{"id":2119,"date":"2023-01-08T06:40:20","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T06:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.halloweenvideocrypt.com\/?p=2119"},"modified":"2023-01-08T06:40:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T06:40:22","slug":"rose-red-2002-the-shinings-little-sister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.halloweenvideocrypt.com\/2023\/01\/08\/rose-red-2002-the-shinings-little-sister\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Rose Red&#8221; (2002) &#8211; &#8220;The Shining&#8217;s&#8221; Little Sister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I want to like &#8220;Rose Red&#8221; but it is just not a very scary or suspenseful movie.  I don&#8217;t really like any of the characters so that impacts my interest toward this two-night Stephen King television movie.  It used to be a regular event for network television to buy one of King&#8217;s properties and then create a TV movie.  Some were good, others not so good.  I think this is one lesser quality King works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A team of ghost hunters head off to a notorious haunted property to see if they can find any evidence of activity.  Their search will of course take a disastrous turn for the worse before they are done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I certainly can&#8217;t fault King&#8217;s enthusiasm for the haunted house story.  Certainly, &#8220;The Shining&#8221; stands as a monument to that category.  It&#8217;s just that &#8220;Rose Red&#8221; seems to lean too heavily on past haunted house themes as can be found in Shirley Jackson&#8217;s &#8220;The Haunting of Hill House&#8221;, and Richard Matheson&#8217;s &#8220;Hell House&#8221;.  There are also references to &#8220;Ghost Busters&#8221; and &#8220;The House of Haunted Hill&#8221;.  Go seek out those works for more engaging and frightening examples of the haunted house tale.<\/p>\n <!-- AdSense Now! 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