls all of his old friends and tells them the news: “HE’s back”.

From this point the movie jumps between each character’s current life and flashbacks of their own personal childhood encounters with the violent, tormenting spirit Pennywise the Clown (Tim Curry in possibly his best role). The clown spirit uses children’s greatest fears against them by bringing them to reality. Mike convinces each member of the "old gang"(which includes John Ritter, Harry Anderson and Annette O'Toole) to agree reluctantly to come back to Derry to fight Pennywise...except for one. Stan Uris (Richard Masur) decides he would rather end his own lifethan go back to Derry and have to face the demons of his past, leaving the group of friends minus one vital member.

Once back in Derry the gang confirms that Pennywise the clown is indeed up to his old tricks again, and chaos abounds - complete with hallucinations, attacks and near deaths. The group must find out what Pennywise really is, and destroy “It”.

I will admit that while Stephen Kings It is fantastic, the ending is a bit of a letdown. We know that Pennywise is not human from the beginning, but we are not quite sure exactly what he actually is until the end of the movie, and even then it is very confusing no matter how many times you watch It. The history of Pennywise and of Derry itself, when revealed, is truly frightening though. Tim Curry, as the clown Pennywise, is also very frightening and believable in this role of a lifetime.

While not acceptable for all ages, I highly recommend Stephen Kings It, especially if want a good horror movie to watch on a rainy afternoon or night. Or for an even bigger scare, read the bookon a rainy afternoon or night, because although the movie is scary, the book will keep you up at night.

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Thinner

Stephen King



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A lawyer is cursed by a gypsy to lose weight...and lose weight...and lose weight...


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After morbidly obese lawyer Billy Halleck accidentally runs over a mysterious gypsy woman, he finds himself cursed with his fondest wish -- to lose weight. Unfortunately, in true Stephen King fashion, Billy soon discovers that his weight loss is to be permanent and that if he cannot find the long-gone gypsy band he wronged, soon he will literally waste away to nothing.

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The Mangler

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A hellish piece of professional laundry equipment wreaks havoc in a tiny New England town in this horror film. It all begins in The Blue Ribbon Laundry, a place run by the ruthless, crippled old Bill Gartley. With no feelings at all for his employees, he demands absolute obedience and unrelenting hard work. One day an old speed iron goes crazy, sucks in and permanently presses a hapless worker. The rest of the crew is frightened and in shock, but this does not stop old Gartley from cruelly ordering them back to work. A police officer investigates the case and begins suspecting that the sinister owner is concealing something. When a boy suffocates in an abandoned refrigerator that had somehow come in contact with the speed iron, the cop calls in his friend the theoretical parapsychologist who deduces that there is a "transference of evil" going on. Meanwhile, Gartley is putting the moves on comely Lin Sue; he also is interested in messing with his own niece. Both girls have been harmed by the evil iron and have contributed some of their precious blood to it. It is the cop who discovers that in order for Gartley to remain successful, he must see that the demonic machine periodically receives such sacrificial donations.

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A Humorous-Allegory of the Evils of Capitalism

Author: Matthew Janovic (myboigie@earthlink.net) from United States
13 April 2006

"And did the Countenance Divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills? And was Jerusalem builded here Among these dark Satanic mills? "

William Blake, "Jerusalem", 1795

"We all have to make sacrifices!" --from the Mangler-screenplay, 1995

Coming from Stephen King's 1978 collection of shorts, "Night Shift", Tobe Hooper brings us his very different-take: a parable of 19th Century, proprietary-capitalism and the nightmare of the American-workplace. This film is what labor-conditions were 100-years-ago, and what they could easily become again if we aren't too-careful. Since the discovery of a slave-sweatshop in El Monte, California a few-years after the release of this film, it isn't so fantastic. Maybe some of us were too-comfortable to "get" this film in the Clinton-era. Most people don't get this film at-all, even just watching it on its surface-levels. It's a real hoot! Yep, you can watch it with a beer, and you can watch it with an open-mind thinking about its deeper-meanings, or you can do both. And--shocker!--ALL of them are FUN.

