Anyone remember the auld 1989 version? Herman Munster played the auld laddie across the ‘rud’, Jud. This remake is meant tae be oot next year in April... The novel wiz pretty chilling, like.
Ah have read the book quite a few times, listened tae it on Audible and listened tae a decent BBC audioplay version. The first time Ah read the novel (13 years auld) Ah wiz actually scared tae turn the pages when the protagonist follows Victor Pascow tae the sacred groond. Ah rewatched the ‘89 film just a couple o’ months back and genuinely enjoyed it. Jud, Pascow, Church, the Trucks and Gage are all good value imo. Ah am incredibly biased mind, Stephen King is my favourite author and in the last two years Ah’ve listened via audiobooks tae every novel he’s ever written (inc. stories he’s written under the pseudonym, Richard Bachman).
Yeah, this one has a good shot of surpassing the original in terms of quality. Wont be hard to do.. the 89 version is comically bad.
No sense in in lying, I've only ever read one King novel... The Long Walk, which was fucking amazing. And I've heard, after all these years, they're turning it into a movie... hope they do it right, because it has the most chilling ending I've ever read.
Ah only read ‘The Long Walk’ in the last year or so, despite it being written back in the late seventies ba Richard Bachman. Writing as Bachman, King felt more inclined tae darker endings and ‘Pet Sematary’ wiz meant tae have originally been intended as a Bachman release (upon finishing ‘Pet Sematary’, he actually declared he’d never release it as it wiz tae disturbing a tale fer even him). If Ye ever fancy reading King, it’s best tae go back tae his earlier works, perennial favourites being Salem’s Lot, The Stand, The Shining, IT and Christine (the first novel o’ his Ah ever read). Ah say ‘reading’, Ah have listened tae audiobooks fer years and it is a good way o’ making non-taxing, yet dull, chores bearable. Ah’m talking aboot cleaning and ironing, fer example. Ma mother had ‘Dirty Dancing’ and Ah’ve got someone telling me a story! Ah’m no’ prood.
His short story books are my favorite... Night Shift, Skeleton Crew and Nightmares and Dreamscapes are all fantastic... his biggest weaknesses as a novelist are his emotional cheesiness when writing dialogue, sexual cheesiness when depicting intimacy and a tendency to stumble with endings (not that any of these is enough to make me not love his books) ... the beauty of the short stories is that those weaknesses are absent because there's no time for any of it and there's no pressure on him to provide a satisfying conclusion to events because the reader moves right on to another story ... the endings are all over the map... happy, sad, ambiguous
All great I also loved Beachworld Mrs. Todd's Shortcut The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands (linked with another of his short stories- The Breathing Method)
Spot on post, I agree with all of it especially with how cheesy he writes intimate sexual scenes. I always thought he should have hired someone to clean those parts up for him. I also really liked his short stories too. King is easily the author whose books I’ve read the most, especially when you factor in how rarely I read fiction.
Same here. Outside of some classic literature mostly from school days, I hardly ever read fiction yet I've read most of his stuff because the guy has a great imagination.
Ohh Jesus Christ, nevermind all the potential it seemed to have. It looks like an utter joke based on this second preview.
I have never read a Stephen King book, but the films are way overrated. Carrie was the best and it just managed to be 'good'.
Watch panchyprsss invent some fake story about it not being scary or good and some girls laughing at it during some matinee performance at a theater in 1980.
The movie was really good I thought. At least at the time I saw it in 1989. Some scary scenes like the boy's chilling laughter when he's back from the dead.
IT in the mid-80s was about the time I stopped reading his books. Up to then, I read everything he released
Ah watched the film last night and Ah thought it wiz bloody good. Ah ken (know) the story inside oot but there were a few well-done twists on the original tale... tae speak more o’ them wid be tae spoil the show. Good value and still as dark as the book. This is a preemptive insult - Fuck you, Mustard! Just kilting.
Watched this one and I recommend it just for the completely different and awesome twist ending this one had. I haven’t loved a twist ending this much since The Mist which is ironically another movie based off of one of King’s stories.
Are you being serious? The Pet Sematary remake was fucking AWFUL! Terrible, horrible! It somehow managed to be worse than the original, and the original wasn't even good. Mentioning it in the same sentence as The Mist is an insult.
Wow. I completely disagree with everything in your post. To say the original Pet Semetary isn’t a good movie IMO is kind of head scratching. It wasn’t great but I found it an entertaining horror that was good enough to watch more than once and I certainly don’t consider it bad. Same thing with the remake. It isn’t great and one thing I do agree with you on is it isn’t better than the original. Still, like the original I don’t consider it bad and I actually watched it a second time and one thing I think it has going for it is how much different it was than the original, specifically that twist ending I mentioned. Finally—and here’s the thing that really confuses me about your post. You speak about The Mist like it’s some holy grail of horror and although I too like that film I find it only marginally better than the original Pet Semetary.
