The Reel Rejects - MISERY (1990) MOVIE REVIEW – THIS WOMAN IS TERRIFYING! - FIRST TIME WATCHING - STEPHEN KING

Episode Date: October 10, 2026

CARRIE HAS US REVISITING MORE STEPHEN KING HORROR! Jackie Bonsignore & Jon Maturan watch Misery (1990) for the first time as we revisit another iconic Stephen King adaptation in celebration of the new Carrie series! In this Misery full movie reaction and review, James Caan stars as novelist Paul Sheldon, whose rescue by obsessive “number one fan” Annie Wilkes becomes a terrifying fight for survival. Jackie & Jon react to Kathy Bates’ Academy Award-winning performance, the scrapbook discovery, Paul’s escape attempts, the infamous sledgehammer hobbling scene, the burned manuscript, and the brutal typewriter showdown! Misery (1990) Full Movie Reaction Watch Along:   / thereelrejects   Directed by Rob Reiner (The Princess Bride, Stand by Me) and adapted from Stephen King’s novel, Misery stars Kathy Bates as Annie Wilkes (Titanic, American Horror Story), James Caan as Paul Sheldon (The Godfather, Elf), Richard Farnsworth as Sheriff Buster (The Straight Story, The Grey Fox), Frances Sternhagen as Virginia (Cheers, Sex and the City), and Lauren Bacall as Marcia Sindell (The Big Sleep, To Have and Have Not). Jackie & Jon discuss Kathy Bates’ Academy Award-winning performance, Annie Wilkes’ terrifying unpredictability, the movie’s claustrophobic tension, Rob Reiner’s direction, and the biggest differences between Stephen King’s book and the film. Follow Jackie Bonsignore: https://www.instagram.com/jackiebonsignore/ Follow Jon Maturan: https://www.instagram.com/jonmaturan/?hl=en Intense Suspense by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Follow Us On Socials:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/  Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/reelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ Music Used In Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Happy Alley by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello, Reject Nation. I am here with John in our first video together. Finally. I know, literally. They've been keeping the young people apart. Oh, Beth. You're so sweet. You're so you think I'm young. Oh, my gosh. But we are here today to watch Stephen King's misery, and I am so excited. But yeah, I'm super excited to dive right into this. You ready? Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it. Are you sure? I'm okay, yeah. Okay. That was just such, that was also such a sudden end. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was like, there we go, we're done.

Yep, no, definitely. Okay. Wow, okay, okay, okay. I want to hear, how did you feel about it? Woo! Still sweating. Yeah, we just finished misery. So, and Jackie's like hyperventilating it.

I, uh, ooh, good question. How did I feel? I'm sweating. I it was really anxiety inducing kind of a roller coaster for sure um fun because it was it was uh it was like a mystery of how we're gonna how we're gonna kind of wrap this all up but otherwise it's like great directing by rob reiner for sure oh yeah amazing um a lot of the tight shots that we were we were talking about that the whole movie is there is just it makes it more intimate and more extreme and you felt every kind of emotion and every kind of sneaking around, so on and so forth. But otherwise, yeah, I enjoyed the hell out of the movie. I didn't like a lot of the gruesome stuff, for sure, just mainly because I don't like watching that stuff.

Like, otherwise, a great movie, like I said, James Kahn, great directing, sarcastic, surprisingly really funny, but, you know, not. He's hilarious, yeah. Yeah, Stephen King, like Jackie said, like she's, or he's, he's very much sarcastic and funny in his writing. I didn't know that. I'm not the biggest Stephen King fan, not, no disrespect to his work. I just, I never grab. It's not that.

I just never gravitated towards like anything horror or like thriller or anything. So, but otherwise, yeah, one hell of a time. And Kathy Bates knocks out of the freaking park. Oh, yeah. Let's see if she won. She, yeah, nominated in one or something. I'm not sure. Yeah.

Is there a film awards. Uh, there you go. Yep, she did win. That makes sense. She did win. Yeah. Definitely. She won the Golden Globe and the Academy Award.