Tobe Hooper has said for-decades he wanted to do comedy, and he comes close here, which helps this film from being too-oppressive. Ithink Hooper understood the story better than Stephen King--it seems King worked in a clothes-pressing plant like this one in the 1960s, which gave-rise to it, but Hooper has always struck me as politically-radical in his approach-to-horror. The best horror usually has a real subversive-edge, and this is what makes this a good one. Sure, it's hokey, but it has its tongue firmly-planted in its cheek, it is jokey. It also has some sub-themes in the lines, "There's a piece of me in that machine--and a piece of it in me." It speaks well of how people are spiritually-contaminated by our system. The disease is greed.

If it wasn't for Ted Levine ("Buffalo Bill" in Silence of the Lambs) as the bedraggled town-cop John Hunton, Robert Englund would literally steal-the-show here. Tobe uses some great low-shots and wide-angle lens compositions (ala "Citizen Kane") that lend the film a great comic-book look, and make Englund shine as a despicable-villain. The irony is, mill-owner Gartley is also a victim of the machine, even robbing him of the ability to walk. He's also half-blind, which makes-sense. The characters are pretty well-drawn, and we learn that Detective Hunton has some baggage left-behind from the death of his wife in a car-accident, years-earlier. The town is run like a virtual-dictatorship by Gartley, who basically represents the "robber-barons" of the 19th century (as well as today), completely-uncaring about the safety and welfare of his employees. A man who has lost his humanity. Sound familiar?

Eventually, an accident occurs where the niece of Englund's character spills her own blood on the "Mangler", a clothes-press that must be 100-years-old. Another shop-employee spills her belladonna-laced antacids into the guts of the machine, and it begins taking-victims...and parts. Oddly, all the people Bill Gartley "owns" (the Mayor, the Police Chief, Doctors, etc.) have missing-fingers. Of course, the premise of a demoniacally-possessed machine is fantasy, which is what makes the story a parable, but it's fun. Over-time, Detective Hunton finds that the Gartley dynasty has been-sacrificing their own young to the infernal-machine for a century, and now they're "spreading-the-love". Don't all employers? Some require the blood of a virgin!

So, people have been wrong about this one. It's a minor-classic of a bad-decade for horror. The genre has its fallow-periods where interest isn't as-high, and 1995 wasn't exactly a banner-year for horror-buffs. And quit-comparing every film a director does to their most well-known ones, it's emotionally-retarded. This is a solid horror-film, and if it had been presented in the proper-context, would have been better-appreciated. The short-story is good, but this is better, and Stephen King sure isn't Edgar Allan Poe or Lovecraft ferchrissakes. The New Line DVD is great, it has a perfect widescreen-transfer, and even includes the gore that was cut with split-screen comparisons to the theatrical-version. A great horror-film, and a respectable one for Tobe Hooper. Now you can all go and rewatch the original "Texas Chainsaw Massacre"--just don't touch-yourself so-much this time. We all have to make sacrifices, after-all. Ignore the other reviews, those people are snobs.

A laundry folding machine is possessed by a demon from Hell.

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Dolan's Cadillac

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A young man attempts to seek to avenge his wife's death after she is murdered by a Las Vegas mobster.

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In Las Vegas, school teachers Robinson and his wife Elizabeth are trying for a baby. While horse riding through the desert one evening, Elizabeth witnesses the execution of two coyotes and an illegal immigrant by the human trafficker Jimmy Dolan and decides to report the incident to the police. However, she loses her cellular and Dolan finds it, tracks her address down and threatens her. Elizabeth goes to the FBI with Robinson and they move to a safe house under the protection of two agents. When Elizabeth sneaks from the house to buy pregnancy tests, her car explodes and she dies. Robinson decides to avenge Elizabeth's death. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Adapted from a short story by iconic horror author Stephen King, Dolan's Cadillac stars Wes Bently as a vengeful widower seeking to settle the score with Jimmy Dolan (Christian Slater), the untouchable Las Vegas crime boss who killed his wife.

