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I didn't know or had forgotten that King wrote Shawshank Redemption. I really enjoyed the movie so I should look up the short story--thanks for the tip.MLeigh85 wrote:I have not read Under the Dome yet or Misery. Some fan I am!! I really like his short stories, and not all of them are horror. His book Different Seasons has 4 short novellas, including The Shawshank Redemption, but the title is something different.
wilde you will enjoy The Stand if you like post-apocalyptic tales, Cell and The Dark Tower series also kind of go hand in hand with that type of genre. The movie on The Stand is very long though. I am not a fan of the movies they make out of his books with the exception of Shawshank Redemption and Misery.
I loved the ending. Even though I saw it coming, I thought it was the perfect and only way to end that story. I just hated the giant bugs. I mean, seriously, guys, come on. A simple clown was enough to scare the shit out of people in It, so why did The Mist need overdone, Evolution (the silly David Duchovny film) type monsters to act as the scary thing? If they had showed me nothing that was in the mist, but still showed the reactions that the characters had and the fear they experienced, I would actually have been more frightened, because the unknown is far scarier than giant spiders and other such bugs. George Lucas said something about his own redoing of the monster on the ice planet Hoth, something to the effect of "some directors think that the less you see of a monster is actually more scary," but he wanted you to actually see the monster, which I do think took some of the intensity away from that scene (having seen it both ways, I definitely liked the first version better, where all you see of the monster is his arm being cut off of him by Luke before he runs away). In a horror movie, less really is more, because the more you explain, the less is left to the imagination, which, in my experience, creates far creepier villains than any computer graphics could come up with.johnson1010 wrote:They had to cut budget on the CGI to keep the ending.
Besides that, there was a lack of good design on those creatures. They shouldn't have looked like just big spiders.
Still one of the best King movies, and i think they were right to keep that ending.
Just so you know what to look for, the story that the movie The Shawshank Redemption is based on is called "Rita Heyworth and Shawshank Redemption."GaryG48 wrote: I didn't know or had forgotten that King wrote Shawshank Redemption. I really enjoyed the movie so I should look up the short story--thanks for the tip.