Posted by moviegeek916 on June 22, 2014 · Leave a Comment
The Shawshank Redemption (1994) – Stephen King has a program where film students can adapt one of his short stories (NOT his novels or novellas) for only a dollar, provided they send him a copy of the film. King declares that the best of these was The Woman in the Room. It’s not a horror … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on June 4, 2014 · Leave a Comment
The Shining (1980) – What makes a movie scary? The most horrifying thing most parents could imagine would be to lose their child, but if you have a movie about parents losing a child it would be much more likely to be categorized as a “drama.” I often refer to the documentary Jesus Camp as “the … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on July 23, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Creepshow 2(1987) – So I enjoyed the 1982 horror anthology Creepshow. It was written by Stephen King and directed by George A. Romero so it had that going for it, plus it was their loving homage to hold horror comics like Tales from the Crypt and Vault of Horror. I admittedly went in expecting it … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on June 18, 2012 · Leave a Comment
The Running Man (1987) – A couple weeks ago, we lost actor and longtime game show host Richard Dawson. I never watched Hogan’s Heroes (on which he was a cast member) partially because it was on decades before I was born and partially because growing up I never had the cable channels that aired it … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on April 9, 2012 · Leave a Comment
The Hunger Games (2012) – So this movie made a metric fuckton of money, so a couple weeks into its box-office-record-setting run I’m not sure my opinion actually counts for anything. I offer it anyway because… it’s what I do. I’ve been seeing a lot about The Hunger Games in the past several weeks. My … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 24, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Creepshow (1982) — I try not to go into movies with any preconceived notions about whether or not I’m going to like it or not, but I’m only human. A movie written by Stephen King and directed by George A. Romero that pays loving homage to the EC horror comics of the 1950s (like Tales … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment
The Signal (2007) — This indie flick (Movie #3 in my Halloween Film Fest) is an odd one. On the surface it has a very similar premise to the Stephen King novel Cell and the George Romero movie The Crazies. Execution is where it goes its own way. In essence, all television radio and phone … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment
The Mist (2007) — The second in my Halloween Stephen King Double Feature, The Mist is a movie that’s scary not for the reasons the trailers might lead you to believe. Yeah there’s freaky giants insects, pterodactyl-like things, giant tentacles attached to who-knows-what, and giant crab-scorpion-whatever things. And they are freaky. Especially the skull-faced spiders … Continue reading →
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Persistence of Vision 