I've never read SK, but his movies (aside from Kubrick's The Shining) are terrible. I've always wondered if his writing is as hackneyed as Kathie Bates' dialogue in Misery (which was his second best movie)
Not that anon but back in the 70s it was a lot easier to make a soundproof room and grab a kid off the street without anyone knowing. Forensics are insane nowadays.
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>it was a lot easier to make a soundproof room
why would that be hard these days? >grab a kid off the street without anyone knowing
This still occurs. There are thousands of missing kids across Burgerland
He doesn't rape them at all, he just kills them for being naughty boys. His MO is to just sit in his kitchen shirtless waiting to 1v1 the boys with a belt. It actually makes no sense because you would think beating the boys would make a ton of noise and his brother sleeps upstairs
>the movie is about the homosexual kid learning to rely on himself >meanwhile every step of the way he is told what to do by ghosts >a ghost even tells him to stand up for himself and tells him the exact method to hit a man with a phone because he is such a stupid dipshit he can't even do that unassisted >somehow the homosexual kid who is powerless against bullies has george mcfly superstrength and neckbreaks a full grown muscular man >director realizes this movie has like 10 minutes of plot so he pads it out with useless fricking trash like muh sister's dreams and coked out columbo brother that don't amount to anything
This movie is a complete waste of time
Saw it on opening night while going on a date with a Asian girl.
Think they were trying to be like Split and Stranger Things too hard or something. The ratings say 8/10, but it's maybe like a 6.7/10 MAX. Had one good jump scare, that's pretty much it
Made my move in the middle of the movie, we held hands. Then at the end of the date I kissed her.
Went on one more date after that one but didn't really work out down the road
Maybe if thriller movies with kids protagonist and that take place in the 70-80s make you think of specifically Stranger Things that’s your fault?
My theory is that the grabber and his brother were also beat by their dad as a kid like the main characters but the grabber gets it out through Naughty Boy and the brother copes with nonstop coke and conspiracy theories.
It would be disappointing, if I had any hopes for it, which I didn't. The marketing kept saying how Ethan Hawke's performance was amazing, but it was pretty cringe. Like he took inspiration from Jared Leto's Joker at times
I kept thinking he looked like Joaquin lmfao, the short story has him as a blubbering sweaty fat guy but I guess they can’t make the villain a caricature of fat people.
Entire subplot with the sister was completely pointless. It culminated to a thriller moment that was trying to make the audience go 'omg it was the wrong house will the kid survive????' and it felt so transparent and stupid.
Also the idea of a pencil-thin kid snapping an adult male's neck with a single jerking motion and a telephone cord is the most ridiculous shit
All the subplots were pointless. The whole movie was pointless.
I think the stupidest shit is when his master plan was to slap the Grabbler with a phone filled with dirt rather than caving his skull in with the toilet lid.
this, no way that little gay could hit him with the toilet lid up in the head.
i liked the movie but the neck breaking made no sense, is there any reason why they didn’t just have him choke him to death with the wire?
It sucked
I could taste Stephen King's dreck writing as I watched
Then I found out it's by his son
I can taste King's lack of talent
I've never read SK, but his movies (aside from Kubrick's The Shining) are terrible. I've always wondered if his writing is as hackneyed as Kathie Bates' dialogue in Misery (which was his second best movie)
Carrie is a good movie
He doesn't make the movies, moron, except for Maximum Overdrive which was based.
>THERE’S THE CHUD, GET EM SPIDER
Awful. Trying to capitalize on Stranger Things I'm guessing.
>Stranger Things
I don't see the correlation
retro era, kids, horror
The setting fits the premise, how would you make this movie if it was set in the present?
Make him a Black person.
Why would it not work in the current year? The phone was old and out of use already in the film, it could continue to be so.
Not that anon but back in the 70s it was a lot easier to make a soundproof room and grab a kid off the street without anyone knowing. Forensics are insane nowadays.
