Stephen King IT remake
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Does anyone know if they have aborted the plans to remake King's novel for the big screen? A few years ago there was talk of doing a more faithful version, but I've not heard anything since.
Personally i think a faithful remake would be great, because alot of the scariest moments of the book were cut from the TV movie of 1990, which was good, mainly because of Tim Curry, but nowhere near as terrifying as the novel.. Like the creepy leper in the house on Neibolt St, and the enormous prehistoric type bird. Obviously there's some things that they couldn't put in it, like the weird group sex scene
I do feel that a big movie version could be great though.
The TV movie captured the eeriness of Derry, but not the deeply unsettling sexual undertones of the book, that really added to a sense of horror.
Personally i think a faithful remake would be great, because alot of the scariest moments of the book were cut from the TV movie of 1990, which was good, mainly because of Tim Curry, but nowhere near as terrifying as the novel.. Like the creepy leper in the house on Neibolt St, and the enormous prehistoric type bird. Obviously there's some things that they couldn't put in it, like the weird group sex scene
I do feel that a big movie version could be great though.The TV movie captured the eeriness of Derry, but not the deeply unsettling sexual undertones of the book, that really added to a sense of horror.
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The latest line of horror movies leave me underwhelming and don't scare me like back in the day'.
Also, people always talk abut pennywise, who was certainly scary, but in the book the creepy, and paedophilic leper/tramp, is as much an apparition as the clown.
I would not mind a remake, it was a tad too muhahaa pantomime at the
time...I have rewatched it, in fact I have IT..:)
Like you I watched the TV movie, and thought it was scary, except the spider
But when I read the book, it was much scarier than the film, and more adult. The scene with Patrick Hocksetter and the fridge at the tip, full of flying leeches! That still makes me shudder. The book probably has too many great scenes for a film to do it justice.
It was just recently moved across to New Line Cinemas instead of a plain Warner Bros. project. New Line Cinemas are getting back into the Horror niche and they are aiming at horror movies like Insidious, Conjuring instead of what they used to be known for, which was slashers like Scream, Nightmare on elm street.
I would love for James Wan (Insidious, Conjuring) to take the role of director with IT but I am sure he wants to focus on non-horror movies for now... which is a shame!
more info: http://www.trailer-geek.com/movie/it-movie-stephen-king/
Properly messed with my head when I first read the book.
From back when King was still a good writer.
I haven't read Doctor Sleep yet, but I have read 11/22/63 and Joyland both great books! Although, 11/22/63 was the better of both.
Under the dome is a good book too, the TV show isn't bad either.
I gave up after Bag of Bones or Bag of Shite as I like to refer to it. Read everything up until that point but so abysmal was BoB that I turned my back on him.
He`s dead to me!
One of the most chilling moments of the book IT is when the wheezy kid ( can't remember his name) is under the porch in the abandoned house on Neibolt St, and the face of the leper(who is really Bob grey the clown, in another guise) pops up at the window, and starts to climb out, making nasty sexual suggestions to the kid. The terror, and claustrophobia of that scene in the book still gives me chills, real nightmare scenario.:o Obviously they had to cut that from the TV movie.
Do you remember that bit in the book when Beverly goes back to her house 27 yrs later, and the old woman's there ( IT in another guise) ? They had this in the TV movie but truncated. In the novel it's horrifying when she watches the old woman change from being sweet looking to a vile hag, with yellow teeth. And then she realizes she's actually drinking excrement not tea!!:o eww!
The entity also taps into her fear of sexual abuse from her father. That's mainly what the novel is all about isn't it? this thing that latches onto your darkest fears and realises them!!
He isn't blind, or going blind.
http://stephenking.com/faq.html
You should read the book, much more scary and loads more in it than the movie. The book makes the movie look like a Disney kids film, much more dark and nasty in places too:o