Horror films... could you watch this? pet sematary

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Fancied going to the cinema tonight and as we’ve seen a lot already wondered what pet sematary was about.

Now I know and it sounds beyond grim.
You’d have to tie me to a chair and have the streets filled with zombies outside before I could do that.

Could you watch it?will you go to see it?
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I might have watched it before having DS

Now.. no way

The book is brilliant as are all of Stephen King’s early works. But I’d be too scared to watch the film I think. Seen the trailer that’s bad enough.

Me and my partner was hoping to go and see it but we both like horror movies and I’m not easily spooked.

Gosh the book is scarier than the film 😱😱😱

I’m very visual...I doubt I’d get the images out of my head...

So which is a nice almost gentle Stephen king... you know ... one where it’s a bit odd without being gruesome

I did read the stand once and I started the shining but I’m not sure if I finished it

Nah, life is too short to watch the horror and grimness of death.

Kings books are hit and miss at best.

I remember reading IT, the supposed "clown scary" one as a teen.

It was just an awful book, when the desperate vulnerable teen girl fucked all the boys and that made everything OK was more chilling than the whole premise of being afraid of "the clown"
Yes, I know the analogy and the clown being a predator to us all was meant to be a warning. It wasn't.

It was utter misguided dangerous nonsense then and now.

But I love a good thriller filled with intelligent suspension to the end.

A gentler book or movie adaptation?

The Shining is a modern classic. The way that he describes Jack’s decent into madness, chilling.
Misery, Carrie.

I've seen the new one and enjoyed it as a schlocky horror. Not the greatest horror film ever made but it was ok for what it is. I haven't read the book, although am tempted to now, and was not expecting 'that' to happen at the end! It is a bit grim in places and there's a decent dose of body horror. Probably best to skip it you're not sure OP

I read the book years ago & used to love horror films but like PP I've got wussier as I've got older so probably won't watch it.

This was one of the scariest books I've ever read. The part where he's exhuming his son left me cold and I dwelled on it for quite a while.

I'll probably watch the film, I'm a big fan of Stephen King, even if his work does leave me horrified.

Can’t remember being scared whilst reading it. Was a while ago. But I’d be scared watching the film. Can’t even watch ghost. With Patrick swayze and whoopi Goldberg. That’s how much of a wimp I am! But very rarely scared reading.

I read the book as a young teen and found it horrible, it really was scary.
So for me it's a no way!

It's quite 'jumpy' - I liked it!

We would go see it if we had someone to watch our children, massive horror fan,looks good.

The Dead Zone is a good film and book.

I used to love horror films but can't watch them now because DP works away a lot and I have to stay alone with the kids and when it comes to the paranormal I'm a massive shite bag. Plus I can't watch things like that with children in them, all adults no problem, children, no way!

I used to love horror too but I can’t watch anything like that since I had DS. I can only fill my head with happy stuff now, it’s like, there’s so much bad shit in the world that I seem to notice much more now that I’m a mum, that I can’t cope with it in fiction.

It's also the scariest book I've ever read. I had to stop reading it the first time and finished it only years later. I doubt the film can be any scarier.

I loved all King's books till I read this one. At the time I had a small son, and I found the story disturbing and sickening, so I stopped reading his novels after that.

So which is a nice almost gentle Stephen king... you know ... one where it’s a bit odd without being gruesome

Book or film? The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is an amazing book but there's no film or TV adaptation of it. Dolores Claiborne is also great and there's a decent film adaptation of it. The Green Mile and The Shawshank Redemption are also good books/stories with good adaptations (nobody does Stephen King adaptations like Frank Darabont!) which aren't really horror based though nice and gentle they are not...

I love horror films and will probably end up watching the new Pet Sematary but I've got a suspicion it's going to be like rather a lot of modern horror films and be mostly jump scare based which I'm not a fan of.

I read the book as a teen. I’m not touching this film with a barge pole.

The book has a twist in the middle that made my blood run cold when I first read it and still makes me so sad to think of it

So which is a nice almost gentle Stephen king... you know ... one where it’s a bit odd without being gruesome

11.22.63 is good, if long. It's about the JKF assassination but ironically not gruesome, that I remember There is a TV adaptation but I haven't seen it. There are also some familiar faces from his other works who pop up in it.

Doctor Sleep is a sequel to The Shining and is about Jack's son, Danny. It's not grim, although there is a fight at one point. It's not gentle, as such, but is not unrelenting gore and horror, either

Did someone uptrend really say Stephen King books make for shitty adaptations? Films like The Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption, Shining, stand By Me, Carrie etc are renowned as some of the best films around.

I like the way he doesn’t shy away from difficult subjects.

No way! I didn't sleep for weeks after I read the book in my teens.