Stephen King

Lazario · Post by **Lazario** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 1:17 pm

You know what - on second thought, you should see Firestarter. I think you would benefit from a viewing of it. It's not at all like Salem's Lot.

And I thought Salem's Lot (1979) was very good.

Disneyfreak1990 · Post by **Disneyfreak1990** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 1:54 pm

i'm nearly done with 'salem's Lot and when it's over i'm going to do The Shining.

i'm looking forward to that one.

Jasmine1022 · Post by **Jasmine1022** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:16 pm

did you enjoy 'salem's lot?

Disneyfreak1990 · Post by **Disneyfreak1990** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 1:15 pm

i haven't exactly finished but i'm halfway through with The Lot(IV). i'm loving it and can't wait for the ending. after i'm done with the whole book i'm going to go to Hastings and get another SK and 'salem's Lot Illistratued Edition. i want to get it again since it got revised and illistratued in 2005 and it includes the short stories Jerusalem's Lot and One For The Road, a prequel and sequel to the story. some of the added scenes are: (spoilers to those who haven't read the original or haven't finished.)
Different names for the town and the vampire; ’Salem’s Lot is called Momson (mentioned in the final text of the book as a Vermont town whose residents mysteriously vanished in 1923), and Barlow is referred to as Sarlinov.
A conversation between Ben and Susan about the true nature of evil.
An extended scene of Straker delivering his sacrifice to his "dark father."
A scene in which after being pronounced dead, Danny Glick's vampirism is foreshadowed much more prominently.
Barlow’s letter to the protagonists is now a cassette recording. A vampiric Susan is with him.
A more gruesome fate for Dr. Jimmy Cody. In the original manuscript, he is impaled by knives in a trap set by the vampires. Here, he is devoured alive by rats.
More scenes of vampires causing chaos; Sandy McDougall is bitten by her infant son Randy, Dud Rogers bites Ruthie Crockett. Later, the aforementioned McDougalls are slain by Jimmy Cody.
Father Callahan, the town's troubled Roman Catholic priest, goes out differently. Rather than forced to drink Barlow’s blood and leaving town damned, he marks the vampire with a knife before committing suicide. Furious, the vampire desecrates the priest’s body, decapitating it and hanging it upside down.
Barlow is killed by sunlight rather than a stake through the heart. More rats are present in the final showdown as well.

the other book i might get would probably be his next book The Stand though it will probably be hard to find the original unedited version.

probably about as hard as trying to find The Rage since it's out of print and also the early version of The Gunslinger.

an update on his new books. Blaze is estimated to come this summer while the Duma Key is rumored to come in Janurary.

a question Jasmine the 'salem's Lot film you saw, did it have Donal Sutherland in it cause if it did then what you saw was the newer one but if it didn't then it's the older one or it's sequel.

Lazario · Post by **Lazario** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 9:38 pm

Jasmine1022 wrote:did you enjoy 'salem's lot?

The 1979 version is quite slow. But that's what makes it scary. And it is very scary. The jail cell attack scene is, to this day, actually quite famous among cinematic scare-moments. As is the scene of the little dead boy tapping on his older brother's window as he sleeps. That moment still gives me goosebumps from when I remember having first seen it. It doesn't get any spookier than that. Those eyes, the fog, the scratching... And it's got one of the best psychological moments of any King adaptation - the scene where drunk-ish George Dzundza catches his wife cheating on him with Fred Williams (?) (the funny guy in all those comedies now- A Mighty Wind, I think, and all that) and is carrying a shotgun... It's so suspenseful but quiet... I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. There's also a couple other scenes that are very reknowned for giving people the chills too - one at a hospital and one at the head vampire's creepy old house near the end when he kills someone.

Disneyfreak1990 · Post by **Disneyfreak1990** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:46 pm

i finished 'salem's Lot yesterday and am reading The Shining. a little slow like 'salem's Lot but good. i guess thats how he starts with his early books. slow and steady.

the creepiest SK film i saw was to me Rose Red since it was slow to get everything which made it more creepy and the one that creeped me least was Carrie since i felt more sorry for her than scared since all she wanted was to fit in.

Lazario · Post by **Lazario** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 9:34 pm

Yeah, Brian De Palma's 1976 film adaptation of his book Carrie is one of the top 10 greatest post-1967 horror films ever made. But is it scary? It's hard to find it scary because of the fact that it's a very sad story about an outsider who doesn't want to be a tragic figure. She wants to try to be normal, to be like other people. But she was a victim of some strangely overzealous religious upbringing. It's all a bit too real to be even that shocking for most people. But it is really a shock-horror film and... if you don't really understand horror, it might be hard to see this film as creepy, scary, or even horror. I guess because it's so darn good and because Brian De Palma has made horror films before and since Carrie that this film just belongs to the horror genre.

Disneyfreak1990 · Post by **Disneyfreak1990** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 6:55 pm

it's considered a horror because of this fact, it's got a killer, Carrie, murdering people for a reason or no reason, revenge for embarassing her. and also because the book was a horror since she destroys half the town and a lot of people are killed just because of a prank.

Disneyfreak1990 · Post by **Disneyfreak1990** » Thu May 10, 2007 9:45 pm

i got my new book recently. the title is Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales 1408 Movie Tie-in Edition Cover. the third story was wierd even for SK.

Jasmine1022 · Post by **Jasmine1022** » Fri May 11, 2007 8:53 pm

i think i have that. is the cover white, covered in, like, a really bloody scene? i never read all the stories because they got dumb. i loved the first one, though.

Disneyfreak1990 · Post by **Disneyfreak1990** » Fri May 11, 2007 10:41 pm

the original cover was white with a glass of water with blood in it. the new one is the poster for the 1408 film.

Jasmine1022 · Post by **Jasmine1022** » Sat May 12, 2007 6:19 am

yeah, that's the same one i have. do you like the stories? if the rest are good, maybe i'll read some.

Disneyfreak1990 · Post by **Disneyfreak1990** » Sat May 12, 2007 10:13 am

i'm only in the fourth one. i liked the first two but the third one confused me on everything. so far i'm loving the fourth one. and if you want to understand the Dark Tower better you have to read The Little Sisters Of Eleria since it is a Dark Tower story.

Jasmine1022 · Post by **Jasmine1022** » Sun May 13, 2007 2:23 pm

i actually have one of those books, but i never got into it.

PeterPanfan · Post by **PeterPanfan** » Wed Mar 10, 2010 3:26 pm

I wanted to revive this thread since I just finished my first King book, "Carrie", two days ago, and am now on my second, "Rage."

I really enjoyed Carrie, but didn't like it as much as it seems to be liked. Perhaps it is because I saw both the 1976 movie and the tv remake before reading it.

Anyone else a fan?

Margos · Post by **Margos** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 2:44 pm

I adore Stephen King. I've read several of his books, and enjoyed them all. I gotta say, though, I just finished The Tommyknockers, and I really was quite scared!

Chernabog_Rocks · Post by **Chernabog_Rocks** » Sun Mar 14, 2010 11:48 pm

I found Carrie to be a good book. The movie was rather lacking in my opinion. I felt it could have been better if it had put more things from the book in. Haven't read it in a while, but hope to eventually re-read it when I have some time to spare.

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