Hi Everyone,

As a huge fan of Stephen King I decided to make a quiz book. It’s not just AI generated junk, I took months going through my pile of books to find questions. If you think you’d find it interesting it’s available as an ebook on Amazon for 99c. I didn’t do it for money but any sales will help to pay towards my time creating it.

look for: The Essential Stephen King Quiz Book by Dan Clarke, if you’re interested. 👍

PS, anyone finished Never Flinch yet? I’d love to hear what you think of it.

I own Rose Red and on the discs it shows the release in 2001 not 2002 but all of the internet says 2002. The special features shows them filming in 2000. I also remember being younger watching this than I would of been in 2002. The discs, Lionsgate, and ABC and the internet seems to all be totally conflicting.

There's no doubt that Stephen King is one of the most influential horror writers (even been affectionately named "The King of Horror"), and with that comes many movie and TV companies willing to rake in TV ratings or box office money by making adaptations of King's works.

Some of these adaptations (be it cinematic films or TV shows/TV movies) are rather highly regarded or at least seen as decent - even if Stephen King himself wasn't a fan - with examples including The Shining, Misery, The Dead Zone, The Green Mile, Doctor Sleep, the 1976 version of Carrie, etc.

Sadly, some of the TV shows/movies and cinematic movies based on his works (be it adaptations of his books or original continuations of some of his stories) haven't been so lucky - ranging from 'mediocre' to 'bad' to 'hilariously bad' to 'What is this?!"

Examples here include The Running Man, The Sleepwalkers, Trucks, The Langoliers, Dreamcatcher, The Rage: Carrie 2, etc.

Question is, if you fix a bad adaptation/continuation of one of Stephen King's works, which one would you pick and what would you change?

Feel free to be as brief or as detailed as you want; the only caveat been you can't just say "I wouldn't make it" as that's just a cheap cop-out and I'd like to see people brainstorming here.

Curious to see what you guys think.

(Bit of a hypothetical scenario for you guys to ponder over, since I've seen many people sympathize with Carrie and wish for her to get a happier ending. Question is, would she get one here?)

- In this scenario, Carrie and Tommy are still crowned Prom King and Queen - with Carrie getting the pig's blood dumped on her head and Tommy been hit by the falling bucket; knocking him unconscious and injuring him.

(In the novel he was simply knocked out by the bucket hitting him and later died from been trapped in the burning building, with it been the 1976 and 2013 movies where the bucket hitting him kills him, while in the 2002 film it severely injures him - with Tommy not breathing and it been difficult to feel his pulse).

- While the crowd laughs at Carrie and she hears her mother's warning about how they would all laugh at her - with her rage bubbling up inside from the humiliation - her attention this time returns to Tommy, since he was one of the few people who was genuinely nice to her and now his life is in danger.

The laughter stops as the crowd watches Carrie use her telekinesis to levitate Tommy's body into her arms; Carrie still been extremely furious at this moment but with her anger been more quiet and direct instead of the explosive outburst mixed with her telekinetic powers that we're more familiar with (like when someone who's extremely angry goes silent - which just makes everyone around them more tense).

- Moving off the stage, she uses her telekinesis to force the crowd to split apart and keep everyone away from her, as if trapped by an invisible wall.

Seeing Tina trying to escape and sensing she had something to do with the prank, however, she telekinetically slams the doors shut around the gym before telekinetically grabbing Tina - holding her in the air with no-one to help her and no way to escape.

Quiet but furious, Carrie demands to know who was responsible for the prank - pointing out that Tommy's life is at risk as a result and if he dies, then she'll find out who was responsible and bring her own "judgement" on everyone involved her humiliation.

- Tina initially refuses despite been afraid, to which Carrie telekinetically attacks her internal organs - causing Tina to scream in agony and tearfully admit that Chris Hargensen was responsible; revealing Chris wanting revenge for losing her prom tickets, the killing of the pig, putting its blood in the bucket and the swapping of the ballots with duplicates to make Tommy and Carrie win Prom King and Queen so the blood could be dumped on Carrie, with Chris and Billy been the ones to pull the rope after sneaking in - revealing in turn where the real ballots were hidden.

Having made Tina reveal the truth to everyone and with Miss Desjardin finding the real ballots, Carrie tossed Tina to the floor; telling her and everyone else involved in the prank to pray for Tommy's survival "or not even God will save you from me".

- With that, Carrie leaves the Gym and gets into Tommy's car using his keys; putting Tommy on the backseat while she sits in the front and uses her telekinesis to levitate the car; flying it over Chamberlain to the hospital.

(Considering she was able to toss Billy Nolan's car like a toy and devastate Chamberlain in the original story, I think her making the car fly isn't that unusual).

Upon reaching the hospital and carrying Tommy inside, he's immediately rushed off to the emergency unit to check his injuries, although Carrie has to leave due to the pig's blood on her and the fact she has no clean clothes with her - with her starting to walk home before been intercepted by Sue Snell, who was on her way to the hospital after learning what had happened at the Prom and offers Carrie a ride home.

During the drive, the two talk; Sue been understandably fearful of Carrie's powers despite Carrie's anger having mostly subsided (and with Carrie having telepathically learned that Sue was innocent and was pregnant with Tommy's child), with Carrie revealing more of the bullying she endured while younger from other kids as well as from her life at home - in particular regarding her mother's abusive nature and extreme religious beliefs where everything is "sinful".

- With Sue joining Carrie at her home (Carrie getting cleaned and putting on fresh clothes), Margaret's attempts at killing Carrie by stabbing her with a butcher's knife is prevented - with Carrie disarming and restraining her mother with her telekinesis when Margaret tries to stab Sue as well.

With Margaret restrained and screaming about Carrie having "the devil inside her", Sue - convincing Carrie that this is the best thing to do as Margaret is "not mentally well" - rings the Police to inform them of Margaret's attempts to kill her daughter.

With the Police arriving to take Margaret away and Tommy surviving this time thanks to Carrie's actions (along with everyone else at the Prom not been brutally killed), how do you think the story would change following this?

Curious to see what you guys think.

Just curious if anyone else thinks Ray Garrity is the Walking Dude (Randall Flagg, the Man in Black, Marten, et. al)? After he won the Long Walk, since he could have anything in the world...I wonder if he asked to end the universe considering what he went through and how bleak his dystopian lot in life was?

I got hp lovecraft complete fiction and sk the dark tower 7

It's more of a sad story than a scary one. Every time it even crosses my mind, I get emotional. My man didn't deserve any of that

Fav Character: Teddy Duchamp

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I liked it a lot, it was a fun watch.

Maybe I'll read the book (The Body) at some point, but not yet since I have so much else to read (not kidding when I say it's at least seven other books).

Anyone else here like that movie (or even the book)?

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Got these SK books for christmas:

• Pet Semetary

• Misery

• Cujo

• The Mist

I have been asking myself "Could Grampa Flick have been the leader of the True Knot at some point before Rose the Hat came to power?" The only piece of evidence I have is that Grampa Flick knows the creed.

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