Stephen King's "Rose Red" (Possible Spoilers)

[Evil Dr. Reef]

Anybody have any thoughts on this? I thought the ending was a little cheesy, but otherwise, a good miniseries. It was kind of like "The Shining".

[DR. BELCH]

--if the ground is poison, won't anything, including those condominiums, be evil?

My brother complained that too many horror movies use the haunted house formula. Barring that, the go with the fear-in-the-woods storyline. He doesn't like Stephen King becuase it "don't make sense". His wife, however, is as big a fan as me--she actually got sweaty palms and goosebumps during the picture.

The girl, Annie, was a constant enigma. How self-aware is she? She knows that knocking herself out was the only way to open up the house and release its prisoners, and is willing to make that sacrifice, but is unable to articulate it to the others--so it's sort of a Catch-22.

The real lifeblood of the house isn't Annie or the psychics, but the doctor's own obsession. That's really what brings it to life, what feeds it. Which makes one wonder just how far Rose Red's power extends beyond itself, and whether it's able to call to those it wants from long distances. Ultimately it costs her her life.

The whole rock thing at the end was oddly reminiscent of the opening of Carrie.

[Evil Dr. Reef]

if the ground is poison, won't anything, including those condominiums, be evil?
That's something else that bothered me. There wasn't enough backstory in the series. Half the stuff you learn about the house is just forced upon you, with no explanations about it. After I finished watching it last night, I found myself thinking:
What happened to Ellen Rimbauer? Why did she disappear?
What actually made the house evil to begin with?
What happened to Ellen's daughter when she disappeared?
Why did the college reporter hang himself?
Who or what lead the people out to the statue of Ellen?
What was chasing Nick & the old woman (name, anyone?) under the rug?

Y'know, stuff like that. I really hope King writes a book to go along with this, and includes some more backstory in it.

[Clayface]

Originally posted by Evil Dr. Reef

Y'know, stuff like that. I really hope King writes a book to go along with this, and includes some more backstory in it.

Its possible, but I doubt it - he's recently announced his retirement from writing.

[Evil Dr. Reef]

he's recently announced his retirement from writing.
Yeha, I read that too. ABC kept pushing that "Diary of Ellen Rimbauer" book at the end of each part of the series. Maybe it'll be worth reading now.

[Calico]

The first two nights didn't really do it for me, but the last one had be screeching every 10 seconds! I agree that the land was originally cursed (hmm...unearthed remains, ghosts haunt the building, sounds like....'Poltergiest'????). I knew Dr. Reardon had a few screws loose when she wiped her blood on Dr. Miller, but wow did she go over the bend or what? And Emery - I just couldn't dislike him; everything he said was true. Not nice, but true. Kind of gives new meaning to the saying 'truth hurts'. Annie talking in Ellen's voice gave me goosebumps and her final words ("Bad place. Bad house.") were just so eerie, because she doesn't have much dialog. All in all I really enjoyed it and I hope they put out a novelization.