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Children of the Corn, Lost in Adaptation ~ The Dom
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- čas přidán 30. 10. 2017
- The Dom takes a look at the similarities and changes between the short story in Night Shift and the 1984 film Children of the Corn.
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Dom: Isaac is a good child actor
Me: *scrolls down to comments*
Dom: Actually he's not even a child, I was baiting you
Me: *scrolls back up in shame*
...Sorry
Eva Kara Don't worry I did the same thing lol
Eva Kara At least you scrolled down to look.
I didn't even see the other comments I was so ready to be a smartass
Same XD
+1
Dom: "He's a good child actor."
Me: "Dang, that's pretty cool."
Dom: "Just kidding, he's in his 20s."
Me: "WHAAAAT?!"
Cometstarlight He is also cousin Itt in the Addams family ^^
He only suffers from a growth hormone deficiency as well, so not a syndrome, he is quite short due to it though.
I actually found out about this through Nostalgia Critic
Sophia Foster Same.
My favorite aspect of the Children of the Corn movie isn't anything about the film itself, but the fact there are so many stories about the set being haunted, air being let out of tires, things being moved about, etc. Every single one of those "hauntings" were locals messing with the crew.
PKMNTrainerLilly I never heard of that and I grew up not far from what the movie was filmed. Cool.
I grew up in Maryland, near the woods where Blair Witch was filmed. Tourism in the tiny town of Buckettsville exploded, so locals started stacking rocks and leaving those creepy Blair Witch dolls in the forest to scare them off, lol. The real cryptids are locals.
That is awesome 😄
@@pkmntrainerlilly5 I don't blame them. I wouldn't be happy with a bunch of dumbasses comming to my town looking for an imaginary witch because of some movie.
@@pkmntrainerlilly5 "The real cryptids are locals."
More or less the message of Children of the Corn.
Fun useless fact: "He Who Walks Behind The Rows" is revealed later to be Randall Flagg, a recurring Stephen King antagonist who primarily appears in "The Stand" and "The Dark Tower".
Really? Is there some point to that or was it just a pointless connection. Sounds kinda lame to me but i guess i can just ignore that when reading the story.
I don't think there's a point. King just likes to connect his novels with little references and stuff like that.
I guess the point is that a lot of King's books are connected. I haven't read much but from what I've read it seems like he wants to make this universe while not being too obvious about it so both first time readers and fans can appreciate his books.
But maybe I'm just readong a bit too much into this.
Did someone say Stephen King Connected Universe? Ka is a wheel.
Antti Saavalainen most of King's novels have slight connection, most lead back to the Dark Tower series. It's most evident in The Stand and It, the latter of those two also has connections to Tommyknockers and Dreamcatcher.
When I was a child my family lived in a hour in the middle of a corn field. I used to run off to play in it and no matter what my mother did she couldn't stop me. So, she did what any reasonable parent would do, made me watch Children of the Corn to give me a healthy fear of it. I can't judge her too harshly because it worked.
When visiting my great-grandmother's farmhouse near the cornfields, my brother and I weren't allowed to go into the corn, especially when it got tall for fear that we would get lost (like my grandmother's cat did once. Kitty was kept on a long leash when she went outside after that). To make sure we didn't, my mother told us awful things would happen if the pollen got in our hair. We stayed out of the cornfield.
corn fields are irresistable ^^
I think that the biggest weakness with King adaptations is that King's books are very psychological and a lot of it is told through characters' thoughts or through the narrator DESCRIBING characters' thoughts which obviously doesn't translate well onto the screen.
And so few have gotten it right. Four right off the top of my head that did get the stories fairly (depending on your interpretation of such) right: Carrie (1976), Shawshank Redemption, Misery & The Green Mile. Those had directors that really dove into what makes their characters so compelling even with their changes sprinkled in
yeah, that and his style relies just like lovecraft on you filling the gaps with what would scare you most, this typs of horror translate terribly cause there i no way to personalise a movie mosters look or translate the inner life of a character like that on screen
Yep, same thing with Lovecraft. How do you visually depict something so indescribably terrifying it can literally drive a person insane?
I can buy that the neighbors from the next town wouldn't have checked in to see what was happening in Gatlin for 3 years, or even 12. But this whole plot would have burst right open once Internal Revenue realized that an entire town had stopped filing it's taxes, especially after more than a decade. But then they could have filed for tax-free status as a religious movement....
wooden coyote I’m honestly now just imagining they sent agents down there to investigate and basically ends with the Army being sent.
