>anyway now that the movie is 5 minutes from ending let me tell you that the reason he was killing everyone was to feed an underground race of prehistoric creatures that need human flesh to live
kek wtf
>anyway now that the movie is 5 minutes from ending let me tell you that the reason he was killing everyone was to feed an underground race of preh...
Lost me at undergrounders. israelites dont live underground.
>movie plot follows books
it doesn't though. it adds a bunch of unnecessary dumb shit that bogs down the impact of the reveal
oh I didn't realize you were a nagger who can't read, my apologies
>Cinemaphilelet gets mad someone won't read his schlock
I don't know how you got the impression I was mad, I apologized, I get it, not every nagger can read. enjoy your tik tok clips and kfc
why are you seething so heavily Cinemaphilelet
What if they didn't feed the creatures?
I did wonder why they didn't just kill the creatures instead. If they need to eat every day, they can be killed. If 6 bodies feeds all of them, there can't be that many.
The book is better and more precise and succinct. They added a whole mess of story with the photographer protagonist in the film to bulk up the run time and make it a movie when in reality it only actually works pacing wise as a short story because the meat (heh) of the story is in that pivotal reveal, but the movies shoves it all condensed into the end and it feels stupid.
tldr read the fucking short story, it takes like 10 mins and clive barker is a genius
>read
>clive barker is a genius
Clive Barker creeps me out. I feel like there's genuine evil in some of his stories, unlike King, for example.
king is a child diddler, at least barker is just openly gay
True. Barker really taps into the animalistic and brutal side of humans while King is more of a "fun rollercoaster ride" kind of writer.
Clive Barker is mentally ill, no doubt about that. Excellent writer though
Reading books of blood I'm almost of the opposite opinion. He has so many shitty "humorous" stories
there was one that was kind of funny about the dad trying to pretend a demon doesn't bother him, but i can't recall any other ones
The Yattering and Jack. It wasn't a demon, it was a little imp that served Beelzebub, and he knew he could catch it if he could only make it reveal itself, and in the end, he won. It was after him because his mother was a witch who sold her soul, but repented and went to heaven, so the imp was sent to torment her first born into doing something that would get him damned.
>Subsidence
>Que sera sera
I was trying not to spoil the story by being vague ;_;
Not that anon, but I remember there being a few. Rawhead Rex read like a comedy to me.
I actually preferred the comedy ones at times. The short story about the hands was pretty fun.
The Body Politic
Spoilers are for children, women, and gays. The writing is what's important, or the film making, not some Shamalamadingdong twist.
Honestly, I don't know where I come down on Barker as a writer. I've read King up to Firestarter / Running Man, and as tired as I am of his storytelling, he has never produced anything as unreadable as The Damnation Game. I will pay respects where they are due. There are some fantastic short stories. Particularly, I liked the one with the pool to another dimension. King is fundamentally interested in people where Barker isn't, and I think that's why his books never really caught on. He doesn't know how to build an interesting character, and is more preoccupied with the central idea or mythos of the stories than he is with the formalities of storytelling. His writing is clean and evocative, but reading through his shorts consecutively, you do find yourself wanting more.
King is less creative and a worse writer overall but between the two of them he's definitely more evil.
Works better as a short story I guess
Or maybe they could have expanded on the underground people
I just read the Wikipedia plot synopsis for this film and it sounds dumb as fuck. Who wouldn't notice hundreds of people and nightly killings on the New York subway. And if they don't feed them at night they attack people during the day? So what then, just let them and people will wipe the creatures out once they realise.
Fucking retarded concept, Creep does the ungrounded train Station horror much better, with maintenance work opening up an old station that had been sealed up where someone had been stuck in it and turned feral, unleashing them on the people riding the train that night.
ahem, the book explains it better. nagger
The book doesn't "explain it better" the movie just completely fails. You don't have to defend this steaming pile of shit.
>we're just feeding people to some ancient race to keep them alive for some reason.
>no no one has noticed despite us doing this for a very long time.
>Who wouldn't notice hundreds of people and nightly killings on the New York subway
lol
>Who wouldn't notice hundreds of people and nightly killings on the New York subway
It's unnerving how massive Vinny James pupils are in this poster
This movie sucks so fucking bad. The actual short story is K I N O though
The movie is an allegory for a man becoming homosexual. I'm not even remotely kidding. There's a lot to say about how he eventually fucks his gf anally against her enjoyment, her dying at the end ceremoniously (thus removing her from his life), his obsession with Vinnie Jones' "Mahogany" character (the guy's named after stiff wood for Christ's sake), his insane obsession with red meat, becoming the new version of Vinnie Jones, and of course the title of the movie.
I mean, the whole movie revolves around men chasing meat.
This comment is an example of a man teetering on the edge of fucking a femboy
Uh, anon, is there anything you want to get off your chest?