It's the only Stephen King adaptation to win an Oscar, which if you are familiar with Stephen King's work, he's actually not a fan of most adaptations of his work. Oh, fair, fair, fair. That's cool. Otherwise, yeah, a ton of fun. And like, I enjoyed myself, just the crazy kind of practical effects, which is pretty nuts. I feel bad for Buster. He was kind of my favorite character.

He and his wife. It's sad, too, like, no, she's a widow. But, like, otherwise, yeah, how'd you feel? I... Oh, God. It was really, really... It's very haunting. I mean, I'm very familiar with a lot of, like...

As someone that is very into the horror and the true crime genre, I'm familiar with, like, a lot of different... kidnapping horror films, but I guess. But I think misery is the only one that really comes to my immediate mind right now that is like it's a woman. It's a female protagonist. I think that something that I was thinking a lot about throughout the story is that when I think about kidnapping, I am a woman.

So usually I'm really terrified of something of like a more sexual nature. And it was so fascinating to me that something that was just completely, non-sexual like you know completely non-sexual like obviously she's very religious but it was so horrifying and chilling and I guess I didn't I didn't know that um that you know Paul the writer was going to be so held back and cunning and right manipulative I guess like in my mind when I thought about misery I just assumed that the character would be more like freaking out let me You know, let me the heck out. But no, I, God.

And also just Rob Reiner's direction. Yeah. I, yeah. I'm not familiar with a lot of his more, like, serious dramas. I obviously, like, know when Harry met Sally. Amazing film. Love it. But I also haven't seen Stand By Me yet.

Oh, yeah. I don't think I have either. So, no. So maybe that could be our next one. But it was just, it was crazy. All the tight shots that you were calling out the whole time. It was nuts. The score was nuts.

It was, I mean, it. The score, yeah. Yeah. I think sometimes with psychological thrillers, they can seem a little less fast-paced. But I kind of like, I feel like the movie that we just watched zoomed by, it felt like 10 or 15 minutes, you know? Definitely. Great pacing. Yeah.

For sure. It was amazing pacing. It was so scary. And that ending, that little note ending of just like it's always going to haunt him was so. And then also that. hint of like maybe Kathy Bates is gone but right someone else could be the number one fan yeah exactly it's scary it's scary it's really interesting it's funny I feel like as a Stephen King fan and knowing that he wrote this I've always been like what do you think someone's gonna kidnap

you see you actually I don't know you can't tell definitely I'm curious I do want to look up does Stephen King like the misery adaptation because he really doesn't like A lot of his movie. It's The Shining. Oh, he loved it. Cool. He said, he named it as one of his top 10 favorite film adaptations in his book collection. Right, right.

Yeah, he famously doesn't like The Shining, right? No, he hates The Shining, yeah. Because they made it. It's a completely different character than the book. Right, right, right. Obviously, classic film. We're not going to get into that. And then he also hates the first Pet Cemetery.

The remake, he likes a little bit better, which is interesting because it does go very, it's not truly. And that's like the recent years. right in the past like 10 years yeah that was like in the last 10 years like I meant in like the 20 teens or something gotcha gotcha but yeah no I love it that was crazy I actually don't know if I will read the book I just like I don't know I like I like more of his horror that's a little much for me it's a little stressful because it's so grounded in reality when I think of it or like the shining it's like supernatural and kind of alienish or whatever

but like yeah something like this and I also just he's such an incredibly vivid visceral writer that that foot thing that was painful enough to watch once and I just know that I just knowing his writing I'm like it's gonna be it's gonna be worse yeah yeah right right right yeah oh my gosh do you want to get to some questions yeah let's get to some questions okay okay Nikki Sunrisa asks hi Nikki she says hey John and Jackie I hope you enjoyed the movie though I think enjoyed may not be the right word great point out misery is a chilling film and one I don't rewatch often because it's so disturbing. Sure.

Question. If you had to choose a particular climate for a writer's retreat, would you choose a wintry cabin, a mountainside lake house, or a sunny beach bungalow? Nikki, thank you for this lovely question. Thank you. Like, genuinely, this is beautiful. Yeah. Would you like to pick?