The thought alone of a bunch of little kids no older then 16 taking down the US army (and talking tanks and all) is sending me into s laughing fit.
@@TheJthedog
😂😂😂
And, that's something I hadn't considered.
"how hard is to drive in a straight line"
Well, fun fact, if you walk a straigt line with no vision whatsoever (eyes closed, fog or, well, tall vegetation) you will actualy veer to one side and make a full circle or downright spiral many times. It's been scientificaly proven over and over and even made into an episode of Mythbusters. Basicaly, without vision, you will NOT move in a straight line. Including drive and even swim.
MrKlausbaudelaire but all you have to do when driving is hold the steering wheel straight.
Randy Your hands would go left and right with no point of reference.
Randy Not so much, when you drive you are constantly making small microcorrections based on visual input. Without that you'd have no way of knowing you had drifted to one side or the other and would fail to travel straight.
also, what's to say the corn god wasn't stopping them? they were driving on a road through corn, and luring in more sacrifices is always a thing.
And, one year later, all the idiots doing the Bird Box challenge while driving prove this statement true.
Ha, you've almost got me with your comment about the actor's age. It's good I have a habit of watching the whole video before commenting.
Or like me and others, you watched the Nostalgia Critic do Children of the Corn first.
Well, that too:) I thought: "Wait, I find it's highly unlikely that the Dom did not see Critic's review of the movie. He is messing with us, right?"
Personally I’ve never understood why anyone would comment before watching the rest of the video. Just makes more sense to wait you know?
+Willliam Leonard Reese Jr.
For people watching a video on release and want their comment to be seen (for being informative, let's hope) by accumulating likes, it's imperative that it's written as soon as possible.
I was just about to comment on it, but I scrolled down to see if anybody else had already done it, and spotted your comment.
I would just like to add, that the actor of Issac, John Franklin, actually co wrote the Children of the Corn 666. Tho they had to make changes to the original script due to a condensed budget and I think time restriction.
He is a very sweet man, who use to teach at a school in California, just recently retiring, he taught screenwriting, English, and Shakespeare and after retiring he went back into acting again and he appeared in an episode of Brooklyn 99. Very great man, glad he's working again.
He was a teacher for, I’m assuming high schoolers? Must have been an interesting experience having a teacher that looked like your little brother.
he was also Cousin Itt
To be fair about the distance, my small town (village technically) is about 28 miles away from the nearest city and there are people who have grown up in that city aren't aware where our town is. Even though we're right there and won state football championship in '06 and '72. So it is possible for for the 19 miles to actually be quite distant
I had to take a detour in Illinois while driving from Wisconsin. Miles and miles and miles of flat land, houses far apart -- nobody's popping off for a bit of impulse shopping when it takes an hour to get into town.
One detail I do wish you had included, though, is that the fact the children's society had lasted 12 years was not entirely location based in the book. It's one of the early clues that the figure they worship is real and exerts real influence on the world. The guy narrating it in first person even explicitly calls that out in this thoughts at one point. I think it was right before the monster gets him. Therefore, moving the town closer to others doesn't really make any difference... except that they don't call out the town being shielded as magic in the movie, despite having a big terrible special effect at the end.
Did you go through the entire review without shouting "HEDGES ARE NOT SCARY!!"
well, the movie never really threw in a trying-to-be scary scene in the cornfield, everything that tried to scare you was outside the field.
Yeah, but it still feels weird that he didn't just say it for the joke, THE MOVIE'S ABOUT CORN! Plus I think there are one or two scenes that could be used.
If you've every tried to run through a field of corn you'd know that IT IS SCARY!
There weren't any hedges.
No, popcorn, balloons, and trucks aren't supposed to be scary. Well, unless you're one of the people who has an odd phobia.
Dom, "... poorly cast..." shows Brad Dourif :O Mr Dourif is an ornament to any production that includes him!
It was good until they showed that the monster was real. It was way scarier when you didn't know if it was some demon creature or if it was bizarre mob mentality/cult
“Maybe the beast is just us”
Same thing with It in my opinion. It was scarier before you found out it was some kind of spider alien.
@Embelm12 I agree in this case; usually the mystery is scarier for me, but somehow with Children of the Corn the idea of He Who Walks Behind the Rows being legitimately real was much more terrifying.
Then you must hate the book too because as Dom pointed out, he was real and made an appearance in book when he killed the main guy. He's even been confirmed by King to be "Randall Flagg" a recurring supernatural antagonist in his books...
