god DAMN but The Mist is a terrifying story

[goatschool]

FG, i thought THE MANGLER was kind of cool for that reason alone. something completely implausible, preposterously so. it worked, at least for me, if viewed from that perspective.

xfer, i only saw the Green Mile, and actually sort of liked it. the execution scene was really upsetting.

also, stoatschool.

 

[FrostGiant]

The movie for sure. That's the most recent for me, which was still many years ago, but I remeber it sucked.

 

[goatschool]

oh the movie

 

[xfer]

well i liked the movie for the same reason i liked the Ninth Gate: even if there are big storytelling flaws, the movie remains cool and interesting due to the handling of the subject matter (rare book devil shit, occultism, etc.) and, in the cased of the Mangler, the characters: the PI (who was Buffallo Bill in Silence of the Lambs, right?) and his Jesus-lookin', nerdy, occult-loving brother. and Robert Englund as an over-the-top, sneery Satanist!

 

[FrostGiant]

The Ninth Gate could have been so cool if it ended better.

 

[xfer]

the ninth gate had one of the biggest no-shit "twists" ever....OMG THE HOT BLONDE GIRL WHO KEEPS MYSTERIOUSLY APPEARING IS NOT REALLY HUMAN OMG

 

[xfer]

ALSO NOT REALLY ALL THAT HOT

 

[FrostGiant]

Yeah if you didn't pick that up by the time she floated down the stairs you needed to be shot.

 

[goatschool]

was this the polanski film with johnny depp?

i barely remember it except for the goddamn double-exposure ending, if that's what we're talking about

 

[FrostGiant]

That can relate to either of the two previous posts, btw.

 

[VangelicSurgeon]

holy shit the mangler was SO GOOD. "The Hand of Glory I was worried about, I don't mind telling you...thanks god there's no chance any of THAT fell in there..." And the boogeyman, MWAH. his short story books are phenomenal, even the newest one, the name escapes me right now. I've been lying around nursing my hangover and reading skeleton crew, now I want to pick up N&D...that story Rainy Season is so terrifying not to mention Crouch End, which gave me nightmares even as a teenager. I'm so happy this thread took off.

oh and The Jaunt. GAUH!

I just re-read insomnia and it's good, but very cartoonish. In fact I think it would make an excellent animated film.

 

[xfer]

yeah, you think "Polanski film with Johnny Depp about rare-book collecting/antiquarianism and the occult/Satanism"? THAT SOUNDS AMAZING!

but it's just not.

 

[xfer]

the jaunt!

crouch end was my favourite stephen king story for a time; i read it in some Cthulhu compendium before N&D came out, and it was heavily edited for N&D, i seem to recall. and i didn't like it as much, but i still liked it.

dude: JERUSALEM'S LOT. awesome short story.

 

[avi]

the ninth gate was a decently made film, but the plot/script blew. i enjoyed the use of music.

 

[Demonspell]

in fact just yesterday i was discussing that story that takes place on a sand-planet in the future and there's a tread-legged cap'n and living, psychic sand. skeleton crew, right?

I remember that one...either he cannot write science fiction, or didn't want to attempt writing sci-fi that is even slightly plausible.

 

[VangelicSurgeon]

sci-fi...plausible...let's think for a minute shall we?

 

[FalseTodd]

sci-fi

 

[xfer]

well, i understand that demonspell means that fiction (not just science fiction) generally has to have verisimilitude in order to be good.

however, i don't think that story didn't have verisimilitude.

 

[FalseTodd]

Well I guess my problem was that I think of sci-fi generally as being novels-of-ideas that benefit from being unconstrained by literal reality, blah blah blah...

 

[FuSoYa]

i.e. 1984