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Post by naterdawg on Feb 5, 2017 2:18:56 GMT
Remember when a Stephen King mini-series used to be an event? I hunkered down and watched the original broadcast of his Salem's Lot in November of 1979 and enjoyed every minute of it! What King mini-series do you fondly recall?
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Post by Doctor Omega on Feb 5, 2017 12:51:59 GMT
Seconding Salem's Lot here.
That scared the crap out of me as a kid, especially the fog floating, scratching window bit and Mister Barlow and his cloak rising from the kitchen floor!
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Post by naterdawg on Feb 5, 2017 16:12:47 GMT
Oh, yeah, that bedroom/floating outside the window scene is a classic! I also liked King's IT, especially the first half. Not so interesting when the kids became adults. Anyone see King's version of The Shining? Comments?
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Post by Doctor Omega on Feb 5, 2017 17:31:12 GMT
Yes - and I saw the crazy conspiracy film, ROOM 237 too, half believing each theory as the film went on. Gullible is my middle name! Then I eventually come to my senses!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2017 1:47:49 GMT
I bought "Kingdom Hospital" on dvd last year and still not viewed. I just happened to find it in a bargain bin to add to my collection. I have to stop doing that, lol.
Has anyone seen it? Any good?
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Post by Reynard on Feb 6, 2017 3:43:34 GMT
IT really goes downhill during the second half. The kids are so much better actors than the adults.
I have always liked The Langoliers though it's not a popular choice. Time loops and other time-related anomalies terrify me.
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Post by naterdawg on Feb 6, 2017 6:38:15 GMT
I covered the filming of The Langoliers for Fangoria magazine.
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Post by Reynard on Feb 6, 2017 12:58:16 GMT
I covered the filming of The Langoliers for Fangoria magazine. Any interesting trivia? IMDb doesn't offer anything. Thinner, director Tom Holland's other adaption of King's work, is also good. Not much love for that either.
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Post by naterdawg on Feb 6, 2017 15:29:47 GMT
Ok, let's see what I've got about the Langoliers. I went up to the Bangor (Maine) International Jetport the same day Woodstock II was happening, in August of 1994. I'd been told to go to the lobby of the Mariott Hotel located there. So I did. As I was waiting, a young man came down and sat across from me. His hair was wet, I remember, and he looked vaguely familiar. I spoke up, "are you with the Langoliers crew?" I asked.
He looked at me, smiled, and said "yes." I was still trying to figure out where I'd seen him. He asked to look through my copy of Fangoria, and we started chatting. At one point, he said he'd been in Fangoria before, for "Sleepaway Camp." Then I realized I was speaking to Christopher Collet, who wasn't even on the cast list Fango had given me.
Within a few minutes, another man came down and said he was our driver. Chris and I got into a van and were brought over to a hangar. Inside, there was a real plane with the wings detached and part of the side open, so seats were visible. This is where the majority of the action took place while I was there.
I spent about four hours on set and ate with the stars in a tent. At my table was David Morse and Frankie Faison, whom I recognized from Silence of the Lambs. Lots of jovial talk. Then we all went back into the hangar, and an important scene was filmed involving special effects. The character played by Bronson Pinchot was slowly going insane, and he was seeing his fellow passengers as monsters. There was an involved shot of one of them, with basically a nylon stocking over his head and ooze coming out of his eyes and ears and mouth. This did not end up in the actual cut.
Unlike the first movie I covered for Fangoria, which was Pet Sematary in 1988, there was an actual press person there to show me around. We looked at all the make-up effects and how they were to be applied. At one point, I interviewed Bronson Pinchot in his trailer. He was short, I recall! We talked about True Romance, which he considered his big dramatic breakthrough. He wanted to be seen as a dramatic actor and not the comedy persona from Perfect Strangers. Pinchot looked at The Langoliers as another step toward achieving that goal. Alas, I don't think it worked out for him.
My set visit appeared as Taking Off With the Langoliers in the May 1995 issue.
I also covered the filming of Thinner the next year.
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Post by mark on Feb 6, 2017 20:30:04 GMT
I bought "Kingdom Hospital" on dvd last year and still not viewed. I just happened to find it in a bargain bin to add to my collection. I have to stop doing that, lol. Has anyone seen it? Any good? Kingdom Hospital is OK but not great. IMHO it is nowhere near as good as the Danish original Riget (The Kingdom) which was genuinely weird and creepy. Both can be a bit confusing and both have recurring motifs and subtexts to watch out for.
