Does anyone know if Stephen King liked this movie or not?
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COTCgirl — 15 years ago(November 05, 2010 12:53 AM)
I own a book called "The Films of Stephen King" and in it, it has reviews from King on all of the movies made from his books. This is what it says about COTC.
"My feeling. . . (for most movies made from his books) is like a guy who sends his daughter off to college. You hope she'll do well. You hope she won't fall in with the wrong people. You hope she won't be raped at a fraternity party, which is pretty well what happened to Children of the Corn."
From an interview with Stephen King by Craig Modderno, Published in USA Today, May 1995
So evidentally he hated it.
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Little_Korean — 15 years ago(February 04, 2011 06:21 AM)
"My feeling. . . (for most movies made from his books) is like a guy who sends his daughter off to college. You hope she'll do well. You hope she won't fall in with the wrong people. You hope she won't be raped at a fraternity party, which is pretty well what happened to Children of the Corn."
So I'm guessingthat he didn't like it?
Hard to tell here
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preppy-3 — 14 years ago(September 12, 2011 05:49 AM)
Who could like this movie? It took a creepy little short story and tore it apart. I saw it in a theatre way back in 1984. At first the audience was quiet and getting into it but the movie slowly (VERY slowly) got stupider and stupider and finally people were laughing at it by the end! King hated this but he hated "Graveyard Shift" even more.
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Thamauturge — 14 years ago(October 23, 2011 02:43 PM)
Well, to be honest I thought that this movie did a better job than the original story in terms of giving character to the children. The book was much more focused on the couple.
However, the terrible special effects and the overly cliched Hollywood happy ending are the main bad things in the film. It starts out strong and is pretty entertaining throughout, up until those HORRIBLE special effects that really shouldn't have been in the movie at all.
I slew your king, I slew your country. Do these deeds not demand vengeance?
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tony23-3 — 14 years ago(October 24, 2011 12:00 PM)
"However, the terrible special effects and the overly cliched Hollywood happy ending are the main bad things in the film."
I saw the remake last night, and it definitely did NOT have a "Hollywood happy ending". How did the original end? -
Thamauturge — 14 years ago(October 24, 2011 02:22 PM)
Well, I haven't seen the TV movie remake.
This one had an ending where Burt and Vicky both live, defeat He Who Walks Behind The Rows, and live happily ever after with the two "good" kids.
I slew your king, I slew your country. Do these deeds not demand vengeance?
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britney_2005 — 13 years ago(May 11, 2012 09:12 AM)
Actually buddy, millions of people love this 'little' movie! Evidently it has struck a chord with the public considering that it's the longest running series of any Stephen King adaptation. And the story was a very average and unremarkable bit of bedtime reading, which didn't translate well to the screen. And most people despise the remake. In fact, after the remake was released people have started to realise that this movie isn't actually as bad as they originally thought. It certainly took skill to make this movie into a classic. And remember that this movie cost $800,000 to makeStephen King then pocketing 500,000 of that for doing nothing and then preceeded to slate the filmmakers efforts, just as he had done with Kubrick a few years earlier.
PS: Another thing you might want to remember: Stephen King directed 'Maximum Overdrive', therefore he's not in a position to critize other filmakers! -
preppy-3 — 13 years ago(May 11, 2012 09:46 AM)
So"Children" is good because its sequels sucked? Sorry but no. Just cause sequels suck (and most do) it doesn't automatically make the original a classic.
You're rightKing's "Maximum Overdrive" was terrible (he would agree with u BTW) but he's allowed to have his own opinion. Or can he not have an opinion because he made a bad movie? IMO "The Shining" and "Children" were terrible and I agree 100% with King. "The Shining" especially is disappointing considering it was Kubrick who directed it. The guy obviously had no idea how to direct a horror film. He took the book, made ill-conceived changes (why exactly did he kill Halloran?) and managed to destroy a very scary book. -
moosemania82 — 13 years ago(July 29, 2012 04:21 AM)
I always thought the film had great atmosphere, especially with the opening music and some good scares in the first few scenes, particularly in the scene where joseph is murdered trying to escape.
I first saw the film when it was released on VHS and i was still quite young,and those opening scenes scared me quite a bit and stayed with me.
But after Burt & Vicky reach Gatlin the film does go down hill and i dont recall anything remotely scary from then on.
And yeah the hollywood ending sucked, and even with the remake we have still never seen "He Who Walk Behind The Rows" in the way he was described in Kings story.
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hASEROT — 13 years ago(February 25, 2013 04:42 AM)
Kubrick's "The Shining" is a classic in world of psychological horror.. and notice I said Kubrick's, not King's while the novel I thought was good, and lends more backstory to some of the more unexplained bizarre moments of the movie (like the old lady in the bathtub and the guy dressed as bear going down on a man).. i feel that Kubrick's film was a brilliant recreation, not adaptation..
Kubrick stripped away a lot of the spooky ghost/haunted house nonsense, and really made it a visceral exercise of a man's subconscious resentment towards his son - a subconscious brought to the light and later personified when Jack ends up going crazy..
in my humble opinion at least..
a lot of films stray from their novel origins, but still remain very very good, ie: Jurassic Park..
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preppy-3 — 13 years ago(February 25, 2013 04:50 AM)
I'm glad u liked it but calling the book "nonsense" is going a little bit too far. Rememberwithout the book there never would have been a movie. The movie has never scared me and I've seen it multiple times trying to figure out why some people love it so much. Also, at every screening I've been to, people always laugh at Nicholoson's OTT performance. King didn't like it either.
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bayardhiler — 12 years ago(November 03, 2013 01:56 AM)
I'm sorry, but I have to disagree with you on Kubrick's version of "The Shining". It is true that Kubrick changed quite a bit in regards to King's original story. But you have to remember that the language of books is very different from the language of films. Case in point, Stephen King (and I believe Mick Garris) did a mini-series version of "The Shining" for television in which they basically adapted almost the entire book word for word on screen and the result was horrific, and not in a good way. For starters, it was wayyyy too long and second, it didn't have nearly the same tension that Kubrick's version did. King's a great writer but he often fails to understand that not everything in print is going to translate well to film.
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preppy-3 — 12 years ago(November 03, 2013 08:54 AM)
A lot of people disagree with me but seriouslythe movie never scared me. Not once. Most people seem to love it just because Kubrick did it. Kubrick was a great filmmaker but every filmmaker has their bad movies. IMO this was Kubrick's. Never saw the mini series but heard it was terrible.
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fun-niji — 11 years ago(October 23, 2014 10:14 PM)
I've never seen The Shinning yet. And it's not because of some "high" principal of sorts but just something personal - and nothing towards the film, director, writer, writer(s), etc.
Anyways, my best friend then saw The Shinning with other friends from school - this was some years ago. And she told me that it did not scare her one bit but made her cry incessantly. She told me she felt total sadness for the character played by Jack. So, it just goes to show, not everyone will have the same reaction as the expected majority would.