Horror Round Up!

Yesterday I ended up watching stuff I'd seen before, because I was fading in and out of consciousness most of the day! Also, it was a Stephen King day just because.

The Langoliers
Misery
Hearts in Atlantis*

And then I was relatively awake, or at least sitting up and focusing on the TV, so I tried out something I hadn't seen!

Sometimes They Come Back: I was unsure of the movie version, simply because I wasn't sure there was enough in the short story to fill two hours of movie. Sometimes filler works - like with Nightshift, where they just took the general idea and fleshed it out - and sometimes you get Maximum Overdrive. And I enjoyed the short story. So I went in with trepidation.

I was pleasantly surprised. Despite some added things, they movie followed the plot of the story pretty closely. The fleshing out was done well, the casting was great (why hello there, Mr. Beaumont from The Dark Half! Nice to see every actor in a SK adaptation gets at least two!) and it was just a good, creepy scary movie.

*I know there is a great deal of debate as to whether Low Men in Yellow Coats/Hearts in Atlantis is horror or not. I consider it a paranormal thriller, which falls under the horror umbrella. Especially because if you have read the novella, you know what those 'agents' really are.

Now I'm watching The Seventh Sign.