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The Mist

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A freak storm unleashes a species of bloodthirsty creatures on a small town, where a small band of citizens hole up in a supermarket and fight for their lives.



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Combine (1) a mysterious threat that attacks a town, and (2) a group of townspeople who take refuge together, and you have a formula apparently able to generate any number of horror movies, from "Night of the Living Dead" (1968) to "30 Days of Night." All you have to do is choose a new threat and a new place of refuge, and use typecasting and personality traits so we can tell the characters apart.

In "The Mist," based on a Stephen King story, a violent storm blows in a heavy mist that envelops that favorite King locale, a village in Maine. When the electric power goes out, David Drayton (Thomas Jane) and his young son Billy (Nathan Gamble) drive slowly into town to buy emergency supplies at the supermarket. They leave mom behind, which may turn out to be a mistake. Inside the store, we meet a mixed bag of locals and weekenders, including Brent Norton (Andre Braugher), the Draytons' litigious neighbor; Mrs. Carmody (Marcia Gay Harden), a would-be messianic leader, and the store assistant Ollie (Toby Jones), who, like all movie characters named Ollie, is below-average height and a nerd.

You may not be astonished if I tell you that there is Something Out There in the mist. It hammers on windows and doors and is mostly invisible until a shock cut that shows an insect the size of a cat, smacking into the store window. Then there are other things, too. Something with tentacles. ("What do you think those tentacles are attached to?" asks David.) Other things that look like a cross between a praying mantis and a dinosaur. Creatures that devour half a man in a single bite.

David and Mrs. Carmody become de facto leaders of two factions within the store: (1) the sane people, who try to work out plans to protect themselves, and (2) the doomsday apocalypse mongers, who see these events as payback for the sinful ways of mankind. Mrs. Carmody's agenda is a little shaky, but I think she wants lots of followers, and I wouldn't put the idea of human sacrifice beyond her. David advises everybody to stay inside, although of course there are hotheads who find themselves compelled to go out into the mist for one reason or another. If you were in a store and man-eating bugs were patroling the parking lot, would you need a lot of convincing to stay inside?

David proves a little inconsistent, however, when he leads a group of volunteers to the drugstore in the same shopping center, to get drugs to help a burned man. There is a moral here, and I am happy to supply it: Never shop in a supermarket that does not have its own prescription department. There is another moral, and that is since special effects are so expensive, it is handy to have a mist so all you need is an insect here, a tentacle there, instead of the cost of entire bug-eyed monsters doing a conga line.

The movie was written and directed by Frank Darabont, whose "The Shawshank Redemption" is currently No. 2 on IMDb's all-time best movies list, and who also made "The Green Mile." Both were based on Stephen King's work, but I think he picked the wrong story this time. What helps, however, is that the budget is adequate to supply the cardboard characters with capable actors and to cobble together some gruesome and slimy special effects.

Everyone labors away to bring energy to the cliches, including Toby Jones, who proves that a movie Ollie may have unsuspected resources. Thomas Jane is energetic in the thankless role of the sane leader, but Marcia Gay Harden -- well, give her a break; it's not a plausible or playable role. I also grew tired of Andre Braugher's neighbor, who takes so much umbrage at imagined slights that he begins to look ominously like a plot device.

If you have seen ads or trailers suggesting that horrible things pounce on people, and they make you think you want to see this movie, you will be correct. It is a competently made Horrible Things Pouncing on People Movie. If you think Frank Darabont has equaled the "Shawshank" and "Green Mile" track record, you will be sadly mistaken. If you want an explanation for the insect monsters (and this is not really giving anything away), there is speculation that they arrived through a rift in the space-time continuum. Rifts in s-t continuums are one of the handiest inventions of science fiction, so now you've got your complete formula: threat to town, group of townspeople and rift. Be my guest.

