Who's Afraid of Stephen King Title: Who's Afraid of Stephen King
Director: David Stewart
Year: 1999, BBC/NPS
Length: 25 min.
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John Shooter 11-04-2010 19:25 
Broken link :(
 
Gordon, USA 22-04-2006 04:34 
It's good somehow, but just the first half; liked the parts with King the most and directors of some of his movies, but the second half is awful. It's focused more on hollywood, just hollywood and hollywood all over again, and fucking pop-culture... They mention the books but make them look like they're all blood-bath tales instead of human and horror (as an emotion, not as frequent violence, as it is portrayed here [don't know if on purpose]) stories, and what kind of ending was that? It lasted
so goddamn quick. It went too long on King's old addiction to drugs, and then it ended, and they didn't even say if he stopped dealing with them or what the hell (of course a fan will know he did).

Old-time fans will enjoy it, despite of its crappiness. King-beginners, however (those who just have discovered him and want to learn more about his works), will be so dissapointed: they won't pick a book from him after watching this documentary. It's so bad structured. It shows a few of full
scenes from movies, and we fans, who've read the stories and then watched the movies, know why that character did that bad thing to the other character, or why that particular bad thing happened to the character shown, but here the final result, with the viewer who's not familiar with these works, it's like shouting "Hey!, why did you do that?!" They just put 'em all there but they don't explain what's the real point of it. They just love showing Stephen King as "THE Horror
Guy", and that's not true, he's more than just that. His stories and novels have more psychological deepness and human beauty and interaction than just a stupid popular horror story. His story-telling is not really about what's inside the closet, but about the people who own the closet. A lot of his readers recognize this, and even directors of his movies, such as Mick Garris and Frank Darabont, but evidently not the producers of this clip.
 
Martin, USA 07-10-2005 08:55 
I liked this I am glad it was in english I do remember seeing this years ago and it was good seeing this again!!
 
Anderson, Brasil 13-02-2005 04:13 
Muito Bom este documentario, Parab?ms ao site pelo pioneirismo
 
EvilDead, The Netherlands 10-01-2005 07:11 
The subtitles are dutch..Beautiful documentairy..Stephen King Will Stay The Master Of Horror
 
Laurie, USA 10-11-2004 20:20 
Hey Celso in Brazil,
I don't think that's German they are speaking. Anyway, it's a pretty cool doc, I am glad at least some of it is in English.

[edit: It's not german, but dutch]
 
anthony usa 31-10-2004 09:16 
sure woudlve been nice if i could understand what the guy was saying
 
herbert, france 22-08-2004 22:49 
french subtitle available for only this version of this short movie...

contact herbertwest 1 @ hotmail.com (without spaces, but please, don't spamm thanx
 
Shir, Israel 25-07-2004 12:50 
great doc, really is. really shows a lot of important things about the movies n him.
 
Ricardo, Argentina 19-06-2004 14:15 
Excellent documentary. I think the original title is "Shining in the dark". We see here in Argentina with spanish subtitles, in the A&E Mundo channel.
 
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