This is going to be an easy answer for me. Sunny Beach bungalow. Oh, really? I'm Filipino. So, like, I'm tropical. Like, I kind of like, the beach. calls me so I do that but yeah how about you um I think that neither of us right now would ever choose wintery cabin yeah right now no absolutely not never again uh I I love the mountains I love hiking

and I um I think I would go for a mountainside lakehouse I do think that there you go if especially when I am going to want to create something artistic I'd want a little more solitude insane to say after just watching that insane thing to say but maybe I'd pick like a Tahoe but I'd pick like a Tahoe but I think the beach would be a bit too crowded for me. That's fair. No, definitely. I mean, even like with a private beach, like, really secluded on an island. If I had a private beach, that'd be nice.

But I love, but I just, I love the mountains because something about going up to a beautiful vista point and just feeling very small. That's smart. Yeah. I think it just makes me feel a little more connected to, like, the creative space. Good to know. Sweet. All right. Captain Fernandez, while I'm sure neither of you would ever go to the lengths.

any did in defense of her beloved misery chastain. Are there any fictional characters you love intensely? Ooh, I got to think about that one. I know. That's really interesting. Jackie, you got to... I know, and now I have to go first because it's my turn. That I love intensely. That I would defend. No, because I know that there definitely is an answer for this because I love having opinions.

Okay. And I love dying on hills. Please. I'm trying to think of some of my favorite. I'm like, what are my favorite movies? Hey, that's where I'm going. Do you remember my favorite movies? Does anyone know what they are?

Defend. Defend. Editors cut out us going, uh. I know, for real. I mean, I have a pretentious answer. Oh, yeah, say it. No one's say it. What's the book called?

Famous Book. Moby Dick. No, no. To kill a mockingbird. To kill a mockingbird. Atticus Finch is the main character's name. He's the lawyer. He's the very ethical, very just Boy Scout kind of good moral type of character.

I defend him. I don't know if I love him. But he's just well written. I don't know if I def, yeah, that's not answering the question. I would actually. I thought of a really. good answer. I'm sure that there are bigger answers, but I just can't think of them right now.

Sure. I'm an actor. I've acted a lot. I would say that I've played the character Rizzo in Greece. Oh, cool. And the movie, again, movie and the stage version, very, very different. But I will go to the ends of the earth defending Rizzo and going like, Sandy was a fucking bitch. Like, Sandy was a pretentious ass bitch in the play.

Like, called her a slut, thought she was better than her. And she learned the biggest lesson from Rizzo at the end. and that's why Sandy changes at the end. And you know what? Okay. This is a... I will die on this. Fair.

Comment. I'm ready to fight in the comments. Awesome. You have it right there. There you go. There we go. Want to go next? Yes.

Stephanie Bree says, John and Jackie, how are you feeling about this movie compared to the typical Stephen King? It's a rare story where there's no supernatural or Eldridge horror elements. Do you think the film captures

the essence of a Stephen King story or does this stand-alone is something entirely you unique in his catalog. Good question. Hot take, or not hot take. Just not controversial either. I haven't seen a lot of Stephen King movies, to be honest.

Mainly because I can get you up to speed. No, yeah, definitely for the channel. Absolutely. Just mainly because a lot of people don't know this about me, but like I steer away. Are you? Yeah, yeah. You're good. You're good.

As long as you're okay. I'm okay. Okay. Yeah, I'm not the biggest horror thriller fan. I mean, yeah, I don't avoid them. I just, I lean towards other genres. Otherwise, the ones I have seen like The Shining and like I haven't seen the recent it, um, uh, adaptations.

I've seen the, the, what's it called the, the mini series. In the 90s mini series. Yes, yes. Yeah, exactly. I've seen that one. Um, but I guess what the, do you think it captured the essence of Stephen King. I guess so.

It's a better question for Jackie, to be quite honest. I get, like we said, it's not supernatural. It's not like this crazy intense thing.

It's a very grounded story which is like this very unhinged character kind of. There's no, yeah, there's not a single supernatural. Exactly.

So, just mental illness. No, exactly. And so it's enjoyable in that sense, but in terms of essence of Stephen King,

I got to, I'll let Jackie kind of answer this one. I would, uh, Yeah, because I think, like, a lot of people, there, I wonder if, like, to the person that's not, like, a weird Stephen King Superman, like, or Superman? Superfan. Whoa.

