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"With the right amount of self-confidence and bull$#!%, you can accomplish anything."
You didn't quote anything. And I don't believe you.
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Yeah, it certainly hasn't stood the test of time. I could definitely see it being a fairly successful scary movie in the 80s, but watching it now, by today's standards, it's just downright laughable.
Actually, I still enjoy watching the movie, right to this day.
(I watched it again on Youtube just a couple of weeks ago.)
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Couldn't disagree more. I think it has held up VERY well and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I don't love her.. She kicked me in the face!!
Uhhhhhh I just watched it for the first time, in 2015, am 30 years old, have been a lifelong horror fanatic my entire life, and found it to be absolutely terrifying and would state without hesitation that it is without a doubt Wes Craven's best film and in the upper tier of horror movies I have ever seen. So...
shareActually, this is true. This was well-known at the time of the film's release, that the book author, Wade Davis, was VERY unhappy with the film.
He actually went to Haiti and supposedly did extensive research on Voodoo culture and religion there. His book of his experiences and the contextual information about the history of all of that was considered a serious book.
Then, Hollywood bought the rights and proceeded to make a big, typical, Hollywood, straight-up horror film.
Davis, it's true, HATED the film version. I remember him decrying it on the old Phil Donahue show in 1988.
I think it's a fun, surreal horror movie (although there's one scene that approaches "Beetlejuice" territory, and I thought that was laughable).
It's certainly not the first time a book author has hated the film version of his book.
For what it's worth, this isn't exactly the movie Wes Craven wanted to make. The studio wanted a horror movie, and he gave in somewhat in order to keep the job. That's Hollywood for you!
shareRight, because the horror genre has evolved so much since the 80s.
shareIt isn't the best movie I've ever seen or anything but it isn't that bad. I give it a 7/10.
shareSo what? Stephen King hated Kubrick's The Shining, Anthony Burgess hated Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, Anne Rice hated the adaptation of Interview with the Vampire, and surely there are more authors that hated adaptations. All of those movies are great, though. Some things only work on paper and cannot be properly translated to the screen without significant changes.
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