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Hated the book! Hated King's recent film based on his book! But this movie is amazing. It has so many great scenes- The "all work and no play" typing scene, Danny's big wheel rolling through the halls scenes, the "here's Johnny" scene, Jack's bad dream scene, the "lady" in the room scene, the "redrum" scene- and plenty more. The skills of Kubrick along with 2 amazing performances by Nicholson and Duvall (now this woman knows how to convey fear to an audience) make this an amazingly scary film. No moving bushes, no hero dad, no trying to pack complex relationship info into a 90 minute film, no contrived excuses for a character's motivations, -just great scenes- each one meant to effect the audience more than the one before. Mr. Kubrick took a corny, overwrought vehicle and turned it into a masterpiece.

A few real actors and a few cute ladies are the only highlights to this movie, except that the resolution to the "mystery" (I think Scooby Doo could have solved this one) at least made sense this time, even if it was absurd. There are a few good, though unintentional, laughs. The fact that you don't need to pay attention to this movie (it's geared toward the brainless), along with the "scaryness" of it, make it a great first date movie, otherwise it's a waste of money.

The motives were lame and the bloodshed senseless. Two obvious idiots running around unnoticed in bizarre getups as if they had some sort of paranormal ability, killing at will, and never getting seen or caught, who, in the end, not only have to explain the whole plot to the last victim (actually more cliche than cliche -it requires a whole new word) but stab each other (this is their "alibi") before killing her!!!! C'mon, even my six year old was scared until the end when she pronounced the whole thing "stupid". I realize this movie was geared toward teenagers struggling with attention deficit disorder or a crack addiction, but even they must have some standards. This movie is on a par in the horror genre that the "Smokey and the Bandit" movies are in the comedy genre.

Scream 2 was funny enough to be almost enjoyable. Plus, they hired a couple of professional actors.