@@RiveroftheWither I just find pluasible, everyday, real-life horror to be more scary. It has nothing to do with the book or adaptation, just personal perception of what terror/horror is. I also just prefer man v man, man v self, and man v society fiction over man v environment or man v god(s)/supernatural unless the latter is super well done or super cheesy. It's just preference and a part of the horror for me is the extistential dread of not knowing why all those children murdered so many ppl
...deletes comment about the actor's age...
The town being 19 miles away in the film is actaully a reference to many King books as King has a weird thing with the number 19, with it being featured heavily in his magnum opus the Dark tower series, and also appearing in many other books including the shining (2+17=19). The Reason behind it is likely because he published his first short story at age 19.
Dom: Isaac is a really great child actor
Me (having never seen the movie): Oh yeah?
Dom: Nah, he was actually a man in his 20's
Me: hE WAS WHAT!?!?
That was me too.
Once he tells you, you can see it. Before then, he looked like a precocious kid.
he also played Cousin Itt a few years later
The thing is, that even in the corniest regions of the heartland, there are absolutely no towns which are "hundreds" of miles from any other. There's no town in the lower 48, even in the desert SW, that's more than a few dozen miles from another. The fact that the town in the story has been able to stay isolated for 12 years is frankly impossible, unless He-Who-Skips is using magic to steer people away from it and make people forget about it (including the IRS: are the kids still filing taxes?) It's just one of those things you are supposed to suspend disbelief on.
The nearest town to me is 65 miles. That’s more than a couple of dozen. And Glasgow Montana is about 240 miles from the next town. I love when people act smug and they have no idea what they are talking about
On the dashboard, Linda Hamilton has a book that's an alternate cover to "Night Shift" (it has a hand from 'I Am the Doorway')
Enjoyed both the movie and the book; they have very different messages and atmosphere.
Intro to the movie, with those children drawings and that music, is iconic to me. And very creepy.
I liked that the happy ending allowed them to make sequels about different children restarting the cult wherever they were taken to. I watched all 8 films when I was a kid. Apparently they're planning another one for 2018!
Once, Thanksgiving was our bastion against the Christmas season, but it has sadly been overrun, becoming just another late-autumn festival celebrating togetherness and sharing and whatnot. Halloween is naturally more predisposed to maintaining its identity distinct from The Holiday Season, but St. Nick is a wily foe; before we know it, Jack Skellington could be transformed into another Happy Holidays Helper.
The Dom: "And now for the optional fourth category I sometimes have that you've all been expecting . . . "
Me: "... Because 'The Lord of the Rings' did it?"
Title Card: "Things they added in!"
Me: "Oh that makes much more sense."
"King's famous dislike of the Christian faith".
King is a Christian. His issue is with the church - and organised religion as a whole - not the faith.
Understandable, really.
SalfordianBlue from what I've seen, he has more of a problem with people using religion as an excuse to hurt others and to just be hateful, which I also have a problem with although I am Christian
That is the very reason I typically stay away from churches nowadays. I'm Christian, but I have no denomination, I'm just a Christian who makes mistakes and tries to keep an open mind and has non-Christian friends.😶
Ehhh... King can say that, but he consistently portrays Christians as assholes and even if you want to say that he's only targeting "those Christians" it's still an uncomfortable fact that "those Christians" are a big part of the faith and the organized church is as well. Obviously it's not black and white but if your impression of most Christians is so bad that you have to separate yourself from them even while professing to be one I think its fair to say you have some hang-ups about the faith.
I don´t know how anyone could be a Christian these days. Don´t get me wrong, I understand why some people need faith in their lives, and christianity is as much of a valid choice as any other religion, but... Its just that we know how christianity started, and got twisted through the years. We know that the modern idea of "christianity" was manufactured by King James in the middle ages. We know that Jesus was actually a Jew, who only preached for other Jews... And he was the main disciple of John the Baptist, the one meant to replace him as the leader of his church after his death, not an independent prophet with his own version of "God" and the church. I don´t know how you can ignore all those historic facts, and believe that historic Jesus would be happy if he came back, and saw millions of people calling themselves "christians", using completly different religious ideas and symbols, and sometimes even killing jews (his own people) in his name.
@@gabrielp9646 Ell your entitled to your opinion but do you really have to go seeking out every mention of Christianity trying to bait people into a debating religion under random youtube comments. This discussion was about King's opinion on the church, not a broader discussion of Christian doctrine, and not every discussion that even mentions religion needs to turn into a debate about the existence of God.
