I just recently finished SK's 1st published work, Carrie. It has been on my list for a long time, I loved the original 1976 film for YEARS... and then I read the book that it was based off of, and realized how incredibly flawed it was as a film. The 2013 film was on track to actually be a BETTER adaptation than its 1976 counterpart..... and then they had Carried "float" off the stage in the gymnasium, during the Prom Night Killing scene... I don't know why this completely and totally bothered me, but it damn near ruined the film for me. If there hadn't been so many other good attributes, I would have turned it off at that moment. Because Carrie isn't fucking Pennywise, we all don't float down here. No one can say it was an Easter Egg to the odd clown either, because IT didn't come into print until 1986, 12 years after Carrie was published.
I also found that reading a book that you have seen a movie for first is a bit challenging if they are similar though, because I kept wanting to urge them to the Prom Night scene, knowing what was coming. For that I would HIGHLY suggest if anyone is virgin to all of these, that they go in order of release. Book, 1st film,
So here are my thoughts on each of these as an individual entity, and I will wrap up which one I think wins out over all of them afterward:
-Carrie (Book Published 1974): For a first book, I thought this was pretty flawless. It flowed incredibly well, the tension that it brought to the ever Constant Reader was heavy from the first page to the last. The thing that I liked the most about this book, was the sense of what a tragedy the community, and eventually the world, saw this event that happened as. They had studied it, picked it apart, tried to understand every facet of what happened, so that they could ensure they didn't repeat history. The way King pitched us back and forth between the story-line and the investigations and accounts of what happened, was really genius, I think. This became such a major sticking point for me as I immediately realized the 1976 film didn't do that at all, and completely left the idea of aftermath, (short of the silly ending Cemetery scene with Sue that implied the town had "buried" it all) out of the script.... This was SUCH a huge part of the story that King was telling, and was very important to the book.
The prom night scenes in the book were actually far more relaxed than I had expected them to be, as King hadn't created quite as gory of a c
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I've just finished chapter 39 of Pet Sematary on my fourth or fifth read through (this time listening to Michael C. Hall's excellent narration on Audible -- highly recommended, btw). This edition includes a foreword by Stephen King wherein he states that Pet Sematary is, in his opinion, the scariest and most disturbing thing he's ever written. I agree, having read a lot of King's work. It's my favorite work of his, with The Shining and The Dark Tower saga coming close behind.
There are plenty of deeply scary and disturbing elements to this story. I grew up watching the 1989 film, and while it's far from perfect, the Zelda scenes terrified my brother and I when we were kids, and Victor Pascow's portrayal was plenty unsettling as well. Fred Gwynne is fantastic as always, and he's pitch perfect as Jud Crandall (and the reason I'll always love this movie). Unfortunately, the film doesn't do justice to the Timmy Baderman story.
Chapter 39 of Pet Sematary is a master class in horror, and it might be the scariest piece of an extremely disturbing novel. If you haven't read it, I encourage you to do so. The book is excellent.
So you can imagine my bafflement when the only acknowledgement that the 2019 film offers of Timmy Baderman is a headline on a piece of newspaper that Louis Creed passes over. While it fails in some departments (the aggressive portrayal of Pascow has nothing on 1989's creepy but sympathetic take on him), the new film did a couple things really well (the actress who played Rachel relating her story of Zelda stands out), and I would have loved to see this material covered. Overall I think this is a poor adaptation as it really falls apart with logistical impossibilities toward the end.
Did they just cut the Baderman story for time? I genuinely don't understand how they could've omitted this piece of the story. It's a crucial element in Jud's doomed attempt to dissuade Louis from returning to the Micmac burying ground, and it's a hell of a compelling argument. Anyone with any sense would steer clear of the place after hearing this account, and the fact that Louis proceeds regardless really hammers home how devastated and affected he is by Gage's death.
I'm astonished by this omission. Does anyone else have oversights like this to share regarding horror adaptations? Spoiler warnings, please!
what do you guy's think.
I personally think it would be great as animated series, and I hope it gets an adaptation at some point!
The other day I was talking with a friend about Superman, he's not a big fan, and he was saying that WB never knew how to bring the character to modern days, and that's tricky to do. Then I mentioned him the Action Comics Grant Morrison run, and even send him scans of my favorite moments, and when talking about Superman starting like a champion of the downtrodden and he then becoming classic Superman, he got very excited and asked me to borrow my copy of the entire run.
So that made me think, do you think a movie adapting the first arc of Morrison's run in Action Comics could work as a reboot and "modernizing" the character for the G.A.? Or do you think that origin doesn't work or people would reject it?
P.S: Obviously any adaptation would have to change certain stuff, so I'm not talking a 100% comic to screen adaptation.
A player's Agent in my group ended up with a partial adaptation to helplessness, two check marks, after an operation. When running the home scenes the question came up about whether the check marks carry over between operations. My thoughts were to maybe allow a successful therapy pursuit to remove the checks, but said I would decide by next session.
Has this question come up in your games? Ideas? Thoughts? Is there a rule I missed?
What do u think if this lady? She's like a female James Randi
For context... Here's the video game adaptation and the casting choice side by side.
Also noteworthy is that the showrunners have said that this is more an adaptation of the books than the games. But the game is what made it popular.
She looks like a halfway decent cosplay from an average 20 year old
My favorite parts are when Sufjan says (and the way he says)
"Drunk as a horse"
"Like a dead horse"
and I absolutely tear up when he says "Carrie come home"
Just the soft singing with the instrumental slight drums in the background.
Absolutely love these parts.
What are your specific favorite parts from songs from Sufjan?
