I can say that this is pretty creepy and suspenseful. I personally loved it. I also think that John Cusack did a really good job with this part. Not every actor can act like their losing their mind. I would highly recommend this film to anyone, but if you are looking for "mass murder" type stuff then this is not right for you.
Kid, 11 years old July 23, Dolphin Hotel It's a pretty scary movie. But very confusing. Teen, 17 years old Written by TheTrillonaire July 6, This title contains: Positive Messages. Positive role models. Kid, 11 years old March 6, Awesome Not gory at all but scary and it's really good Samuel l Jackson plays really well. Teen, 16 years old Written by yundun63 February 16, While more of a psychological thriller than a horror, parents should still pause.
Focusing more on psychological horror rather than a gore fest, it is a movie parents should assuredly watch before showing any younger teens. Great script and fabulous acting with nothing TOO intense, it makes a great alternative to a regular 'slasher' flick.
Teen, 15 years old Written by rallos April 14, I have seen R movies that are not as scary as this. It is very good and very scary. The main character seems like a positive rol model who loved and misses his daughter.
Thereis some blood coming from the walls and ceiling of the hotel and on mike, especially when a window slams on his hand and he leaves bloody handprints on the walls. There is one scary scene where Mike is chased through the air ducts by a disturbing corpse. The movie all has a creepy and tense overtone to it as well.
There is one naked breat breifly visible in a painting. Mike is also drinking throughout the movie. This title contains: Positive role models. Katie : Are there people where I'm going? Mike Enslin : Hey You're going to stay right here with us. Katie : Daddy Lily Enslin : When they're old.
Mike Enslin : When they're much older. Lily Enslin : Okay? And then they go to a better place. It's beautiful there, all your friends will be there. Katie : Is God there? Katie : Do you really believe that Daddy? Mike Enslin : [yelling] I want Mike Enslin : Eight dollars for Beer Nuts? Mike Enslin : Is a smoking room? Gerald Olin : As a matter of fact, it is. Mike Enslin : Good, one less worry in the watches of the night. Gerald Olin : Care for a cigar? Mike Enslin : No thank you, I don't smoke.
Mike Enslin : [sobbing] No Book Store Cashier : Where is the best place where I can see ghosts? Mike Enslin : Guaranteed? Haunted Mansion, Orlando. Mike Enslin : If something should happen, if I should slip and fall, I want it known that it was an accident. The room did not win. Mike Enslin : [on tape recorder] I've got you now, Katie. Oh my God. I'm not gonna let you go. Mike Enslin : It's good to be back. That's enough of that.
Gerald Olin : I was just checking to see if the accommodations are exceeding your expectations. What do you want from me? Gerald Olin : No, no, no. What do you want? What do you want, Mr. You sought this room. Mike Enslin : It was a job, I was just doing the job. Gerald Olin : I beg your pardon? Mike Enslin : My job, I'm a writer. Gerald Olin : Oh, that's right, you don't believe in anything. You like shattering people's hopes.
Mike Enslin : Oh, that's bullshit! Gerald Olin : Why do you think people believe in ghosts? For fun? No, it's the prospect of something after death. How many spirits have you broken?
Mike Enslin : What do you want from me? Mike Enslin : You little Mike Enslin : I want The first half which describes the horrors he will face were much scarier than the actual horrors taking place , which seemed rushed and misplaced. The movie had an intensity that the second half of the story lacked and for this reason the energy just kind of puttered out.
To show that describing a horror with words is sometimes scarier than the horror itself? In fact, Uncle Stevie even writes that this story was never supposed to get finished.
It was a mock up story he created for his memoir On Writing in order to show the progression of a story and its subsequent drafts. I thought that this book was good. Sometimes I forgo a book when a movie has been made, I am glad I don't do this with Stephen King, I have found the adaptations are never true to the story. This is the story of Mike Insley a horror writer who tells about haunted places.
