Crap No-one Needs, #9
Stephen King
How did Stephen King get a reputation as a great horror writer? He's certainly prolific, and a lot of his stuff has been made into movies, but I have to say that it's mostly utter shit. I rented "1408" last week, the film based on his short story about a haunted hotel room. It started out promisingly enough; the idea of a haunted hotel room is a great concept to me since I spend half my life in hotel rooms, some of them occasionally creepy. But as is usual with anything that this twat writes, he completely loses the plot. The whole point of good horror is that you can suspend disbelief and imagine that this could be happening to you. You see yourself walking down that corridor with the flickering light in the abandoned asylum, fearing that the spectre of the sadistic old doctor could at any moment appear in front of you. When in "1408" the whole hotel room suddenly fills up with sea water and breaks up you just give up - it's bollocks.
I heard someone on the radio state that King doesn't know how to do endings, and they were right. He gets an idea, works it for a bit and then the plot escalates to some fucking bullshit ending that makes no sense at all. Consequently I'm not watching anything that this overrated prick has written ever again. He can stick his Mist up his arse.
How did Stephen King get a reputation as a great horror writer? He's certainly prolific, and a lot of his stuff has been made into movies, but I have to say that it's mostly utter shit. I rented "1408" last week, the film based on his short story about a haunted hotel room. It started out promisingly enough; the idea of a haunted hotel room is a great concept to me since I spend half my life in hotel rooms, some of them occasionally creepy. But as is usual with anything that this twat writes, he completely loses the plot. The whole point of good horror is that you can suspend disbelief and imagine that this could be happening to you. You see yourself walking down that corridor with the flickering light in the abandoned asylum, fearing that the spectre of the sadistic old doctor could at any moment appear in front of you. When in "1408" the whole hotel room suddenly fills up with sea water and breaks up you just give up - it's bollocks.
I heard someone on the radio state that King doesn't know how to do endings, and they were right. He gets an idea, works it for a bit and then the plot escalates to some fucking bullshit ending that makes no sense at all. Consequently I'm not watching anything that this overrated prick has written ever again. He can stick his Mist up his arse.
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