Okay. I think a lot of people would immediately think of, hmm, like, what's another story similar in his catalog? Oh, the Shining. Mm-hmm. There's actually a lot of supernatural elements in the Shining, like, so many, so many. Even beyond, like, just the hotel, I mean, like, the, yeah, right. but I would think that I don't think it stands alone because I think that suspense is a huge element of his horror as well.

You know? That's fair. Yeah, I've never thought of it as something that is like so uniquely outside of his body of work or his catalog of work. Because it is just because the villain in this isn't supernatural doesn't mean that it doesn't have all the other, like, touchstones of what makes a Stephen King story, like, so fantastic. I would be curious to read the book, but I don't, I don't want it. That's fair. I'm scared.

No words. I'll take your word for it, though, in terms of, yeah, being a Stephen King, very, very, I guess, loyal. So, uh, Jen L, I'm the rejects biggest cockat duty fan. Okay, cool. You are the, Jen, should we be scared? I don't want to get kidnapped. You are the only patron I support.

So at least there's that. Okay. Now, on to my question, Stephen King had a deal with a lot of toxic fandom to dream up any Wilkes' character, seeing as though you're part of the public channel with a large reach, has toxic fandom affected you, and how would you deal with it? Please. Go ahead. I don't know if I should answer this. Okay. I'll answer it.

I'll answer it. Okay. Yeah. There's been like some, I think it's been, I'm still very new to the channel. I think that it's been like moving pretty fast. And I will say like I did recently receive some AI images that I think we can all use our imagination here as to what sort of AI images were generated. Okay, now I'm getting mad. All right.

I'm sorry, dude. No, it's okay. Yeah. So, yeah, I would argue that, yeah, that's been, like, interesting. How do I deal with it? You know, filing a police report. Fair. How do you deal with it?

I don't know, just trying to stay, like, unplugged and, you know, like. Yeah. And I think, yeah. I mean, as a woman, genuinely, I really do believe that as a woman in society, especially in a big city like Los Angeles, growing up as a young woman, in a big city as well, we deal with this on a regular day-to-day basis. Like, we do deal with men being creepy and inappropriate all the time. I think that my experience is just like a little more magnified, obviously, because we do have this platform.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I would say that it was something that I was already used to. And now at least I'm able to, like, I don't know, I'm finding success in the field that I want to. And this is just kind of a part of it, you know? Right, right, right. It comes with the territory. It comes with the territory. Yeah.

I guess I'm not as, you know, obviously I can't compare myself to anyone else's experience. All I can say is in regards to this question, Greg told me not to read the comments. So I didn't. And I haven't. You're better than me. I read it. No, sure. And again, to each their own.

By all means, I just, I. The comments are less bad than what I'm getting DMed. So. Oh, that's, yeah. So in regards. And even the DMs, do I get like crazy? I don't even check. I don't know.

Like maybe it goes to that spam folder, you know, but otherwise. Otherwise, Greg kind of advised me just to stay in a very emotionally healthy space to avoid that nonetheless because I know it naturally happens. Yeah. And so I know that there are a lot of people out there, whether they're hurt, whether they're just finding trying to find some attention. Whatever the case may be, I don't want to, I know this sounds really like holier than now. But like everyone's going through something. So I don't like. Take it personally.

Yeah, I can't. when someone is trying to be nasty or weird or strange. Yeah, nasty or weird, yeah. Or even like even when it gets to a threatening level, that's when it kind of gets scary, right? But otherwise everyone else kind of just talking,

it's just noise and you can kind of like brush it off. But that's so easy for me to say and compare to someone like Jackie. Like I can't, I don't want to like mansplain. Oh, it's you know like yeah, it's not as bad. I know it's bad. I know. I know. It's interesting because like the

like the the mean comments that we will get on videos that are like she's stupid or like you know like those don't really bother me it's mainly just like the really like creepy stuff or like the crime that was committed against me like that sure yeah that is illegal guys like yes let's remember yeah um but yeah i don't know but the hate comments no i'm like you whatever okay yeah like it's just gonna happen i don't know fair thank you for the engagement guys thank you yeah Absolutely for sure. Yeah, but I think that's a little... Yeah, that was a...

