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Movie Reviews of Rose Red
Movie Review: I Can't Help but Love this DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
Stephen King has created a masterpiece with this one! The story is of a historical Seattle mansion, mainly historical because it is haunted. A psychology professor named Joyce Reardon is endlessly intrigued by the myth of the house and gets together a team of psychics to come to the house for one weekend and wake it up. I loved all the acting here. Nancy Travis plays Joyce very well. Some people have complained about her performance, but how would you rather have her played? Completely sane and level headed? The beauty of her character comes from its own words: When a person is confronted with something paranormal, then tend to protect their beliefs ferociously. All she wants is that proof. She got it on the first day, sure, but knowing her character, did you obviously think a person so set in her beliefs would leave before the end of the weekend. Joyce was dead set on proving Professor Miller and the other doubters wrong. She didn't just want proof. She wanted as much proof as she could get.
Kimberly Brown is excellent as Annie, who is my personal favorite character. Brown has played other roles, including a Disney Channel movie and some small roles, but I think that if I saw those, I wouldn't like them as much after seeing her in this. She is so radiant and talented in this role, and I hope she continues to edge into, if not more grown-up roles, at least roles in more grown up movies.
Julian Sands said in the documentary that he hoped that his character simply came off as a sexy, charismatic guy, and he is incredibly charming. You can't take your eyes off him when he's speaking. Even when he gestures, or is just standing there, he maintains that characteristic persona. No matter how bad you think the acting is, at least they all stayed in character throughout the movie.
This is an excellent miniseries, and I would love to see even more Stephen King after this. I have seen many haunted house movies, and more than my share of science fiction and fantasy, with a little horror and suspense. This impressed me and I hope it will do the same for you.
Movie Review: I Can't Help but Love this DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
Stephen King has created a masterpiece with this one! The story is of a historical Seattle mansion, mainly historical because it is haunted. A psychology professor named Joyce Reardon is endlessly intrigued by the myth of the house and gets together a team of psychics to come to the house for one weekend and wake it up. I loved all the acting here. Nancy Travis plays Joyce very well. Some people have complained about her performance, but how would you rather have her played? Completely sane and level headed? The beauty of her character comes from its own words: When a person is confronted with something paranormal, then tend to protect their beliefs ferociously. All she wants is that proof. She got it on the first day, sure, but knowing her character, did you obviously think a person so set in her beliefs would leave before the end of the weekend. Joyce was dead set on proving Professor Miller and the other doubters wrong. She didn't just want proof. She wanted as much proof as she could get.
Kimberly Brown is excellent as Annie, who is my personal favorite character. Brown has played other roles, including a Disney Channel movie and some small roles, but I think that if I saw those, I wouldn't like them as much after seeing her in this. She is so radiant and talented in this role, and I hope she continues to edge into, if not more grown-up roles, at least roles in more grown up movies.
Julian Sands said in the documentary that he hoped that his character simply came off as a sexy, charismatic guy, and he is incredibly charming. You can't take your eyes off his when he's speaking. Even when he gestures, or is just standing there, he maintains that characteristic persona. No matter how bad you think the acting is, at least they all stayed in character throughout the movie.
This is an excellent miniseries, and I would love to see even more Stephen King after this. I have seen many haunted house movies, and more than my share of science fiction and fantasy, with a little horror and suspense. This impressed me and I hope it will do the same for you.
Movie Review: Its not Stephen King and other truths
Summary: 5 Stars
The book, the diary of ellen rimbauer my life at rose red, isnt written by king. He never said it was. If you read it and you are an observant reader of his many works, you can tell immediatly that the style isn't his at all. His wife Tabitha wrote it. Read some of her writing and you'll see this. She was inspired by the Winchester Mansion in San Jose California, which becomes blatantly obvious once you've researched the mansion. Winchester Mansion was owned by Sarah Winchester, whose life is tragic in the early loss of her daughter (think April Rimbauer) and her husband- who was the man who invented the repeating gun mechanism which made Winchester gun company so famous, and wealthy. I forget what the mechanism was called, guns hold no interest for me, but it is easily googled. Sarah was told by a fortune teller that the spirits of those killed by the gun mechanism were angry and to appease them she would have to build a great mansion, and keep building it (sound familiar?)Construction was non stop for decades, the first time she gave them a day off she died. Every day she would come to the contractor with plans for something new, plans created in her nightly meetings with the spirits. No full floorplan exists for the house, and the room count changes daily. Odd staircases, sinks with 13 drainholes, doors into walls and windows in the floors are all found in the mansion.
The movie is excellent, although i have outgrown the horror genre. It is the house, not the plot, that I would recommend it for. The house is gorgeous, spookly and imaginative, with many Winchester Mansion like elements. The second dvd, the diary of ellen rimbauer is good if you liked the house enough to want to see it in its glory days, which i did. Mute the sound to enjoy the architecture fully.
Movie Review: Long but well worth it
Summary: 5 Stars
Rose Red is a pretty good and enjoyable movie with phenominal effects and beautiful house/setting.
Although set for present day Stephen King does a great job shifting the story line taking a glimps of the past thru out the movie to give pieces of historical information to lead up to the legends of 'Rose Red Mannor'.
Although fiction, if Im not mistaken pieces of the movie were based off actual legends and also the famouse Winchester house, which I belive has a specific name but I cant remember, but a house/mannor that the widow of the creator of the winchester rifle was told by a spiritualist/psychic to not stop building her house which made it a living legend and tourist attraction as of today...
Im not sure about the other so called legends that supposedly helped form ideas for the book/movie, but the movie was terrific and plain old fun even bringing elements of classic horror from way back to today. Well worth watching a few times over, and full of suspense, mystery, a living house that builds itself trapping/eating its victims as they explore inside, to vampiric ghosts to thepara psychology professor and her hired team of psychics and mystics to spend a memorial day week-end lock in investigation only to find slowly they are actually being used and being the hunted themselves.
Again, just plain old good horror fun with great story line and superb effects, and a huge creepy old beautiful mansion it takes place in.
If you buy the dvd make sure you see the specail features as it tells about the other real legends that have taken place to have inspired Stephen King to write the book for this movie. Very intresting actually and just as fun to watch this as well...
Enjoy!
Movie Review: One Great Stephen King Movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
Rose Red is one heck of a Stephen King movie, infinitely better than his other movies like Christine, The Golden Years, The Tommyknockers, It, and his many others. Here, King has written a movie full of both suspense and offbeat humor as well as moments of sheer horror.
King seems to have a fascination for powerful young ladies as seen in Firestarter and Carrie, and here he continues that tradition with Annie, an autistic teenage girl with phenomenal telekinetic abilities. It is Annie who mostly steals the show.
Some reviewers claim that this miniseries is needlessly too long, but when you get into, time just seems to fly when there's no commercial interruptions to break the mood. I love Rose Red. This movie is a lot more gripping than Storm Of The Century or even Stephen King's, It. This miniserries has a flaw or two-- we see too little of the psychics before the house gets them, and Nancy Travis' performance at the end could've been a little bit more emotional when she realizes that she is not leaving that house-- ever, but those are minor little things that don't really mar an otherwise great mini-series. I only have one slight objection, though: despite that this is supposed to be closed-captioned, it really isn't. Otherwise, this is a great movie.