Novels or movies?
 

Are there any horror works that you feel are better as novels than as movies. I can tell you that I believe all of Clive Barker's works are much more disturbing as written works.

All Stephen King's books are WAAAAY scarier than the movies. I can't talk about Carrie though, cause I didn't read it.

In my opinion, the only quality movies ever made from his stories weren't horror, like The Green Mile or Shawshank's Redemption.

So.. when it comes to Stephen King, read the novels, forget the movies.

It varies from book to book, and movie to movie.

I think Bram Stoker's Dracula (by Coppola) is a lot scarier than the original book. It varies.

Yep, what he said

I agree. :D

I think Koontz' movie adaptions leave something to be desired too. Watchers was a pretty tense book, but the movie missed the mark completely. And Phantoms, I liked the movie but the book was scarier. I was hoping they'd make Twilight Eyes, Midnight, or Cold Fire into movies and do a good job. Those are pretty good stories.

fuck that, books arent scary.

novels and movies are different mediums and are usually completely incomparable

More often then not I like the book better. Sometimes imagination is scarier then FX.

Re: Novels or movies?
 

Has 'Thief of Always' been turned into a movie yet?
I heard it was in production a few years back as an animated film-did I miss it?
Anyway,I think Thief would maybe give his 'book better than a movie' track record a run for it's money.

I agree with you. That's one of my all time favorite books, and it would be great to see it turned into a movie that does it justice. Especially considering it's like a dark fairy tale.
That would be great.

Pet Sematary, Christine, Misery and Carrie were easily as good as the books. Kubrick's version of the Shining is WAY better than King's book.

With King... definitely the novels.

About Misery, that I both read and saw: it was a fair adaptation, but the book was still better, in my opinion. The pain that the guy goes through is really well explained to you in the book, we can barely feel what he's feeling and suffer along with him! And that didn't happen to me when I saw the movie.

I gotta read the Shining then, it's hard for me to believe that a movie is better than the novel in King's case, but I'll keep an open mind about it. :)