Jen, that's a really good question. Yeah. Thank you for asking. For sure. All right. Alan Smithy says, Hey, John and Jackie. Hey, Alan.

I hope you liked misery. Loved. So, oh, okay. Oh, okay. So in the book, there is no hobbling. Wow. Hoping was added to the story by the screenwriter, William Goldman, as a way of toning down what happens in the book.

Toning down? Oh, here. I'm about to... tell you what happens. In the book, she straight up cuts his feet off with an axe and cornerizes the wounds with a blow torch. Do you think it was a good idea to make that change for the movie version? Thanks, Rejects. Well, um, okay. Well, here's my here's my question. Break it down. What is the rating? Oh, of misery? Yeah. I think it's rated her. I don't know. I would it seems though. No, I'm okay. Not sports.

film, Misery, film, rating. R, but that's got, you guys are going to R. I don't know. Call me a purist, but I'm like, cut his feet off with an accent, cauterize the wound. Sure, sure.

Like, let's do it. Like, if we're going to do it, let's do it. You can show it tastefully. I'd like to see it. Right. I just say after I, like, almost threw up for me. Yeah, exactly, exactly. What do you think?

Good, good point. If you like, if you like staying pure the source material, cool. yes I guess the argument though is it's such it's much more visually because okay you could cut it off and make it really like practical makeup and stuff but because there's no blood it makes it more intense of a scene like it's we feel the breaking of the bone no you're right yeah you're right I mean again you have your opinion I this is just mine you know that it's it's just Jackie's reaction was like be perfect example of why it worked for me. Right? It's, I knew it was coming. I didn't, I haven't seen, I, again, I've seen it clipped out, but like, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, um, intensity of it all. Like, like, cutting it off almost makes it like, it's a slasher movie at this.

I actually, I actually, I, I take back my answer and I genuinely do agree with you because it's something like, in a, reading the book, you're able to imagine that. You're able to, like, your feet, your ankles go numb. but it's something about in the visual medium Yeah That giant You see it goes You see and she put And then she goes

Wow And it's like so disgusting Because also the fact that they only show The foot going once And then they don't even show You just hear it Like I had to turn around I almost peaked

I was like oh Wow Yeah no worries Wow Yeah I changed my mind I agree with John There you go Okay

all right let's go on to fun service ones allegedly uh jaden Rhodes this movie is directed by the late Rob Reiner rest in peace uh he does such an amazing job with this movie and it's my personal favorite favorite from him

I'm curious what is y'all's favorite from him close second is stand by me which we mentioned I highly recommend it all if you haven't seen it um go ahead I have my favorite because it has a very special place in my heart. No one cares for this movie.

What are you going to say? It like came out in 2010 and no one even knew about this movie. And I can guarantee you like, I don't know if anyone on, maybe someone in the comments are going to notice this movie. It wasn't really, it wasn't critically received well. I think it was an okay movie. It's a coming of age movie called Flipped. It's based on a book.

It's a romantic. movie about two middle schoolers. It's really, it's just really like, heartwarming. It's not even, there it is, there is, there is. That's my, I love that. Like, when I say I love that movie,

I legitimately, because it's, it's a romance movie between these two innocent kids, right? And like, um, which I feel like most of the middle school movies that I've watched are traumatic. Like, uh, uh, third, what was the, oh my God,

who's the comedian? That sings. The comedian. that sings. Bo Burnham. Oh, Bo Burnham. Oh, Bo Burnham's like 13. It was traumatic.

Yeah, yeah, eighth grade is a freaking dope-ass. Oh, eighth grade. Sorry, I love that movie. I love that movie. Yeah, flipped is one of my favorite movies that is like, I'm... It looks really sweet. Unapologetically in love with.

It's kind of not the greatest movie. But like, again, I have my own personal. But you're like, I just like it. Exactly, exactly. Oh, yeah. Based off of a book, maybe. It is, it is. Yeah, it is.

Yeah, yeah. I am... Go for it. I'm admittedly a little bit behind on my Rob Reiner films. Sure. I've seen when Harry met Sally. And I've seen the Princess Pride. Really?