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Stephen King's Pet Semetary

I am Blogging Pet Cemetary cause they are doing a Remake of Pet Semetary



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A doctor dabbles in magical resurrection with horrific consequences in this supernatural thriller adapted from the novel by Stephen King. When Dr. Louis Creed (Dale Midkiff) and his family move from Chicago to an old farmhouse in rural Maine, their only concern is the busy highway that flanks their new home. Louis' family -- wife Rachel (Denise Crosby), daughter Ellie (Blaze Berdahl), and toddler Gage (Miko Hughes) -- soon meet kindly old duffer Jud Crandall (Fred Gwynne), who introduces themall to the local attractions, including a pet cemetary built on the remains of a Native American burial ground. When Rachel and the kids head off to visit Louis' in-laws, Ellie's cat gets flattened by a truck. Jud counsels Louis to bury it in the old Indian portion of the cemetary; the next day, it returns from the dead, carrying with it the stink of the earth and a decidedly bad attitude. Shortly thereafter, Louis is tempted to use the cemetary's magical powers again when his son suffers a tragic accident. A snarling kitty, it turns out, is nothing compared to the horror of a little boy with no soul and a taste for scalpels. In addition to adapting his own novel for the screen, writer King appeared in a brief cameo as the minister presiding over Gage's funeral. Director Mary Lambert would return with Pet Sematary Two

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Truly mesmerizing, and scary at times...

4 October 2002 | by Lando_Hass (The Thuderdome, b**ch!!) – See all my reviews

I am a big fan of Stephen King's work, and this film has made me an even greater fan of King. Pet Sematary is about the Creed family. They have just moved into a new house, and they seem happy. But there is a pet cemetery behind their house. The Creed's new neighbor Jud (played by Fred Gwyne) explains the burial ground behind the pet cemetery. That burial ground is pure evil. Jud tells Louis Creed that when you bury a human being (or any kind of pet) up in the burial ground, they would come back to life. The only problem, is that when they come back, they are NOT the same person, they're evil. Soon after Jud explains everything about the Pet Sematary, everything starts to go to hell. I wont explain anymore because I don't want to give away some of the main parts in the film. The acting that Pet Sematary had was pretty good, but needed a little bit of work. The story was one of the main parts of this movie, mainly because it was so original and gripping. This film features lots of make-up effects that make the movie way more eerie, and frightening. One of the most basic reasons why this movie sent chills up my back, was in fact the make-up effects. There is one character in this film that is truly freaky. That character is "Zelda." This particular character pops up in the film about three times to be precise. Zelda is Rachel Creed's sister who passed away years before, but Rachel is still haunted by her. The first time Zelda appears in the movie isn't generally scary because she isn't talking or anything, but the second time is the worst, and to be honest, the second time scares the living **** out of me. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this movie, it is almost perfect. Pet Sematary delivers great scares, some pretty good acting, first rate plot, and mesmerizing make-up. This is truly one of most favorite horror films of all time. 10 out of 10.

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Cujo

Well Stephen King nothing more needs to be said I think. A cute Dog to a Killing spree what is not to scare you there?


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Based on a Stephen King novel, Cujo is not as menacing or as frightening as other film adaptations of King's popular stories and especially cannot compare to the 1976 Carrie. Cujo is a happy St. Bernard until he is bitten on the nose by a rabid bat and slowly begins manifesting the symptoms of his fatal illness. His condition deteriorates as he attacks people again and again, until finally, mom Donna Trenton (Dee Wallace) and her son Tad (Danny Pintauro) are trapped inside the family car withCujo lurking nearby, set to kill them any way he can. A showdown is inevitable but is as predictable as the rest of the film. 

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Sometimes They come Back

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One word comes to mind when considering this adaptation of a very minor Stephen king story:

Why?