I'd recommend the short film 'Disciples of the Crow', an adaptation of 'Children of the Corn' made a year before this film as part of the 'Dollar Baby' deal. It's more faithful to the original short story, has great tone and atmosphere, and has a fitting (albeit once again different from the short story) ending.
"I just wanted to to see how many people couldn't wait to correct me."
To be fair, if you want to remember any issues you see with a video, it's easier to pause it and type up a response when you see the problem, than to remember all of them all the way through. Plus, it's pretty rare for people to suddenly reverse their stance like you did here, so such corrections are usually accurate.
Anyway, I agree with your assessment, the short story's fine (though the ending could have been tightened) but the movie's a mess.
Have you ever thought of doing some from the Narnia series for this? I find those adaptations interesting because The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe is pretty loyal but then Prince Caspian isn't loyal to the book at all. I never even watched The Voyage of the Dawntreader, but I hear it's pretty different too. It would be interesting to see a full comparison.
You finally got your wish and then some!
4:36 "They've taken to *breeding* very young-"
GOD DAMN IT KING!!
This has been the shittiest Halloween for me. I've had a hard cold for 3 days, and tomorrow is my Birthday.
Given this, i'm rather grumpy, so thank you for this Video Dom.
Karnork Zartorx hope you have a happy birthday tomorrow
I've been sick too this Halloween but I'm really sorry that you had to have it near your birthday. Happy Birthday, man. Hope you feel better soon!
Karnork Zartorx HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
I wanted to correct you on Isaac's actor but was busy and couldn't get to the comments in time...why am I admitting I'm one of those people?
Great episode Dom!
Stephen King adaptations are always a blast!
Have you ever thought of doing an episode about Stephen King's Desperation?
I think you'd have a lot of fun with it.
I feel like the happy ending here is kind of like the ending in the first Rambo movie in comparison to first blood the book, they must have just really wanted to milk sequels out of this franchise so let the main characters live.
Alex Watson oddly though keeping the book ending would have made sequel easy to make as the society would still be active
If they wanted a franchise, wouldn't it make more sense keeping the original ending, so there could be more survivors visiting the town?
If it was new survivors in every movie, wouldn't it start to get repetitive? They'd come to the town discover the cult, get attacked by the children, discover "he who walks behind the rows" and die, rinse and repeat, I feel like that would get boring after a while.
The calm voice of The Dom is a refreshing treat on Halloween
You should do Carrie. I’ve read the book and only seen half of the movie (the newer one at least)
You need to watch the original film it's so much better than the remakes
@@delfin7461 - It's closer to the book, for sure.
There was one other film adaptation of CotC that came out one year before this one. It was a “dollar baby” short film called Disciples of the Crow. It’s runs about 20 min and is far more faithful to the source material than the 1984 movie or its remake. And the low budget presentation makes it supremely unnerving.
Lol, I was actually in the middle of writing a comment when you acknowledged the age of the guy playing Isaac. You know us so well.
I've seen this as a kid after reading Night Shift and even then it annoyed me to no end that they had changed so much.
Nonetheless, well done video! Keep up the good work :)
I had a friend in high school (class of '87) with flaming long red hair, so naturally his nickname was Malachi. Later on I lived in Nebraska for five years, and if you drive across the state, you get about eight hours of corn fields. You can definitely see the inspiration for the story.
You should do a lost in Adaptation of A Wrinkle in time! I have both read the book and watched the movie, although i did personally feel the book was better.
Lost in Adaptation of A Clockwork Orange!
Watching this made me realise just how much I want to see you cover Lord of the Flies, I hope it's on your list.
You forgot to talk about the portrait that was in the church, that was one of the most scariest parts of the story.
Yeah it was.
I actually enjoyed original Malachi's performance. So much when I was pregnant years later, the name was on my short list for boys. I had 2 girls.
More like, Children of the *Corny*
...I'll let myself out
Also welcome to America
Beaver: "Welcome to Canada."
Love waking up to see a new video from The Dom! :)
I highly recommend the audiobook for It, if you're someone that likes to listen to a book while you work/go about your day. The voice acting is good and with a book this long I was glad to not need to set aside giant chunks of time to read it, I was able to blow through It in about a week and a half. (Its ~44 hours long)
Hahaha! I kept my patience regarding the Isaac actor's age. I couldn't accept that The Dom would get that one wrong! Good one.
