Hey how about turning on some lights. This isn't a Stephen King movie,

>> ^AdrianBlack:

I watched it, and I still disagree. I prefer to accept what King himself said as to where he gets his ideas rather than from a probie that doesn't really know.


Hahaha, what are you Stephen King's agent? You're obviously biased.

Let's see... both stories are about a man who has chronic OCD and believes he needs to do his rituals in order to save the world. If he stops, something really bad will happen that will cause the end of the world.

The psychologist obviously thinks the man is just suffering from a bad case of OCD and tries to rationalise with the patient to "prove" it's all in his head. But the patient says it's more than that; it's like a disease that can be transmitted to which the psychologists scoffs: "OCD is a mental illness, not a disease. It cannot be transmitted from person to person".

The patient (while not cured) eventually makes a small "breakthrough" and leaves never to see the doctor again. But now the psych has the OCD symptoms and learns the patient wasn't lying and it wasn't all in his head. Now the psych is the one who has to do the OCD rituals to save the world which drives him insane.

One was written prior to 2002 (Patterns) and one was written in 2008 (N). If you don't see the obvious similarities you are a moron mate. Good day

All 25? You have much fortitude. Thanks so much for the vote up even though it wasn't the best cup of tea. Great avatar, btw!

In reply to this comment by ponceleon:
Watched all 25. It was good, but not great. Haven't seen the other stuff though, so I can't comment on it being derivative.

>> ^AdrianBlack:

King in interviews and in the book itself said the story was inspired by Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan stating: "Not Lovecraft; it’s a riff on Arthur Machen’s “The Great God Pan,” which is one of the best horror stories ever written. Maybe the best in the English language. Mine isn’t anywhere near that good, but I loved the chance to put neurotic behavior—obsessive/compulsive disorder—together with the idea of a monster-filled macroverse." So, if anything, "Patterns" ripped off Machen.


Actually no. Patterns is just this WITHOUT the monster stuff - so it didn't rip off Machen and King definitely ripped it off Patterns. Watch it and see for yourself.

King in interviews and in the book itself said the story was inspired by Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan stating: "Not Lovecraft; it’s a riff on Arthur Machen’s “The Great God Pan,” which is one of the best horror stories ever written. Maybe the best in the English language. Mine isn’t anywhere near that good, but I loved the chance to put neurotic behavior—obsessive/compulsive disorder—together with the idea of a monster-filled macroverse." So, if anything, "Patterns" ripped off Machen.

In reply to this comment by NaMeCaF:
Wow, I really thought Stephen King was original, but this is a blatant rip off of an episode of Night Visions from 2002 called "Patterns".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0660998/

I wish I could downvote.

Wow, I really thought Stephen King was original, but this is a blatant rip off of an episode of Night Visions from 2002 called "Patterns".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0660998/

I wish I could downvote.

Whenever I think of a reason for not liking public school, first and foremost is being paddled in fourth grade for grabbing my book back from a teacher and cussing at her for wrestling it away from me again. It was a Stephen King book and I can't recall if it was The Stand or It.. "They" decided that it was too adult of a book for me, even though my dad had given it to me to read. Corporal punishment for having a college reading level is how I've always taken that..

It was a Good niche. Take classic architypes that creep people out. Stories that have been told for thousands of years around camp fires.

Ghosts & Aliens, Monsters and Demons. Everyone can identity, we're all with you. I can imaging being terrified of a ghost of a little girl in my bedroom.

Did he not realize he was supposed to be the director version of Stephen King?

But he didn't stick with it... Comic book heroes, Environmental lecturing, Mermaids, Early American settler society. Now you're in "who gives a shit" land.

You have been awarded 1 Power Point for fixing the embed code for Dead Pool video Stephen King's "Children of the Corn". Thank you for helping maintain VideoSift's reliability.

That's in the Amazon warehouse, it's how they power the conveyor belts. Turns out it's the collected works of Stephen King on a Kindle.

>> ^Mandtis:
I loved this book, and then later I also had to love this movie.
This is the best movie made from a Stephen King book

According to imdb, it's the best movie period. It's ranked number 1 at the moment.

I loved this book, and then later I also had to love this movie.

This is the best movie made from a Stephen King book, probably because it comes from a short story, and not from a full length book. So where they usually cut here and there to make it fit in 100-120 minutes, with this one they didn't leave out anything important. And not only that, they actually changed the end of the book into a different one, and I actually thought the end on the movie was even better (I will guess here that Stephen King was the one who did the script for the movie, and the one who changed the end).

Cornball nitwit drama queens. People love an epic Hollywood ending, whether they grew up on the Bible, TV or Stephen King novels. They need to believe the world will end in their lifetime with another Big Bang. Which leads to endless usage of corny terms like Armageddon, apocalypse, end of days, end of times, judgment day, the end of the world as we know it, yak yak yak. Spoiler Alert - it's not going to happen.

>> ^Imagoamin:
I would feel bad for the fan girls... If they weren't obsessed with a book that glorifies rape. The first time Edward and Bella have sex, she's unconscious. How could anyone find that romantic or magical?


Stephen King ripped into this author a while back. Seeing as I had a very extensive Stephen King phase growing up I did a smidgen of google research on twilight.

That part you're saying is a glorified rape bit is actually a reference to how the concept of the books evolved from a dream the author had. The book's story is actually based on the authors personal dream and fantasy (eew). That's why the main character's name somewhat resembles the author's.

But anyways, point being I could see the young fans of this series finding that whole thing about the books being based on a dream -very- romantic.

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Somewhere a child has seen Stephen King's IT and cries when he or she sees this.