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I feel like “children shouldn’t play with dead things” is a great first act to pair with “pet cemetery”

As a parent who has lost a child... This book is one of the most accurate depictions of the kind of mania and desperation I experienced, I felt like Louis and Rachel. I get why King sees this as his scariest novel (I agree) but to me it's also the most tragic horror story I've ever read.

This book scared the living hell out of me. I agree it is absolutely his scariest. After reading it I couldn't sleep for almost three days. I also believe it is the best book of his I've read, however. I admire how effective it was in its horror.

love algernon blackwood’s Wendigo😊

I remember this novel. My mom bought me this book, and she used to read it to me when I was 5 or 6 years old. Since I do not live in an English-speaking country, the version I have is translated. Although I wasn't old enough to understand the concept of horror and couldn't tell if the translation was good enough, this story still scared me a lot.

As a parent, it really is terrifying.

I don't want to be buried in a pet cemetery. But since I'm often mistaken for a dog it's probably unavoidable.

One of the other things that King has said in regards to "Pet Sematary", (the writing of it, in any case) was that he was in a very dark place in his life at the time. He reports having been quite unhappy in that period of his life. Though he was an internationally celebrated bestselling novelist by this point, and his family's concerns about money were now behind them, he was having a hard time with domestic "family life". Coping with the stressors and pressures of being a husband and father involved drinking a lot of alcohol and bumping huge rails of coke on a regular basis. He's gone as far as to say that what little he remembers of the process of writing "Pet Sematary", his memories are very hazy and fragmented. It's a bleak story, because he was feeling very bleak at the time. In fact, finishing the final draft, he intended to throw it away. It was his wife Tabitha who saw it, read it, and said: "This MUST be published."

0:45 "And to this day he considered it the most frightening novel that he's ever written" Well, I'm glad SOMEBODY does. I read it, it's DULL. I read voraciously, Novels from many genres [except westerns, and romance novels, i have SOME standards], but while i have ENJOYED many Horror novels, I've never actually read one that has Frightened me. There is something about Horror rendered in prose that really doesn't "Grab" me. Sci-Fi, Sure, Murder Mysteries are incredible AND engaging, But Horror novels... I've NEVER read one that has had the desired effect. King is NOT even the best Horror author there is, and when he reached a point in his career where the publishers would cut him a HUGE advance for writing "Boo!" on a cocktail napkin, his work had REALLY deteriorated to the formulaic and predictable, and the ONE THING that is the kiss of death for Horror, be it movies, books, TV, Radio, ANY media, it's being PREDICTABLE. How can you be frightened when you can time the jump scares in a Horror movie down to the second? There's no "Unknown" there's just ticking all the boxes. Honestly the MOST horrifying thing I've ever read in a King novel was the child sex scene in "It". To this day I wonder why he hasn't been had up on child pornography charges for that sequence. Didn't "Scare" me, it was just all kinds of creepy and wrong. I think a LOT of people are just mistaking disbelief and revulsion for Fear.

I am currently reading this one. I am having hard time reading it, but also a hard time putting it down.

I had a hard time finishing it, scary disturbing read.

I always thought it was his book Rage when he was writing under the Bachman pen name. But now that I think about it, I think it’s more guilt and the sense of he feels indirectly responsible for the events that would happen after its release. I can see why this one he considered the scariest though. I had to take frequent breaks while reading it, no horror book has ever done that for me before 😅

Oh, I thought this video was going to be about "The Great God Pan" by Arthur Machen. Famously, Stephen King claimed it was the scariest novel he ever read and possibly the scariest ever written. Still, though, this is an interesting video!

One curious thing about this movie is that everyone seems obsessed with Miranda. They're more worried about her than the other 2 girls. Just my impression though, could be wrong.

A fascinating video! Thank you.

Picnic at Hanging Rock is a complete work of fiction. Yes we all like a good mystery but there is absolutely no record of any girls going missing at Hanging Rock before, after or during the timeline the novel is based around.. It's just a good story and that's all there is to it.

There are many people involved in this mystery but I think we tend to underestimate the role played by Edith. Edith was the only one back from the trip to the rock and even though she does not remember... she does remember many things. And the mystery actually revolves around what Edith tells us. Edith testifies that nobody was ill or injured on the rock. She also admits, that she did not meet any person during her stroll at the rock. And even more important she is the only one who saw Miss McCraw climbing the rock "without le pantalon". From what Edith says we find out that no accident or abuse occurred on the rock. And we have to look somewhere else to find an explication. Moreover, we can wonder why of all the girls it is the chubby lazy petulant Edith to follow her comrades up to the rock on a hot summer afternoon. My theory is that Edith feels too. She feels the force the rock emanates and she is intrigued by it. But as in the theory of magnets, she, unlike her companions is not attracted but repelled and terrified by that force. "No Miranda, no up there, come back". Last but not least in her chat with the policeman, she says the only thing she could remember while descending the rock was "that nasty pink cloud". Again, another evidence, that the Nature plays a role on the destiny of the girls

Why would everyone in the story have been long dead in 1967? They were teenage girls in 1900, and women generally live longer than men. They would have been in their early to mid 80s. I think easily half of would have been still living.

It seems clear Joan Lindsay had some occult involvement and this would lead her to have some success as a writer. She states the story came to her in subsequent dreams. This is not natural and indicates supernatural deception. It appears to be derived from the actual disappearance of 3 boys elsewhere, indicating foul play. In the story the implication is that 3 girls disappeared inside caves on the rock, taken by demons on Valentine Day (one of their inventions). Possibly demons do inhabit cave systems there and they fantasise on it being true. Other aspects of the story also indicate demonic involvement; stopped clocks and watches, suicides etc. In the film the chubby less attractive girl was found after long repeated searching of the rock, but conveniently had no recollection of the events and couldn't speak. The implication was she had been taken but ejected, as she was battered but had no marks on her feet and had not been raped.