Why was this made? Can anyone honestly say it was made with the intention of furthering the cause of the horror genre? Would anyone dare claim that a film as lame as this was made to entertain and thrill? Sadly, we all know the answer to these questions.

The film may be based on King’s story, but was clearly inspired by the almighty dollar. “Sometimes They Come Back” is a tired, weak film that has nothing to offer the genre fan. It is a non-event, and yet another thinly veiled excuse to milk yet more money from the apparently everlasting King cash cow.

I must admit, I am a fan of king’s writing and have read most of his books. But Jesus, the cinematic atrocities that have been committed in his name make me shudder for all the wrong reasons. “Sometimes They Come Back” is another in this swamp of mediocrity, an unbearably pedestrian waste of celluloid that would fail to scare even the most nervous of children. The film was actually made for U.S. TV, but even this fails to excuse such a sickening exercise in nothingness.

Based on the story of the same name, the film follows Jim Norman (Tim Matheson), a schoolteacher who returns to work in his old hometown after suffering a violent breakdown. The town holds tragic memories for Jim, and he is still haunted by the death of his younger brother years ago in an accident that also claimed the lives of a local gang of bullies. Jim’s life takes a turn for the sinister as one by one the bullies return from the grave to haunt him, each one replacing a murdered student from his class.

“Sometimes They Come Back” is directed by Tom McLoughlin, an unambitious TV film director whose only effort of note has been “Friday the 13th part VI: Jason Lives”. His direction here is completely anonymous, flat, and without any sense of style. Worse still is the film’s pacing, which is slow even at the best of times. There is no suspense at all, and McLoughlin utterly fails to provide any chills or thrills.

The plot is entirely predictable, and any edge that King’s story may have had is irreparably diluted by the stench of this rotten production. The film is guaranteed to leave the viewer yawning with boredom, troubled by nothing more than a vague feeling of anger at having wasted 97 minutes. What in the name of all that is holy is the point of a horror film that makes no attempt to horrify? Honestly, “Sometimes They Come Back” is so lazy it barely makes any effort to include even the tamest of shocks.

Still, at least McLoughlin does manage to drum up a certain atmosphere: of cheapness. Even the fact that this was made for TV does not excuse the fact that it feels like several episodes of a low budget series hastily edited together. Some films benefit from a shoestring budget, gaining a sense of gritty realism. “Sometimes They Come Back” merely gains the sense of being an amateurish mess.

The acting is sophomoric at best, and film fans will howl with frustration at seeing the career of once proud Tim Matheson (“Animal House”) decline even further into TV movie hell. Oh, the sheer indignity of it all! Minor TV movie queen Brooke Adams simpers her way through the film as Matheson’s laughably ineffective wife. The rest of the cast would be more at home in a high school play and only serve to accentuate the unbelievable lack of professionalism that went into making this pointless melodrama.

Gore hounds should not even bother with this limp, bloodless excuse for a horror film. There is no carnage, few deaths and scant bloodletting. What do we get in return? A few substandard zombie make up FX.

This is a terrible non-film that all should stay away from. I am utterly at a loss as to how this pathetic excuse for a tax-write off managed to inspire not one, but two sequels — the hilariously titled “Sometimes They Come Back….Again” and “Sometimes They Come Back….For More”. Are these films any good? Do you really need to ask?

I hope that anyone who reads this review appreciates the strain I have put myself under by forcing myself to recall viewing this wretched film. Still, if you promise never to watch “Sometimes They Come Back”, then my pain will all have been worthwhile.

Tom McLoughlin (director) / Stephen King (short story), Lawrence Konner, Mark Rosenthal (teleplay)
CAST: Tim Matheson …. Jim Norman
Brooke Adams …. Sally Norman
Robert Rusler …. Richard Lawson
Chris Demetral …. Wayne Norman
Robert Hy Gorman …. Scott Norman

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