Icons

[Dead Bad Things]

Icons?!! American Horror Icons....E.A.Poe, H.P.Lovecraft, Stephen King...
....'cept they all ain't still with us and don't make flix....

[Jake.Ashworth]

Originally Posted by Dead Bad Things

Icons?!! American Horror Icons....E.A.Poe, H.P.Lovecraft, Stephen King...
....'cept they all ain't still with us and don't make flix....

Well, Stephen King kind of does... just in some cases, not very well... I wish just once someone would make a Stephen King movie that really pays the book justice. Im praying for that to happen with the Dark Tower movies.

[hammerfan]

Originally Posted by Jake.Ashworth

Well, Stephen King kind of does... just in some cases, not very well... I wish just once someone would make a Stephen King movie that really pays the book justice. Im praying for that to happen with the Dark Tower movies.

What about "Cujo"? I thought the movie was excellent.

[Repo'd]

Originally Posted by hammerfan

What about "Cujo"? I thought the movie was excellent.

I like Cujo too. I'm a big fan of Christine as well. Granted both of these films stray from the book at some pretty important points, but they're still nice adaptations of Kings work. The Shining is a wonderful and unforgettable movie but King himself is not a fan and in a lot of places, Kubricks film doesn't resemble the book at all.

[Jake.Ashworth]

Originally Posted by hammerfan

What about "Cujo"? I thought the movie was excellent.

I said in some cases. I hate it when a film is dumbed down to make it TV friendly or more mainstream. I know its necessary to get the story out there sometimes. But The Stand mini series was meh, and really needs an R rated movie. IT was ok, but it also really needs an R rated movie. Cujo was great, Salems Lot was good. But a lot of times King's intention is lost in the translation. The movies that manage to evoke the same emotions as the books work great, even if they stray from the book.

[Roiffalo]

No Silver Bullet mention. Suppose that's my job.
Can't find the damn book for the life of me to read it to compare, but the movie was alright. Something about King's works don't usually do it for me. If you've ever seen Nostalgia Critic's review for It, I think it would sum up fairly well why. I've only ever read one of his books though, and go figure it's not a movie for me to compare the two. Dragon Eye or something like that. Can't even fully remember how it went. ...Except Hammer wouldn't like it.

[hammerfan]

Originally Posted by Roiffalo

No Silver Bullet mention. Suppose that's my job.
Can't find the damn book for the life of me to read it to compare, but the movie was alright. Something about King's works don't usually do it for me. If you've ever seen Nostalgia Critic's review for It, I think it would sum up fairly well why. I've only ever read one of his books though, and go figure it's not a movie for me to compare the two. Dragon Eye or something like that. Can't even fully remember how it went. ...Except Hammer wouldn't like it.

Why wouldn't I?

[Roiffalo]

Animal death.

[Abishai100]

Nothing will replace John Carpenter's "Halloween" [1978] and the original Michael Myers.

However, to cheer myself up, I investigate the genre of horror comics, which offers a nice blending of realms such as Tales from the Crypt and Friday the 13th.

I'm interested in the Eerie and Hellboy horror comics series.

Horror comics help us resurrect and resuscitate culture investments in campfire horror storytelling.

Even though Michael Myers (the iconic fictional masked serial killer who stalks people on Halloween Eve) is the penultimate cultural storytelling symbol of everyday terror, modern horror film series such as Scream (Wes Craven) and Urban Legend (Original Film/Phoenix Pictures) do manage to create general street talk.





Dark Horse (Horror Comics)

[tfantasy]

Since so many mentioned the most popular and favorites already, I would like to add two of my loves - Tim Burton and Guillermo del Toro