Are you watching Steven King's "it"?

[Dr. Quack]

Horror channel 9.00pm.

[bazza]

The clown did it.
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[Cunnington]

"It" was the first Stephen King book I read, and no director could match the imagery in my head. I'll stick with the book thanks!
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[J4mes]

Got it on DVD. Saw the film first when I was 12 and it gave me the willies big time for a few weeks afterwards, but nothing like how I felt when I read the book at 16. Gonna have to read it again soon as there is so much more in the book than they got in the TV movie.

I have read that it's going to be remade though!

[Dr. Quack]

They don't make em l like they used to.

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[blurredman]

Hmm, unfortunately I cannot get that channel
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[Bat]

The film terrified me as a kid. I read the book a few years ago, then re-watched the film. The film is terrible in comparison and the ending is totally different. Love the book!

[pinkyfloyd]

'It' is one of the few movies that truly terrify me. Its not that its a scary movie because it isnt. I'm just shit scared of clowns.
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[UnknownStuntm...]

I read the book. Was a bit unimpressed with it really. I watched the film to see if it made the horror stand out, but no. IT is massively over-rated as a horror.

I think some of his stuff works better as a book, some as movies. Christine was a scary book. Rose Madder was pretty intense. Insomnia was awesome! Regulators was pretty good too actually.

Thinking about it, I wish they'd make Insomnia into a series. Modern day effects would be cool.

[pinkyfloyd]

The best Stephen King work to be turned into a movie that actually worked was Misery. That bed, ankle, sledgehammer scene had me screaming in sympathy.

https://mimg.ugo.com/201007/50370/misery-hammer.jpg
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[Andy_Pagin]

[Suntan Sid]

Or possibly "The Green Mile"!
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[pinkyfloyd]

Mr Suntan, forgive me, as fantastic as the Shawshank is I never remember its actually a Stephen King movie. Probably because its not the typical type of movie that you associate with him.
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[G]

I like the way that it's often short stories that get made in to full length films and often the novels end up as multi-part things - that way you get a reasonable amount of detail from the books transferred.

Unfortunately my favourite Stephen King book (The Running Man) had a rather poor adaptation.

Still haven't seen the film of IT, which I keep meaning to as it was the book that got me in to reading him for a bit - until I got bored as a lot of his books are rather samey.

On that, anyone endured through the Dark Tower series? I did, but regretted, though I liked the idea, it never gelled with me really.

[pinkyfloyd]

[G]

Yea; it's a series I so wanted to enjoy but didn't work for me, though enough to end up reading most of it.

[panrider_uk]

[G]

Apparently the plan had been to do both a film and a TV series - presumably the idea being to try and get that granularity of the books to some degree.

Be interesting if they got 'Game of Thrones' sort of money for it.

[Flip]

It does amuse me that Stephen Kings best films are the non horrors. His horror films tend to be shite. I can't comment on the books as I was always a James Herbert fan.

[mistergixer]

Whilst I do love 'The Shining'* (especially where he kisses the rotting woman in the shower), probably my fave Stephen King adaptation is 'Cat's Eye'.

https://www.bloody-disgusting.com/photosizer/upload/WoodsSmokin.jpg
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6DpEiwWPjI8/TUYPO-3-hfI/AAAAAAAAKnw/N6opOG5bkS8/s1600/cat%2527s+eye3.jpg
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QKvShm7j1pE/TI-r8dk86NI/AAAAAAAADw0/H02AUUTjYw0/s1600/cat's+eye+screencap.jpg

*Or 'The Shinning' to any Simpson's fan.

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