I haven't seen that one either. I haven't seen Princess Bride. Roxy don't kill me. I haven't seen the Princess Bride in like 10 years. Okay. But I would say of the ones that I've seen the Princess Bride. But so stand by me immediately became like I was like, I need to watch this movie as soon as possible. And then I got hired at this job.

I'm like, well, guys, I don't get to pick when I watch movies now. Yeah, that's a good point. So I would love to watch Stand By Me, like dying to watch Stand By Me. Yeah, I want to watch it. Yeah. I think I have seen it, but like when I was a child and I don't even remember it at all. Another Stephen King, by the way. Oh, yeah.

That's right. That's right. So cool. I want to watch it. Everyone bullied Greg into letting us watch it. Leaving the comments, all that stuff. But yeah, if anyone else has, and I've heard Spinal Tap is great too. If anyone else has any other.

Rob Brander favorites, please comment and let us know. Sweet. Okay. And then, ooh, we have a... Do you want to do these two? Do you want to do... Okay, cool. Let's do it.

This one? Yeah. Jaden. Jaden Rhodes asks, what is y'all's favorite... The ankle, dude. What is y'all's favorite Stephen King adaptation? Mine is carried by a mile. I'm assuming...

I'm going to go ahead and assume... you mean the original, Kerry. Yeah, I could, I, Jaden didn't specify, but sure.

Go ahead and assume that you mean that, you mean that, you know. You probably have more answers than I do. Da. I mean,

I'm gonna go, this is, this is a controversial opinion. I loved the new it films. Okay. I think that's like

kind of relatively controversial. I even really do love the second one. Sorry. Why is it controversial? not like well received um because a lot of people are just saying that you know that's tim

currie miniseries is so much better i think that the i actually think that the tim curry miniseries is really funny and kooky and insane but i think that as an i prefer the new ones as an adaptation that's fair hey i think that they're great i think that those i mean that's some of the best child acting that i've ever seen it chapter one um yeah there was a period of time uh it chapter one came out when i was in college there was a very large period of time where me and my friends would be ready getting well me and my best friend katelyn we would be like we're going to go to the club tonight and then we were like what if we stayed inside and we ordered food and we watched it again wow and we would watch it like over and over whoa cool

we loved yeah that's what jump started me into getting into my stephen king um uh addiction really sure because it was the first book of his that i ever bought and i loved it i famously have like 30 pages of it left and I don't want to finish it. Oh, wow. Oh, interesting. I've had 30 pages of it left for like five years. I don't want to finish it. I've restarted it a couple times, but I've never finished like the last.

What's the reason why I've not finished it? Because then it's over. Oh, fair. Okay. That's right. Okay. She likes control. Then it's always.

You and my therapist keep saying that. That's fair. No worries. What about you, Joe? I mean, this is snobby of me because he doesn't like it, but like the shining is brilliant filmmaking. Get out. No, I'm sorry.

Like, again, Jack Nicholson, right? Like, Shelley Duvall. Like, it's classic for a reason. But otherwise, I don't have... What other movies are Stephen King adaptations? Here. Because, like, even...

There are certain things like, oh, I didn't even know that Stephen King like wrote it or whatever. You know, or, you know. Meow. Let's see. Well, there's, like, famous ones One's Carrie, Salem's Lot, obviously the Shining.

Coojo, if you've seen Coojo? I haven't seen that one. I don't remember it well. Maybe I have. Coojo's a dog. Christine is a car. Children of the corn, fire starter. Okay.

Stand by me. The Rudding Man is Stephen King? I didn't know that. I haven't seen that. Oh, cool. Oh, there's other, there's the long walk. Oh, I like that movie a lot. I could say that.

There's like so many. Oh, yeah. Needful things. Tommy knockers Oh Yeah weird take I haven't seen the Shawshank Resemption I know that's like a modern classic

I want to watch it really badly Yeah Well Shawshank Redemption is another story But it's not really horror Yeah that's not horny at all right Yeah yeah yeah yeah I mean like it just keeps going on

There's so many That's fair He's so good He's so awesome I really want to meet him before he dies And also I really want a first edition copy of it Cool I would lose like I don't even

I think that like fame. I think that buying first editions are like kind of like silly, but I really want one so bad. Yeah, go for it. Hell yeah. Yeah, I mean, those are those movies for sure. I want to. 1408, the mist, the mist.