>it was a lot easier to make a soundproof room
why would that be hard these days?
>grab a kid off the street without anyone knowing
This still occurs. There are thousands of missing kids across Burgerland
Very good
I regret he didn't direct Dr Strange 2 instead of Hack Raimi
So does he rape the boys before or after he kills them? The one kid said the part after he belts them is his favorite part.
He doesn't rape them at all, he just kills them for being naughty boys. His MO is to just sit in his kitchen shirtless waiting to 1v1 the boys with a belt. It actually makes no sense because you would think beating the boys would make a ton of noise and his brother sleeps upstairs
>the movie is about the homosexual kid learning to rely on himself
>meanwhile every step of the way he is told what to do by ghosts
>a ghost even tells him to stand up for himself and tells him the exact method to hit a man with a phone because he is such a stupid dipshit he can't even do that unassisted
>somehow the homosexual kid who is powerless against bullies has george mcfly superstrength and neckbreaks a full grown muscular man
>director realizes this movie has like 10 minutes of plot so he pads it out with useless fricking trash like muh sister's dreams and coked out columbo brother that don't amount to anything
This movie is a complete waste of time
The coked out brother is from the original short story, the whole scene with the ax is the same.
SUCKED
Saw it on opening night while going on a date with a Asian girl.
Think they were trying to be like Split and Stranger Things too hard or something. The ratings say 8/10, but it's maybe like a 6.7/10 MAX. Had one good jump scare, that's pretty much it
Maybe if thriller movies with kids protagonist and that take place in the 70-80s make you think of specifically Stranger Things that’s your fault?
How did the date go?
Made my move in the middle of the movie, we held hands. Then at the end of the date I kissed her.
Went on one more date after that one but didn't really work out down the road
I've never seen Stranger Things
Basically a youtube "horror" short movie stretched to 2 hours, not even worth pirating.
History should have been about the phone and the villain.
In general, I find serial killers to be disgusting and boring,
How did he get away from all these crimes without the brother hearing none of the kids sneaking out and seeing him shirtless?
The brother lived in the house across the street, he was just staying at the house for most of the week.
It was ok i guess
My theory is that the grabber and his brother were also beat by their dad as a kid like the main characters but the grabber gets it out through Naughty Boy and the brother copes with nonstop coke and conspiracy theories.
Is that a white thing? Asian parents beat their kids and they grow up fine.
hahahahahahaha
Basically
>the grabbler
It would be disappointing, if I had any hopes for it, which I didn't. The marketing kept saying how Ethan Hawke's performance was amazing, but it was pretty cringe. Like he took inspiration from Jared Leto's Joker at times
I kept thinking he looked like Joaquin lmfao, the short story has him as a blubbering sweaty fat guy but I guess they can’t make the villain a caricature of fat people.
bad, didnt finish
Entire subplot with the sister was completely pointless. It culminated to a thriller moment that was trying to make the audience go 'omg it was the wrong house will the kid survive????' and it felt so transparent and stupid.
Also the idea of a pencil-thin kid snapping an adult male's neck with a single jerking motion and a telephone cord is the most ridiculous shit
All the subplots were pointless. The whole movie was pointless.
I think the stupidest shit is when his master plan was to slap the Grabbler with a phone filled with dirt rather than caving his skull in with the toilet lid.
I think the idea was "he wouldn't expect the phone"
this, no way that little gay could hit him with the toilet lid up in the head.
i liked the movie but the neck breaking made no sense, is there any reason why they didn’t just have him choke him to death with the wire?
He couldn't hit him with the toilet lid but he could fricking break his neck with 1 arm? Dude....
i pretend the neck snapping part didn’t happen
It's the cinematic equivalent to Halloween haunted shed but with worse performances from the actors.
Are we forgetting how the little gay tunneled through the wall with that toilet lid?
This movie is shilled hard.
I kept seeing the mask in advertisements and stuff and was thinking it was gonna be some artsy korean film.