Self-arranging fridge magnets ... self-ringing bell ... phone ringing with no caller ... regular recurring scary visions under the bed/in the murky water ... poltergeist-style flying objects ... self-playing gramophone/appliance of your choice.
... and as I sit here writing this ten minutes or so into the the second episode I'm thinking it's a shame it doesn't have the cliché-of-all-horror-movie-clichés : the cat springing out of a dark corner at a tense moment ... and then I nearly fall of my chair laughing... It does! (Using a raccoon doesn't make it any less cliché)
I really enjoyed the novel, and against my better judgment I was looking forward to this production. Very few SK novels have made great movies, but I thought the long two-episode format might give this one a chance to tell the story. But strip out the ridiculous abundance of ads (especially in the first half) and you're a left with little more 'content time' than a regular movie, and much of that time used only to pile on the scary-music build-ups to the in-your-face shock moments.
Yet another good Stephen King novel mutilated by Hollywood :(
... and as I sit here writing this ten minutes or so into the the second episode I'm thinking it's a shame it doesn't have the cliché-of-all-horror-movie-clichés : the cat springing out of a dark corner at a tense moment ... and then I nearly fall of my chair laughing... It does! (Using a raccoon doesn't make it any less cliché)
I really enjoyed the novel, and against my better judgment I was looking forward to this production. Very few SK novels have made great movies, but I thought the long two-episode format might give this one a chance to tell the story. But strip out the ridiculous abundance of ads (especially in the first half) and you're a left with little more 'content time' than a regular movie, and much of that time used only to pile on the scary-music build-ups to the in-your-face shock moments.
Yet another good Stephen King novel mutilated by Hollywood :(