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Geoff Foley's avatar

Nope. My vote would be for Louis, who upon hopefully learning his lesson with the cat, gives it another try with Gage. Lesson learned that time? Nope. Let’s try it with my dead wife.

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Brian Howard's avatar

I agree that Louis is also very stupid. In his defense, burying Gage and his wife were fueled by the madness of grief. However, before anything happened, he was visited by a friendly ghost who told him in no uncertain terms NOT to go to the evil burial site. When Jed handed him the shovel, he should have said Nah!

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Geoff Foley's avatar

I totally forgot about the ghost visitation!

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Adam B.'s avatar

In the book, it’s much clearer that the Wendigo, which created the burial ground, exerts a malign influence on people—even going as far as engineering the death of Louis’s son—but the script leaves that out, while turning Rachel’s sister (barely in the book) into nightmare fuel.

The book is so good that I didn’t read it until AFTER I’d seen the movie and it still scared me.

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Brian Howard's avatar

Zelda! Also terrifying.

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ric leczel's avatar

Zelda was a name we called girls after this movie, lol

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Mark Hayes's avatar

In all fairness to Fred Gwynne, he was absolutely delightful a few years later in The Cotton Club...

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PLawson85's avatar

Herman Munster in Real Life had an incredibly HIGH IQ.

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Brian Howard's avatar

We went to Harvard!

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E. Lewis's avatar

BRILLIANT!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂

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Billy Pachilakis's avatar

Any movie with Nicolas Cage in it? Also, Joaquin Phoenix’s character in “To Die For” gets a nomination.

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Digital Canary 💪💪🇨🇦🇺🇦🗽's avatar

Yes, Hi from Raising Arizona deserves some love.

Sweet(ish), and hilarious, but goddamn, he’s stupid.

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Brenden O'Donnell's avatar

I love this explanation for the sign’s misspelling! Also thank you for demystifying this movie a bit for me. It still haunts me, often!

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Brian Howard's avatar

Terrifying movie.

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Jordan Orlando's avatar

The movie sucks, and the book is brilliant. The fact that King wrote the screenplay just proves that he has no understanding at all of cinematic horror (if we had any doubts after he trashed Kubrick’s The Shining). I always wanted them to remake it…and when the finally did, it was even worse.

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Shawn Conn, LCSW's avatar

His name is “Jud Crandall.” It’s short for “Judson”, in case you want to change it.

I don’t think he’s the dumbest. I think he was manipulated by the evil that resided in that burial ground. The book does a wonderful job exploring that aspect. The movie kind of glosses over it really quick.

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Blitzkrieg's avatar

Perhaps Jed died once and was buried there. He came back to life and his evil deeds are disguised as stupidity.

Or, maybe not…🥴

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Stephen Pangborn's avatar

You definitely have a point there but I like Fred so much that I’ll forgive that. Most Stephen King books make really bad movies.

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Larry Shell's avatar

That man will forever be Herman Munster in my mind.

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Ben L.'s avatar

The movie fails because it's missing a character, Jed's wife, whom Louis the doctor saved from dying. Seeing how attached Louis' young daughter was to the cat, Jed took a calculated risk as a way to thank Louis. The book describes the pets in a creepier way, less friendly and "off," smelling of grave dirt. But because this is a dumb movie it has to be spelled out for the audience that the cat is evil.

The remake also sucked donkeyballs.

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Hollis Brown's avatar

“It’s that damn road…"

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ric leczel's avatar

great post - just gave this movie a nod in my last post here - https://riclexel.substack.com/p/clones-rescue-humanity?r=bcx26

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Michael P's avatar

Dumbest man in movie history on the right.

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Tom Van Valkenburgh's avatar

Get a job.

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