He want to spend the night in room which hasn't been used for 20 years due to all the death happening in the room, suicides, murders, and natural causes have claimed many lives.
I enjoyed this very much especially since it was read by Stephen King himself. So Sometimes I forgo a book when a movie has been made, I am glad I don't do this with Stephen King, I have found the adaptations are never true to the story.
So even if you have seen the book you won't be sorry reading the book because it is totally different once Mike enters the room, the beginning is pretty much the same as the movie tho. Scary stuff, I tell ya. Scary, scary stuff! Jan 08, Kyle.
Being a suspense and thriller it is a great choice for adults and mature audiences. A novel writer named Mike Enslin visits the Dolphin hotel in search of the cursed room , where over 50 people have already died. As this is a Stephen King novel; it is a well written piece of horror and delight. Stephen King brought the character of Mike Enslin into the book and made him feel and act as , A book written by renowned horror author Stephen King, is a well written and very mysterious book.
Stephen King brought the character of Mike Enslin into the book and made him feel and act as if he were realistic and very daring, as he explores haunted places with no fear. Throughout the book the dialogue between Mike and the hotel manager is very realistic and believable. In addition, Stephen King keeps the storyline concise and keeps his readers on the edge of their seats, wanting so much more. My rating for would be a 4. Another fine specimen of Stephen King's horror magic!
I always wondered why SK held short stories in such high regard. For me, it's the form that ends up just in the moment I kind of start to get into it, if it even happens at all. But now I get it. He's enamored not with every short story out there, but with the idea of what's possible in the top echelons of the craft, the kind of stuff nobody actually writes. Except he does. This is The Master at his best. Every word has its place and sounds like a top choice for its purpose.
It's just incredible h I always wondered why SK held short stories in such high regard. It's just incredible how much is said in such a story. And it's even more incredible considering how capable he is at producing long winded novels that drag and drag How does he do the switching and manages both? I have no idea. Who else can do that? Maybe Chuck Palahniuk? Maybe because I was already suffering from a spell of anxiety, this short horror story really nauseated me.
Mike wasn't the only one with troubles breathing or seeing straight, I was right there with him, forcing myself to stop jumping down lines in a dazed rush to the end, to see if he would make it or not. I really like these kinds of short horror stories, about what could only be described as SCP entities, and the unfortunate ends of those who dare affront such entities. The constant jabs at ho Maybe because I was already suffering from a spell of anxiety, this short horror story really nauseated me.
The constant jabs at how everything is the number 13 are incredibly childish and almost ruined the mood. I can't believe a guy who doesn't believe at all in ghosts would obsess so much about a stupid number. View 2 comments. Jul 16, Christine Kayser rated it really liked it. I've read before, but I just listened to the audiobook of it for the first time. Stephen King himself reads it. It's a quick hour and a half audiobook.
It's the first fiction audiobook I've listened to, and it was surprisingly good. I think I had a bit more terror the first time I read through, without knowing the outcome. King's reading of it is really well done, and keeps the pace up and the adrenaline pumping.
My only complaint is that the music during the outro comes in really loud and I've read before, but I just listened to the audiobook of it for the first time. My only complaint is that the music during the outro comes in really loud and really abruptly, scaring me and the dog while on a road trip.
The movie was definitely better. This story was done very well for being so short. I loved how the tension builds first when Mike is talking to Mr. Olin and then when Mike is in the room. I remember enjoying the movie when it came out and I am glad that I finally took the time to read the story that it is based on.
I would recommend it to anyone that enjoys horror stories, especially short stories that involve a haunting. The story sent a chill to my back. John Cusack: In New Orleans people do voodoo and rituals. They said it was for good, but they weren't dark. John Cusack: I haven't seen that but they pulled out all sorts of things and Sam Jackson: Some bones and John Cusack: They had a lot of elixirs and potions. I've been researching a movie about Edgar Cayce so I'm interested in all types of, I'm interested in the hustlers, the real deals, the conmen.
