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Summary: No Matter What Anyone Else Thinks.........
Review: IF you love old Victorian or Mansion style homes and furnishings; IF you love the mysterious supernatural instead of blood and guts; IF you love to watch lenghty movies; YOU WILL want to add this one to your collection. The video quality and sound quality are great.
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Summary: Stephen Kings Haunted Abode.
Review: The Chilling Tale of Dr. Joyce Reardon an obsessed psychology professor who commissions a team of psychics and a gifted 15 year old autsitic girl, Annie Wheaten, to literally wake up a supposedly dormant haunted mansion.....ROSE RED. Thier efforts unleash a myriad of spirites and uncover horrifying secrets of the generations whom have lived and died there.
This movie has lots of extras from a complete abc documentary, to design artwork, to a diary, a making of documentary, and production commentary. Dolby Digital 5.1
Not the best stephen King Movie.....yet not the worst.
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Summary: It could have been better...
Review: I was really expecting better from this movie, even though many of Stephen King's books don't translate to movies very well. I think what made the movie so bad was the actors/actresses. And the actress who practically ruined the entire film was the lead actress Nancy Travis. She is gawd-awful. She seemed to only show one emotion and she always had that same stupid sneer on her face. If someone had cast an actress who could have actually "acted" (same with the other cast members) the movie probably would have been better. It's a shame to, cause the book was actually good and had me intrigued.
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Summary: Awful
Review: You really can't get a better example of a cast that cannot act than in this one. I don't think I need to go through what the DVD is about, but rather dive into what is going to be a rather scathing commentary of this DVD. The actress who plays Dr Joyce Reardon is stiff and spends most of the time smirking annoyingly. Somehow she comes across as someone who thinks her acting is top notch when nothing could be further from the truth. That alone is quite enough to ruin everything as she's the main character. Annie the autistic girl, you expect me to believe that girl is autistic?? If you are trying to convey someone who is autistic I would definately suggest you put more effort into the physical appearance of the character. Scary movie? Please. Storyline boring, nothing scary. The 'ghosts' and unnatural phenomenon is too unnatural nobody will believe it. I say stick to writing Mr King. Your effort here is just terrible. And I'm being kind here.
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Summary: No wonder Steven Spielberg ditched this project. It's AWFUL
Review: Who cares about a tired rip off of the Winchester Mystery house?! From what the commentary says, King and Spielberg were working on a haunted house story together. Watch "rose red" and you'll know why Spielberg backed out. This thing STINKS.1) Awful acting.
2) Not 1 character that's the slightest bit interesting.
3) Not a single character you'd care about. Let the haunted house have 'me, they're just wasting film and our time.
4) The Sponge rocks special affects are laughable till you realize someone got paid to do that!
5) The Sponge rocks special affects are the 'best' *shudder* special affect in the film. A couple of 12yr olds with mom's video camera would do better.
6) When the story tries to be funny it's not. When it tries to be scary, it's not, when it... n.m. you get the point.
7) Four of the "actors" (I use the term loosely) can only talk out their nose so there's this HORRIBLE nasal screech to 99% of the scenes. David Dukes (Professor Carl Miller) apparently died during the filming. I swear it was from embarrassment from being involved in such an awful project. Everyone involved with this mess should be placed under a restraining order permanently banning them from getting within half a mile of a film.
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Summary: BLOOD AND ROSES
Review: Bringing a Stephen King novel to the screen or even King's own screenplays have wrought us more ineffective translations than good ones. A few rare examples: "The Dead Zone," "Carrie," "Salem's Lot", "Stand by me" and "The Shawshank Redemption." ROSE RED could have been a really epic haunted house movie, but King borrows so much from previous novels and the producers dug up some really bland actors, therefore negating the potential right away. So much of what goes on in "Rose Red" is muddled and pretentious. Characters disappear and obviously die, but for some reason the script doesn't allow us to see that. Even though made for TV, I think a little more actual scenes of the murders may have made it a little more interesting. As far as the acting goes: Nancy Travis (?) does not have the chops to carry such a schizophrenic role; she tries but a more seasoned actress could have made her more believable. Overacting awards have to go to Laura Kenney (Emery's mother); Matt Ross (Emery himself); David Dukes (sad he died during the filming, but his performance was too comedic to be taken seriously). Kimberly Brown as Annie, Matt Keesler as Steve, and Judith Ivey as Kathy did well; the others merely adequate. Craig Baxley's direction was good at times, very eeries and spooky, but then sometimes lapsed into melodramatic hokiness.
Not an awful adaptation of a King work, but overall disappointing.
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Summary: Bad Job
Review: This film was the worst haunted house film I have seen. It was very predictable. It did not follow Ellen's diary as it should have. I do not recommend it.
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Summary: I felt this could of been better
Review: I LOVE Stephen King, and when I first saw Rose Red, I was kind of disappointed. First I thought the story was creppy, but the visual effects were not all the good, and he could not add the images of people getting killed which he is known for, so that kind of took that away from the film. If it was done on HBO or Showtime, then it could of been different because it would show the blood, the gore, and everything that makes a good Stephen King novel, well a Stephen King novel. Also they could of add some of King's humor, but sometimes his humor is kind of obscene, but it is funny nonetheless.
It is a good movie to see, but it is just better to rent it at Blockbuster, or your local library.
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Summary: Good, but not worth $22.49
Review: Rose Red, to me, is one of Stephen Kings better stories.The problem with the movies is that they are never as good as his books.Most of them are low budget.But all in all this movie is not that bad....
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Summary: A non-sense house
Review: I bought this movie after reading some reviews, but after watching it, I was really disapointed. This movie doesn't have any sense, there are many characters that only appears to be killed. I like Stephen King's books, and it is hard to find a movie that makes honor to the book. I still think that the best Stephen Kings movies are: Carrie & Salem's lot.
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