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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2009 21:08:46 GMT -4
The House Next Door was made into a really awful Lifetime movie starring Lara Flynn Boyle, who seems drunk/heavily medicated throughout the entire thing. Truly one of the weirdest things I've ever seen on television.
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Post by Smilla on May 20, 2009 22:20:20 GMT -4
I was just wondering if anyone had adapted it for film. But Lara Flynn Boyle? Sounds like it bit.
The book, which I just finished, is excellent. I would recommend it to anybody here.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2009 1:22:18 GMT -4
I love The House Next Door. I picked it up at a library sale several years ago. It is very eerie. I was bugged by Colquitt at first, as she was a wee bit full of herself with her talk of substantial people, etc, but I've reread it several times and still find it chilling.
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Post by biondetta on May 21, 2009 7:24:52 GMT -4
I've bought The House Next Door twice over the years, forgetting that I'd read it already. I've enjoyed it every time I've read it. The Lifetime version of the movie was ok, except for the distraction that was Lara Flynn Boyle's lips. They ended up being the scariest part of that film adaptation!
Right now, I'm rereading Mean Spirit, by Will Kingdom (a pen name of Phil Rickman). As I've said before, I love Rickman's characters and supernatural tales that aren't in your face with the spook side. He doesn't spell it all out for you, so often you're left to decide for yourself whether it was supernatural or not. This particular book revolves around a medium and a criminal with an interest in mediums and longevity.
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Post by wilbert on Jun 3, 2009 16:52:56 GMT -4
Guillermo del Toro has written a vampire book. Over at gawker there's a trailer he made to go with the book. If the trailer is anything to go by, omg-I need the book now!
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Post by ikmccall on Jun 3, 2009 19:15:16 GMT -4
del Toro's book was originally supposed to be a screenplay. When he couldn't get a movie deal with it, he released it as a novel.
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Post by Smilla on Jun 4, 2009 9:54:56 GMT -4
I've been re-exploring the work of Robert Bloch, and yikes, it's creepy as hell. I just finished his short piece, "The Animal Fair," and I feel like I need a shower.
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Post by tabby on Jun 5, 2009 9:37:11 GMT -4
Ooh, I haven't read Bloch in years, but, yeah, he wrote some creepy stuff. I think he was also the one who said, "I have the heart of a little boy. It's pickled in formaldehyde in a jar on my desk."
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Post by Smilla on Jun 5, 2009 18:36:19 GMT -4
I've seen that quote most often sourced to Stephen King, but I wouldn't be surprised if King stole it from Bloch. (I have an anthology in which Stephen King wrote that his favorite horror short story was Bloch's "Sweets to the Sweet," which is also uber-creepy...in an awesome way.)
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Post by mariposalabrown on Jun 5, 2009 20:29:13 GMT -4
I just went thought this thread and put a zillion things on my amazon wish list. Shows the kind of person I am! For creepy, it's been said before, but I still haven't picked up House of Leaves again, I made it around 400 pages in, and had what I can only describe as a panic attack.
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