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Post by Reynard on Feb 6, 2017 21:00:47 GMT
Thanks for sharing your memories about The Langoliers, naterdawg. Did you get to meet Tom Holland? He pretty much disappeared after Thinner.
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Post by naterdawg on Feb 7, 2017 1:34:35 GMT
Thanks for sharing your memories about The Langoliers, naterdawg. Did you get to meet Tom Holland? He pretty much disappeared after Thinner. Yes, I interviewed him on the set, and he said his next film assignment would be Thinner. A year later, I was in Camden, Maine (where Peyton Place had been filmed), watching Holland direct Thinner!
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Post by ironjade on Feb 8, 2017 12:28:50 GMT
I liked Rose Red, although it ran out of steam towards the end. Storm of the Century was also good.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2017 15:37:47 GMT
I remember being extremely impressed by Tobe Hooper's version of Salem's Lot. Great tv production. Still rate it as one of the best adaptation of Stephen King. I would have been bout 12 or 13 at the time. Even after countless viewings, I still love it.
On the other side of your question. I Watched IT again recently, it was nowhere near a good as I remembered.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2017 4:57:28 GMT
Storm of the Century is my fav. I still often randomly say 'give me what I want and I'll go away'
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Post by novastar6 on Feb 20, 2017 5:36:31 GMT
The Stand. I'm actually surprised I haven't seen anyone else mention it. I caught the beginning of it on Sci-Fi channel, and you could tell just by looking at it that it was older, something from the 90s, so before I even knew what it was, I wanted to see what was going on. And how eerie when Fran's dad is listening to the radio, they call it 'swine flu', and I saw this the winter my family and I were recovering FROM swine flu. Cue the Twilight Zone music.
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Post by kaasa on Feb 20, 2017 7:18:53 GMT
I still have my IT VHS and have always loved the mini-series. I read on IMDb about the DVD release having each half on different sides of the disc, so instead of watching it straightforward you have to take the disc out and flip it over!
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Post by naterdawg on Feb 20, 2017 14:21:14 GMT
The Stand. I'm actually surprised I haven't seen anyone else mention it. I caught the beginning of it on Sci-Fi channel, and you could tell just by looking at it that it was older, something from the 90s, so before I even knew what it was, I wanted to see what was going on. And how eerie when Fran's dad is listening to the radio, they call it 'swine flu', and I saw this the winter my family and I were recovering FROM swine flu. Cue the Twilight Zone music. The Stand isn't one of my favorite King novels--just too bloated--and though I watched all of the mini-series way back when, I didn't like that, either. Later, I watched it on SyFy and was shocked that they'd edited out words like "bastard" and "bitch," when ABC hadn't. That struck me as really odd. The only scene I remember with any clarity is the very beginning. As the credits roll, we hear "Don't Fear the Reaper," and the camera slowly pans over a military installation where all the people died where they were sitting or standing. Very effective, but the rest of the show just didn't live up to that great ending. Part of it, for me at least, was the actor playing Randall Flagg. Disliked him immensely.
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Post by novastar6 on Feb 20, 2017 15:20:18 GMT
The Stand. I'm actually surprised I haven't seen anyone else mention it. I caught the beginning of it on Sci-Fi channel, and you could tell just by looking at it that it was older, something from the 90s, so before I even knew what it was, I wanted to see what was going on. And how eerie when Fran's dad is listening to the radio, they call it 'swine flu', and I saw this the winter my family and I were recovering FROM swine flu. Cue the Twilight Zone music. The Stand isn't one of my favorite King novels--just too bloated--and though I watched all of the mini-series way back when, I didn't like that, either. Later, I watched it on SyFy and was shocked that they'd edited out words like "bastard" and "bitch," when ABC hadn't. That struck me as really odd. The only scene I remember with any clarity is the very beginning. As the credits roll, we hear "Don't Fear the Reaper," and the camera slowly pans over a military installation where all the people died where they were sitting or standing. Very effective, but the rest of the show just didn't live up to that great ending. Part of it, for me at least, was the actor playing Randall Flagg. Disliked him immensely. Yes, that opening scene was most memorable, and it was THE creepiest really, and it's odd that it's so creepy when the disease is still contained and it really only effects a few, you still see the TV running, people on game shows, completely oblivious to what's coming, and somehow that's more eerie than when everybody's died out from it.
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Post by naterdawg on Feb 20, 2017 15:33:18 GMT
And the eeriest thing for me is that the superflu was so quick, it killed you literally on the spot.
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