do we want to restrict it to bad/mediocre movies? I like that idea.
― Simon H., Thursday, 9 May 2019 19:31 (five years ago) link
Here, we can stop shitting up this thread now: Best and/or Scariest and/or Creepiest Scenes Ever (from horror films or TV shows or whatever, I don't care)
― Artisanal Personality Disorder (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 May 2019 19:32 (five years ago) link
i think a lot of king's creepiest and most unsettling scenes are basically unfilmable, because they either stem from some ineffable, nearly-symptomless ~~wrongness~~ about the mise-en-scene.... or really freaky elaborate distortions of reality (like idk the house caving in on the kid in the second or third dark tower book) which are just going to be realized as photorealistic-but-fakey CGI, missing the gauze of nightmare that our imaginations give to them.
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 9 May 2019 23:03 (five years ago) link
yes v well put
― deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 May 2019 23:06 (five years ago) link
a v strange quality, possibly stemming specifically from manys the shonky tv/movie adaptation, where even *in my head* now, kings scare scenes look like crummy cheap and corny efforts. i really have to not visualize in order for it to be in any way scary, essentially
― deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 May 2019 23:08 (five years ago) link
def agreed on cgi literalism but of course movies can do ineffable wrongness just fine if you have the talent for it (which is why you even said mise-en-scene). suspect the people who edited that old lady scene have seen inland empire.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 9 May 2019 23:32 (five years ago) link
lynch is a good example, his reputation as an arthouse director often overshadows the fact that he's exceptional at creating unsettling or often deeply frightening moments and scenes, and has the ability to maintain an atmosphere of dread over long stretches. the most frightening thing i'd seen in my early years was maybe Twin Peaks, which captures in a very different way a small town full of unexplained terrors, and it's always made me think he could pull off an outstanding SK adaptation.
― omar little, Thursday, 9 May 2019 23:43 (five years ago) link
all true and obv the shining gets this in its own way, and probably others if i thought about it. just i feel like the powers that be with greenlighting a big horror film in the 2010s aren't going to grok a pitch that really leans into that stuff. so maybe it's not so much "unfilmable" as "not what decision-makers picture a 'stephen king movie' as being like."
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 9 May 2019 23:44 (five years ago) link
omar, you've just made me lament the Lynch/King collaboration we'll never see...
― Artisanal Personality Disorder (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 May 2019 23:48 (five years ago) link
yeah twin peaks is great at the "there's something especially creepy and cold and evil about THIS stretch of 2-lane road through the woods on a pitch-black night" vibe
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Friday, 10 May 2019 00:00 (five years ago) link
Lynch & king have a shared interest in certain archetypes & Americana and both independently arrived at the idea that the ultimate embodiment of evil is a goofball in a denim jacket, although only Lynch managed to make that actually terrifying. King attempting Lynch gives you daffy shit like his riget remake; I would love for Lynch to attempt king, if only to give ol Steve something to hate even more than kubrick’s shining
― milkshake chuk (wins), Friday, 10 May 2019 09:43 (five years ago) link
Lynch would do the house on nybolt street soooo well
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Friday, 10 May 2019 14:30 (five years ago) link
GIVE IT UP, STEPHEN
How about Netflix bringing back UNDER THE DOME, only starting from scratch and actually doing the book?— Stephen King (@StephenKing) June 13, 2019
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 14 June 2019 09:53 (four years ago) link
lol yeah i read that and rolled my eyes all the way back.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 14 June 2019 14:05 (four years ago) link
It's like you folks have completely forgotten how he and Steven Weber labored to bring us the PROPER adaptation of The Shining we'd been clamoring for since that abomination dropped back in 1980. Never discount the King!
― Morrie Antoilette (Old Lunch), Friday, 14 June 2019 14:12 (four years ago) link
I didn’t watch it but I don’t think the improper adaptation of under the dome is as well regarded as kubrick’s shining tbf
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Friday, 14 June 2019 14:14 (four years ago) link
I kid, but I get it. He'd like to see others adapt his work with the degree of reverence he demonstrated when he brought 'Trucks' to the silver screen.
― Morrie Antoilette (Old Lunch), Friday, 14 June 2019 14:24 (four years ago) link
Ha that one I have seen, it’s an outstanding piece of shit and all fun and games until the dp loses an eye
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Friday, 14 June 2019 14:28 (four years ago) link
I still remember how incredibly excited I was for that Shining miniseries as a kid and huge fan of the book, the original film, all things King, etc. I think I ended up not even watching the last episode.
― One Eye Open, Friday, 14 June 2019 14:45 (four years ago) link
King films are notoriously mostly dogshit, it’s interesting now we’re in this moment of ~respectable~ king films and the decent to dogshit ratio is exactly the same as before except that funless competence is now the peakThe new it and pet sematary are the most egregious, you can feel the cumulative hedging of 500 script iterations by committee creating a product that’s less compelling than the trashy 90s versions
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Friday, 14 June 2019 14:49 (four years ago) link
The early King adaptations are still the best, obv. I mean when your work is being adapted by De Palma, Kubrick, and Cronenberg the results are gonna be okay! Gotta give a shout out to The Running Man and Stand By Me too but they are obv different from the usual when it comes to King.
His horror works much better on the page and anyone trying to directly translate it has to devote a lot of time to dialogue about shit weasels and so on.