The girls went to the Black Lodge

We find out eventually in Australia, certainly that the novel is fiction complete fiction, and the author kept that secret for many many decades

All the primary classes of my school, and I expect most public schools in Australia, were taken to the cinema to see Picnic at hanging Rock. Once seen never forgotten! I just watched it on DVD and i am. Thank you for adding to the wonderful narrative surrounding this movie, book and author.

Since 1972 I thought the story was based on actual facts and today I now think the story is fictional and has no through.

Metropolis

Lovely story, but this is 100% fiction. This has not happened.

One of my favorite movies, and you’ve got a new subscriber. I remember reading some interview with Lang and the subject of Metropolis came up and he mentioned that he wasn’t satisfied with the film because he felt the moralizing and religious themes were somewhat heavy handed, although IMO that film was made by a man at his creative heights and there is little to compare it to in the impact it had on cinema at the time, probably Metropolis and Dr Mabuse the Gambler will always be two of my favorite Lang films of the 1920’s. Thanks for this video 😊

One of my favourite Films of All time. 🪷🩷. 🎼 On a loop in my twenties. And cracking soundtrack @. 🩷🩷🩷 Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto. ( # movement 2 ) Thank You @ 💘💘💘 Dark Side. 🤫

Wonderful documentary. Very sad story that this happened back then. I saw the movie with Joan Collins. The girl in the red velvet swing. Very good movie. Thank you so much for this great video.

Thank you for such great insight. Such an influential film & a fave of mine.

It's a wee criminal that such clarifications on one of Cinema's first proper steps into sci-fi are not more widely watched and commented.

Your audio needs work. The sound is "blowing out." An audio filter can fix that. Next time test your audio before recording and adjust levels.

Bravo! Another brilliant and very in-depth video! I truly believe that your work will inspire a new generation of film enthusiasts to explore and appreciate the masterpieces of the past. Thank you for sharing your passion with the world!

A lifetime of experiences and hard graft written into the bush.

A dream within a dream - the rock embracing her children.

Awesome video. EWS is fascinating.

Tom Cruise/Bill attended these power elite parties but he was never more than the house doctor. Kubrick did the same but he was never more than the in-house filmmaker.

Look for all the circles and spheres.

Star Wars looked cool, but Blade Runner was art.

This was a very insightful and well edited video essay. I'm sure a lot of work went into it. Well done. Blade Runner is a move I hated as a child and was ambivalent to as an adolescent. But as an adult it (and the sequel) is one of my favorite movies of all time. It seems like the more media literacy I gained, the more I found to love. The best movies are the ones you can spend a lifetime analyzing and still manage to find something new, or at least interesting.

Well, from one Dark Side to another... glad I found you. You've earned a new sub. Excellent work. very, very well done. I did part of my thesis in the '90s on this masterpiece of a film, and the novel. 41 years later, we're still debating, and appreciating this work, the glorious Vangelis' score... things haven't been lost in time, like tears in the rain, after all ;)

This is by far the most in-depth video on the origins of Blade Runner that I've ever seen. However, given your other videos, I wouldn't expect anything less. Love it!

Awesome video

Never heard a more curmudgeonly review of a must re-watch movie, EWS? Your video essay was only missing the "Bah Humbug" of a christmas character tossing rocks at children as they go wasseling by your bedroom widow. As for the eyes on his back, 1:35 it begins as a wide eye and then shuts. It is actually a camera flare from the lamp in front of bill that is shinning on the camera lens. But Kubric was a mad hatter at illumination (Barry Lindon) so for him to allow that glare to stay in the film, it was intentionally placed there Kubric is meticulous. You missed that Bill is in Wonderland he is the lizard that attempts to remove Alice from the white rabbit's house that she is as if wearing as a costume.

is it out of the realm of possibility that kubrick was killed? i think not. kubrick was bill, and even though he doesn't come right out and tell us the deep dark secrets. he leaves plenty of clues and hints in all his movies ,especially this one which is my favorite. it's visually stunning, a piece of art. and like any good piece of art, it's filled with hidden meaning. the only part of the film that i find unsatisfying is bill. bill was a cuck. he didn't want to be one and went on this journey, but never made sex magic with any of the women he had a chance to and in the end went back to alice who doesn't seem attracted to him and was clearly preparing to cuckold him if she hadn't already. alice definitely seemed to know a lot more than she let on and if she had anything to do with the orgy cult, then she was definitely cuckin bill. i would of found it much more satisfying if he had banged every woman who crossed his path, especially the model threesome, even tho it was before the mindfuck cuckdream that set this whole story in motion was revealed to him. and not the girl who had aids, that would of been a mindfuck of its own. but back to my original point, yeah they killed him. he revealed too much. just like the overdose in the movie and like epstein's suicide in prison, it's made to appear that there is no foul play but it's all a part of the illusion. it's how they keep our eyes wide shut.

Wednesday Midle name is friday and of course i will not say everything! The serie from the 60s was great. All the rest is COPY

Quite well done. Higher quality than most made-for-CZcams content. Thank you.

If I can say, if you visit grave explorations he did a two hour video about this it’s brilliant and so is your video too!

Of course the mask on the bed in the end, means that Nicole Kidman was one of the mind programmed temple prostitutes, who was also at the elite ball. She goes into hypnotic disassociation at the end of the film. Really brilliant video! Way above average for You Tube

This video was fantastic! You spoke about things in this film I didn't notice before. Extremely well done and I learnt a lot! Thanks

What could be more unsettling, upsetting, and off-putting than the death of a child described in detail? I have both book and film (both) and cannot reread the funeral chapter, it's just too emotionally overwhelming...