MIGUELGOMEZ said:

I'm not sure. The first "Shining" movie really did have a scary setting, and I'm not sure just where the mini-series version was filmed.

I thought the interior was filmed in one hotel, and the exterior in another one.

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

Yeah! See, there ARE hauntings people! No one believes me when I tell them about my ghost-filled house that I lived in at one time.

sextonseven said:

It is often said that if you don't understand something...or how deep something truly is believed, you don't mess with it...and that is very true of voodoo and the like....those kids sauntered their asses in the woods with a know it all attitude and ended up getting f*&ked up....

good for 'em....

minneapolisgenius said:

Yes, exactly. I have to figure out which is which. I would love to stand in that huge hall with the enormous staircase.


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MIGUELGOMEZ said:

I know. You know in the book there wasn't a hedge maze at all. There were hedge topiary animals that would move (and bite ). Also, those creepy little girls of the previous caretaker don't even exist in the book. Well, they do in passing. They're mentioned once and that's it.

Plus, Danny never rode around on his Bigwheel in the book either. And Jack doesn't use an ax to try and kill them. He uses a roque (croquet) mallet to try and beat them to death. And Dick Halloran doesn't get killed when he comes to save them. He gets hurt, but he lives and rescues them.

Oh, and the whole hotel blows up at the end because Jack forgets to dump the boiler in the basement. And he dies that way, not from freezing to death. Geez, the movie's a COMPLETELY different story like I said.

minneapolisgenius said:

I was a huge Stephen King fan at the time the movie came out. I never read the book though. I should've.


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MIGUELGOMEZ said:

READ IT! It will scare the crap out of you. Although, I just told you the whole thing now.
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Roger Ebert says it best:

http://rogerebert.suntime...60301/1023

Tom said:

That movie's awesome. Not scary, though.

applekisses said:

HA!

althom said:

SHUT UP!

Watch it, Apples, I want your reaction.

minneapolisgenius said:

I lived in one too.A poltergeist or something was there, very annoying it all was too. Couldn't keep that damn house clean for anything. Rooms locking themselves shut from the inside. Freezing cold spots, footsteps and things dropping upstairs when no one was there. Annoying.

Yeah, for weeks after I saw that film, the concept of some dude randomly standing in a corner was terrifying.

Great, minimalist suspense. But way too long.

The film was less then an hour and a half?

shellyevon said:

Without question the last scene is the scariest, I watched it by myself in the dark and I was okay until the last scene then the whole movie came together for me, SOB!!! It freaked me out I couldn't go to sleep even with the lights on, I was up looking around thinking I saw or heard something, it was ridiculous, I'll never watch it again.

NAnomaly said:

talkin bout blair witch right? I'm right with you on that one! It's the way the movie let's you figure out the horrible conclusion with just that one image of the guy standing in the corner. All of a sudden all the stories are REAL. When you actually come up with the thought, the realization, it's so intense.

Blair Witch Project was the wackest movie this side of... well... Blair Witch Project II! Great concept and awesome hype campaign, but the movie itself was not in a single instant scary... plus it didn't make sense! What fools, lost and starving in the woods, hunted by "something," and eventually with a friend who goes missing, are gonna keep a cam going?