The mist, I remember it, kind of. But otherwise, obviously the twist ending, if you guys know. Oh, Dark Tower series. I mean. Oh, sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Gerald's game, Gerald's game. Mike Flanagan?

I don't remember. I know of that. I don't think I've seen it. Castle Rockville, that's like... Pet Cemetery. Rooms 237. Pet Cemetery, amazing, very underrated. You said you like the more recent?

Yes, the original Pet Cemetery pissed me the fuck off. Oh, okay. We'll take your word for it. And it pissed off Stephen King, too, so no one can come from me. But Pet Cemetery Blood Lines was fine. It was like a recent... Oh, interesting. sequel

A little series Oh oh okay It was on like AMC or something I like bought AMC for a few months Just to watch it Yeah yeah What was I going to say I had one other thing to say

Oh life of Chuck You mentioned that earlier yeah A lot of people Didn't love it but I saw it alone At like the vista Oh nice hell yeah Like there was like two other people in that In the audience when I went to see it

Cool Mike Flanagan is one of my favorite directors ever. Have you watched a hello to Mike Flanagan? No, I haven't. We need to put him on Hillhouse. Okay. Put him on Hillhouse. I'll take your word for it.

But I really, really enjoyed it. I've heard good things about Live and Chuck. Yeah, Mike Flanagan and Stephen King have been working, you know, they did Gerald's game together. And it's my dream team. But anyway. Good to know. Okay. Sounds good.

And then we have one more question, but I'm going to be honest. I have to look up that word. Eldridge? Eldrick. Eldrick. Oh. How do you pronounce it? Eldridge?

Eldrick. Eldrick. Gotcha. Here, do you want to ask the question? I can ask it, yeah. Yes. Stephanie Brie, what's your favorite non-king Eldritch war story? I've never heard of that term before, Stephanie.

Yeah, neither have I. I'm assuming is that, like... Well, it's saying that it means, also known as Cosmic War is a genre of a genre of speculative fiction focusing on the unknowable cosmic dread and human insignificance. So key elements defining the genre

include incomprehensible entities that sounds like it. Forbidden knowledge, inevitable madness. Yeah, it does sound like it. So it's so the question can you go, oh my man. Oh yeah, what were you going to ask? The what what is Stephanie asking again? Non non. She was asking if we

have any famous like our favorite Eldritch Horror stories. From King. No, no, other than Stephen King. Oh, oh, oh, oh. And I'm like, I'm trying to figure out who even, because it's very like Lovecraftian apparently. But I'm actually, I'm not very familiar with HP Lovecraft's work.

Same. So I, oh, yeah, Lovecraftian horror. Right. Okay, that's really interesting. Yeah, good question. I don't have an answer to that, actually, Stephanie. Do you have any recommendations? Please.

We would love to know. I'm like, Cosmic horror. I'm like, my life. I don't know. Oh my God. When I opened my DM.

Call back. Unfortunately true. Yeah, definitely. But yeah, I don't know. Do you have any final thoughts on misery?

I do want to watch that scene again for some reason. Really? I know that sounds weird. Why do you want to watch it again? I want to see how they practically did it. Like, you know,

it's just how cool. I mean, movie magic now. Yeah, yeah. But like the makeup effect. Yes, yes. The makeup in this film was insane.

Even that one scene where she talks about, oh, I have the gun, and she was really depressed. And she just had that very simple, but she just had like this line of just like red. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right there. Definitely. And also what, like, only a few locations at this film.

It must have been like, I think. Small production. Yeah, part of me almost wonders if they were able to get such amazing Academy and Golden Globe winning performances. Yeah, James Kahn. Because, yeah, really like small, yeah, nothing too. Yeah, nothing too stressful, not that many locations, like one place. Like, yeah, really interesting.

But yeah, I don't know if I'll be watching it again. I'm going to leave you. He's going to stay in here and rewatch it a couple times. The scenes over and over again. I'm not sadistic. No, go ahead. But anyways, yes, thank you guys for joining us on this video. Yeah.

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