John Franklin was my h.s. teacher for Shakespeare and Screen-writing; he's a fantastic man who loved his Isaac character to bits, which is one of the reasons why there was a sequel for him that he was able to have a lot of input on!
Bloody hell I should not have watched this during a late night walk in the park.
You really nailed the horror of the story.
2:51
God, was I close. I had faith you'd turn it into a point of comedy, though, and you delivered.
Saw the movie as a kid along with my younger sisters. My mom didn’t really care what we watched. It scared the crap out of us! I never read the book!
If you don't want to do IT, TheDom, then I reccomend Carrie, which has about 3 adaptations.
I just moved to CA in June. Trust me Dom, you’re gonna love it here.
When I got It from Audible I was surprised to see only 40 chapters. I wondered if I was mistaken in thinking It was a really long book. Then I noticed the length of those chapters. On the plus side I got my Mount Everest badge 3 days later. Also if ducklings are ever trapped in a sewer welp that sucks for them because I'm never going near one let alone crawling into one. Ever.
I was in the middle of correcting u about the actor who plays isaacs age when I heard u say u knew and just wanted to see how Impatient we all were. Well played sir, well played.
Your bringing up of that sequel made me chuckle, scratch my head, and search some more... HOW DID ONE SHORT STORY PRODUCE ALMOST 10 FILMS?????
You’ve convinced me to read the short story! Thanks!
Children of the Corn, for all it's many flaws, is an effective, spooky and fun 80s style horror film. Lot of it hasn't dated well but don't listen to all this negativity. Still a fine film. Now that IT has made so much money, I would LOVE to see a big budget remake.
Welcome to the USA and happy Halloween. Didn't know you were moving should watch up date videos more often.
I didn't even know there was another movie other than the 2009 version till Dom did this episode. From what it sounds like the 2009 follows the book better, and as a young adolescent i actually found it a good movie and it did indeed scare me.
OUTLANDER!!!! WE HAVE YOUR WOMAN!
It makes the South Park version's ending sound even better...
"Still want kids?"
"Hell no. I'm getting my tubes tied."
Also, nice f'ing with those jumping the gun to correct you. Massive move but still take the time to amuse yourself.
Good show.
I love your reviews, Dom. I hope you do 'The Night Flier' in the next few years. It was the first full Stephen King movie I ever saw and it's the only time where the movie is better than the short story (by King's own admission and he even wanted to have the writers pen a sequel, but that never happened).
I thought this story was a brilliant look at radicalization of the young; it seems like he's got beefs with full zealots, not religious people in general which is understandable. The indoctrination of kids is especially bothersome to me and I think it's a warning message about how easily cults can form and how beliefs can be twisted in the worst ways even by those that seem 'innocent'.
Books with children as a focus or a major factor should be made as animated films if they are made into films. This means we can get a good voice actress for each kid.
In the movie they manipulated the road signs which is why he went around in a circle. In fact he mentions it in the movie he says what do they have a monopoly on road signs.
I did want Dom to do IT but I'd rather the second part of the film comes out and then we can get a massive or a two-parter episode on another Halloween.
So don't despair, guys! I'm sure The Dom will tackle it some day :P
The fact that Gatlon is 19 miles from another town is a ret-con from King himself from the Stand as it is stated that Hemingford Home is 19 miles away from Gatlon in that novel if I remember correctly.
An obvious alternative to this film is Troma's "Beware Children At Play" which hasn't been adapted from any book whatsoever but has the same premise.
I legitimately live in Gatlin's IRL equivalent and I can PROMISE that Hemingford, is *not* larger than Gatlin or its IRL equivalent. I found how they referred to it like a bastion in Corn as genuine comedy.
Hemmingford is so small and insignificant that it's not even in its own county and has a population of... maybe 800 right now? It's so small that the clinic there is surrounded by nothingness, it's around 1/4 of a square mile in a small village.
It's fairly pretty, I always liked it, but it has *nothing*.
Western Nebraska? Empty. Fading away. A sinkhole. The only thing keeping me here is fear. Being in such a small quiet place leaves you afraid, especially when everyone you know is there, in that one little sinkhole. If I leave, and I've had offers to take up a maid job as far away as Virginia, I'd be hedging my bets that I'd find something special there otherwise you end up empty, alone, and miserable.
It's the weird dichotomy of places as small and worthless as the old army base that Gatlin's IRL equivalent sits on. So bad you know you're in a sinkhole, but so isolated you struggle to adjust to anything else. They're tiny, and slowly imploding, no major shops, just grocery stores, no arcades anymore, no leisure other than the old haunted theatre some poor girl was crushed in. The population increases but the town atrophies.