― omar little, Friday, 14 June 2019 14:59 (four years ago) link
Pet Sematary remake was the most pointless thing. The original was fine, nothing mindblowing but better than most King adaptations. I haven't heard anyone say anything complimentary about the new one. What's even the point. Remake the freakin' Lawnmower Man if you absolutely have to go down that road.
― Morrie Antoilette (Old Lunch), Friday, 14 June 2019 15:12 (four years ago) link
Original ps is mainly bad but entertainingly so and features the single funniest scene in the history of cinema https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5So0SX24u0
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Friday, 14 June 2019 15:19 (four years ago) link
that shd be on the sight and sound thread
― mark s, Friday, 14 June 2019 15:23 (four years ago) link
tbh, as corny as that scene may be, it still fucks me up.
― ☮ (peace, man), Friday, 14 June 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
I must have watched it a hundred times and it never fails to crack me upPet sematary 2 quite obv the best watch of the bunch, the new remake even nicked a plot element from it
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Friday, 14 June 2019 15:40 (four years ago) link
lol its a shame how he gets tripped up by that hidden invisible bear trap when he's just inches away from the kid, really hate to see that happen
― One Eye Open, Friday, 14 June 2019 16:35 (four years ago) link
was really hoping he'd have a chance to GET THE BABY
GET THE BABY
― One Eye Open, Friday, 14 June 2019 16:38 (four years ago) link
I haven't seen it since its initial airing obv, but apparently I am the only human being on the planet who liked the Shining miniseries?
― confusementalism (Dan Peterson), Friday, 14 June 2019 16:43 (four years ago) link
Something about the way they film and perform the idiotic beatific laughter just before hilarious gross negligence reminds me of the zoolander petrol fight scene
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Friday, 14 June 2019 16:43 (four years ago) link
(Xp)
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Friday, 14 June 2019 16:44 (four years ago) link
yeah the way he laughs, does a complete 180 turn to his child, and then they cut back and hes still just laughing with his back turned is like a perfect comedy beat
― One Eye Open, Friday, 14 June 2019 16:52 (four years ago) link
whereabouts is this film in the history of the "big no" trope?
(or did kubrick invent that also)
― mark s, Friday, 14 June 2019 16:58 (four years ago) link
post-"Tough Guys Don't Dance", which probably deserves its own category.
― omar little, Friday, 14 June 2019 17:00 (four years ago) link
idk if this is the originator but it must be the pinnacle, playing it 3 times for no reason just makes it perfect kitsch somehow
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Friday, 14 June 2019 17:01 (four years ago) link
For those unaware, the Pet Sematary dad is also the actor responsible for this apex of filmed entertainment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhNC9VPBXXI
― Morrie Antoilette (Old Lunch), Friday, 14 June 2019 17:09 (four years ago) link
holy shitGod bless him
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Friday, 14 June 2019 17:24 (four years ago) link
i can found "10 hours of principal skinner shouting noooo" on youtube (i didn't watch it all) but no tropes-type history of what the simpsons had in mind when they first used it >:(
― mark s, Friday, 14 June 2019 17:27 (four years ago) link
i saw PS at a drive-in and the entire place erupted in cheers at that scene
― orifex, Friday, 14 June 2019 18:42 (four years ago) link
For those unaware, the Pet Sematary dad is also the actor responsible for this apex of filmed entertainment:― Morrie Antoilette (Old Lunch), Friday, June 14, 2019 5:09 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Morrie Antoilette (Old Lunch), Friday, June 14, 2019 5:09 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
OL, I had no idea this was missing from my life.
― ☮ (peace, man), Friday, 14 June 2019 20:59 (four years ago) link
he plays a vicious pimp in Roger Corman's '80s classic Streetwalkin' starring Melissa Leo as a runaway(!) who becomes a prostitute who eventually has to FIGHT BACK
― omar little, Friday, 14 June 2019 21:07 (four years ago) link
You saw Principal Skinner at a drive in?
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 14 June 2019 21:08 (four years ago) link
I saw Principal Skinner at a drive-in making babies with Mrs Krabappel and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 14 June 2019 22:51 (four years ago) link
Not sure if this is the best thread for it, search wasn't coming up with anything promising, but this season of Castle Rock has been great. Lizzy Caplan is really, really good.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 8 November 2019 16:38 (four years ago) link
― confusementalism (Dan Peterson), Friday, June 14, 2019 4:43 PM (four months ago)
i wonder how many ppl have seen this? i watched some clips on youtube a while ago and thought it looked pretty painful.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 8 November 2019 17:54 (four years ago) link
I was trying to find somewhere to watch it last week and not having any luck
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Friday, 8 November 2019 23:07 (four years ago) link
i did some more googling to see if i could find it (no luck) and found this hilariously over-the-top review of it -- half the review is just the writer ranting about how much he hates stephen king:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1997/04/26/the-shining-recycled-trash/ff9d7e88-59d2-4ddc-ac38-99138de88fd0/
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 9 November 2019 00:33 (four years ago) link
Will wait for the mini series
― June Pointer’s Valentine’s Day Secret Admirer Note Author (calstars), Saturday, 9 November 2019 00:49 (four years ago) link
Might have found it, will let u know if it works
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 9 November 2019 02:12 (four years ago) link
Doctor Sleep:
Stephen...Stanley...always you wrestle inside me
― Conceptualize Wyverns (latebloomer), Monday, 11 November 2019 04:42 (four years ago) link