I'm just interested in all of it. So I have seen people like that. The real horror of this film for me was the loss of your daughter. I think you also have a film coming out where you lose your wife. Is that just not an awful lot of darkness over a short period of time? It's something you do. John Cusack: Well, one of them is about the Iraq War so I think that's a perfectly reasonable response to the war we're in here.
And then there were people like Lorenzo and Mikael around here who said, oh yeah, we're going to do this and you're going to do this and then we're going to get Sam Jackson and Mary and then all of sudden it's there for you.
So this was just kind of blind luck to be able to get invited into this crew. To do this film. But the one about Iraq is about this country and people going through shattering grief so it seemed appropriate to make a movie about the times you live in once and a while.
That was your gross point blank screenwriter? John Cusack: No, that's another one I did, which is also about Iraq. So there's actually more grief. But that was funny. That one's actually funny. We're trying to live up to the Paddy Chayefsky, 'Strange Love' of it all. Is it true that you put Hilary Duff in one? John Cusack: Well, because there's a role with a very slutty pop, Eurasian pop star and so the idea of Hilary who's so classy and kind of wholesome doing that was pretty funny.
There's a real kind of a lascivious young pop star who wants to be like one of these girls that I don't need to mention. You were just mentioning things that go in the night and flying in the night. Sam Jackson: Really? Do you like to make movies to explore those kinds of things or is it just a script that comes along? Sam Jackson: It's always a movie that interests me or a story I want to tell or something that I saw when I was growing up that made me excited and all of a sudden I can do it.
I don't have to go home and describe it for my friends and I'm actually in something where people teleport and it's kind of like great. And I get to chase them. I can't do it but I can chase them. And then when I catch them I get to beat them up and kill them. Kind of cool. Do you get to box for the Rod Lurie movie? Sam Jackson: This boxer is in his 60's. He's old, but he still fights because kids come to the alley and these kind of bad kids pick on him and they want to make him fight and so he kind of, they kind of bum fight him, beat him up.
I know at one point after Cabin fever Eli Roth was attached to this, what happened with his involvement and also what is your dialogue like with Stephen King?
Lorenzo di Bonaventura: Well, Eli was attracted to it right away. It was madness, an entirely different movie actually. He has such a love of the most bloody parts of the genre that I think it scared everybody at the time. Lorenzo di Bonaventura: Stephen pretty much lets the filmmakers make their decisions.
John Cusack: There is something about his stories that are so rich that I think he gets really undervalued as a writer, like I said because we were going through the script and we'd get in a room and there'd be a certain kind of logic that you have to play out and you have to kind of keep going.
And so we kept going back to this page short story just to see what did he write? And there was always stuff we could pull from, just little details or lines or turns of phrases or descriptions. It was amazing. It was like this page piece that was like a bottomless well of stuff. John Cusack: The guy's think Olin's evil and the girls think he's not, which is interesting. All the girls I've talked to said, 'no he's a good guy. He's trying to help you out. He's the crypt keeper. He's the one who set you up for all this.
Sam Jackson: Hopefully, I can be the cryptkeeper for the next three incarnations of this film. Mary McCormack: ' That's right. Mary McCormack: I am. Did that make it harder to imagine a dying child? Mary McCormack: At the time I had one, so it was easy. Two ups it. My second one is this big but she was not around then. My first was. And yeah it's hard but helps I think. I mean I think every actor uses their life and their relationships and to sort of act as their emotional life and so yeah.
Did you go home and hug your daughter? Mary McCormack: A lot. But at work she died a horrible death. Sam Jackson: Torture porn? I want to see it now! Is that like Asian cinema or something? What is it? Asian extreme, gonzo? Lorenzo di Bonaventura: I hesitate to put any genre into any sort of a box, and I think what this movie does versus what Eli has done in those movies is two totally different experiences. And so I look at them as the exist in two different worlds as opposed to living in the horror genre.
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