There are a lot of Stephen King Modifications that even their beloved author expressed his intense hatred for. shine This movie is the most prominent example, primarily because so many people disagreed with it. But what about the movies he had no part in at all?
These are the movies below. Are they all horror movies? No, but there are a few scary movies scattered throughout. It's not like the Master of Horror only watches horror movies. After all, he doesn't just watch them. He writes From Michael Bay's robot movies to weird horror flicks, these are the movies Stephen King didn't like.
9 Blood Feast (1963)
One of the prototypes of the killers, Blood Feast The film is about a Miami bartender who murders and dismembers women. Why? To revive the goddess Ishtar, the name of another critically panned film.
The king was never a bloody man.
It's a movie that has never had a positive reputation. King's opinion is no different. On his X page, he quotes the question “What's the worst horror movie you've ever seen?” and answers: “For me, Blood Feast“.”
8 The Last House on the Left (1972)
Director Wes Craven's first directorial experience, last house on the leftSome consider this work to be an unworthy work, others a forgotten masterpiece. King is on the former side. To be fair to King, even his fans must admit that the work is outdated and that Sandra Peabody's treatment of it behind the scenes was unacceptable.
He had nice things to say about the remake, though.
When King gave Entertainment Weekly a list of his ten favorite films of 2009, last house on the left The remake came in second. He called it “fantastic… and not just because the 1972 original was so bad.” He also said that “the acting in the remake is superior… the story makes sense, and most importantly, [the remake’s] “The moral compass points true north.”
7 Night of the Tiger (1972)
leprosy night This movie is so ridiculous. It gets worse when you take it seriously, and yet, it's a movie about killer mutant rabbits.
Rabbit fluid
Worse still, instead of creating robotic rabbits with sharp teeth, the film attempts to create an atmosphere of horror by placing the camera close to real rabbits. So unless someone has an extremely rare and extreme fear of Peter Cottontail, they will be left with nothing but confusion over this “horror” film. On his X account, King said, “Giant rabbits? Get out of here.”
6 My Dear Mother (1981)
My dear mother It was always supposed to be a straightforward drama about Hollywood legend Joan Crawford’s horrific treatment of her daughter Christina. But once it was released, the film began to gain a reputation—and not a good one. In fact, the reputation was so bad that Paramount Pictures began marketing it as an unintentional comedy, showing how badly an abuse-focused drama fails to deliver.
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It is now regarded as one of the worst films ever made. Although Faye Dunaway gave some excellent performances, her work in My dear mother It has been so overblown that it is impossible to take seriously. It was also one of two films that King, according to Far Out magazine, described as “the benchmark for horror.” In the case of My dear motherAt least he's right.
5 The Godfather: Part III (1990)
When King wrote a lengthy article for Entertainment Weekly, he began by comparing two films by director Francis Ford Coppola. The first was Coppola's directorial debut, Dementia 13which King described as “an important film.” He then moved on to The Godfather Part 3, The trilogy received much more mixed reviews than the two masterpieces that preceded it.
At least Coda has fixed some of its issues.
But the king's feelings about The Godfather Part 3 (Theatrical pieces, not superior pieces) The Godfather Coda) It was not mixed. The film was described as “lavish, incoherent and boring.” In contrast, Dementia 13He felt it was a “non-issue movie.”
4 Mars Attacks! (1996)
Tim Burton has made better movies than Mars Attack! But are there more star-studded movies that are entertaining from start to finish? This retro-hit satire tops the list. It’s a great movie with a nice mix of horror and comedy, and while it wasn’t a box office hit or an Oscar winner, it has its fans. King wasn’t one of them, and he still isn’t.
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When discussing kill bill In Entertainment Weekly, King referred to two films as “standards.”[s] “It's awful.” As he put it, My dear mother One of them was justified in his anger. The other is Mars Attack!One wonders why he felt it was so terrible.
3 Kill Bill Volume 1 (2003)
A lot of people like kill bill King was not among them at all. In fact, he disliked it so much that he wrote a review of it. Kill Bill Volume 1 Four years after the film's release, the beloved author called it a “tepid film” and a “non-issue,” and went even further.
Away from his favorite Tarantino movie.
In the words of the king:
“You’ve probably seen some good reviews about him, maybe even in this magazine. Steve says don’t believe it. Steve says you have to remember that movie critics see movies for free. They don’t have to pay for a babysitter or pay ten dollars for parking. So they tend to brag about narcissistic things like
kill bill
“Which advertises itself as Quentin Tarantino's fourth film, right?” In short, he found that instead of being entertained, audiences would be “warmed up.” [their] Our hands are in the fire of Quentin Tarantino's vanity.
2 Transformers (2007)
King once started a series of discussions about movies that audiences walked out of, asking the audience what movies they walked out of. He even gave us the one movie he walked out of: a Michael Bay movie. transformersOf course, he's not the only one who thinks the film is a soulless, somewhat noisy blockbuster.
He got out of it
His words? “I only walked out of one movie as an adult: transformersIt seems safe to assume that he saved himself the nightmarish experience of sitting through Revenge of the Fallen, Age of Extinctionand The last knight.
1 The Twilight Saga (2008 – 2012)
Twilight Saga The film may have made a ton of money, but it wasn't a critical darling. However, it put Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson on the map. And while they have mixed feelings about the film, epicIt certainly allowed them the opportunity to move on to better things, sometimes bigger or greater things.
I wasn't fond of Fifty Shades either.
Back when Dr. Sleep As the book was about to hit store shelves, King sat down with The Guardian and gave unflattering shout-outs to three popular IPs: twilight, hunger gamesand Fifty Shades of GreyOf the three, his stab wounds were the most severe. twilight“, which he called “teen porn.” In his words: “It's not really about vampires and werewolves. It's about how a girl's love can turn a bad boy into a good boy.”