Hemingford is different in that it's so small and insignificant that it doesn't need to have anything beyond the minimum required to survive.
Even with murderous children, you'd still be better off in Gatlin because Hemingford has... uh, dirt, a grocery store, a clinic, and a bunch of old people and tractors I guess.
Isaac was the best part of that whole dang film. Also, this movie positively horrified me when I was 12.
In the greater kings mythos it’s heavily Implied that Randall Flagg is He Who Walks Behind the Rows
Actually you should wait to do IT until the second part of the movie comes out. There's also The Exorcist or the Hellbound Heart for your non-King Halloween reviews.
I didn't rush to the comments to correct you about Issac but I did make sure to fact check myself before saying anything. Glad I waited.
I was already typing out my comment about the actor being in his 20s when you explained w=that you knew the truth the whole time! Ya got me, The Dom.... This time.....
It seems like the movie remake is way more accurate to the short story, I caught part of it and way actually confused at the changes but you explaining the short story explains a lot.
It's grim as shit
Can confirm
Could you please do a Lost in Adaptation episode on How to Train your Dragon?
Leila Byerly Well, having read the books and watched the TV series and films, if the Dom were to do those the what they didn't change section would be two seconds and the changes would take 2 hours each.
Noelle Meier True. It would be an 'In name only' in my opinion.
besides, the only critiscism Dom can give to the movie is:
"this movie is bloody awesome, go see it".
MrKlausbaudelaire I agree, it is a pretty great movie. It just isn't much of an adaptation.
I imagine people who read the books first sill enjoy the movies. Can't say the same for Percy Jackson.
...damn Dom got me with Isaac's age comment. Oops.
LOL you got me! I was about to rush to the comments to tell you that the actor playing the cult leader was an adult with a medical condition.
I feel like he should do The Sisterhood of the Night. It’s another short story that got adapted into a movie that’s fairly well made. It would be interesting to see how he felt about the adaptation process of that story which is honestly very vague into a full length movie.
I'm pleased that you feel the same about Xmas as I do.
dom- the best child actor is the child who played Isaac, I've never seen a child so good at acting
me- * starts typing comment correcting dom*
dom- btw I knew the actor who played Isaac was an adult who looked young due to a disability, I just wanted to see who didn't wait to correct me on that
me- *starts deleting what was typed down to write new comment*
lol
Would love to see you do a lost in adaptation for 1922 and other short stories.
He Who Walks Behind The Rows is the bad guy from Dark Tower, The Stand, Eyes of the Dragon, and the recently released Gwendy's Button Box.
Dear Dom, I beg to differ. Maybe it was because I first saw this movie when I was about 9 or 10 years old that it scared the crap outta me. That would have been around 1987 so at the time the bad special effects weren't too bad, they were still bad but not by as bad as compared to today's standards. Being a kid at the time I related more to the children in the story and the thought of watching my parents horribly murdered is the thing that scared me the most. I know how bad the movie is but I can't help that I still really enjoy it. It's like a classic to me.
Welcome to CA!
Welcome back.
2:50 Well played, well played...
Guilty.
If you are interested in good movies based on very short stories, The Quiet Man is my favorite John Wayne movie and was based on an 18 page short story.
YOU'RE BACK
I recently read his memoir, and it was interesing, to say the least.
What do you mean I can’t look at your beautiful face during this review?!
Happy Halloween!
hahaha.... almost got me, The Dom. If it weren't for the post below, I might have actually posted about the "child actor" thing.
Though in retrospect, I know you do your research, so I really should have known.
you sir are awesome cause I was going to comment about it but had to delete it after you mention about the actor who played Isaac
John Franklin also played cousin It in Addams Family and Addams Family Values and was in 19 other movies that I can count.
Speaking of adapting short stories to full-length movies without diluting their message...maybe when Christmas rolls around again you might consider doing It's A Wonderful Life and the short story it's based on, "The Greatest Gift"?
Or how about A Christmas Story and the writings of Jean Shepherd that inspired it? (The movie's a stir-fry of several different Shepherd stories about the Parker family.)
Good to have you back! Welcome to the US, it's a really weird country. Deranged & charming by turns, much like a Stephen King novel.
Dude, welcome to the west coast!
I got bad news, Halloween is failing, and Christmas season is creeping into October
Insert horrific Christmas beast taking on the powers of Halloween and marching forward with its baleful eyes?