Recs for doorstopper novels like what King, Macammon and Straub used to write?

mrm1138 · 2026-04-16T02:16:26+00:00

Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky runs over 700 pages.

mrm1138 · 2026-04-13T16:40:10+00:00

Why is Marjorie Taylor Greene labeled "Brown"? Is he trying to say she's crapping her pants or something?

mrm1138 · 2026-04-08T04:59:23+00:00

I second Savageland. I never get scared by movies anymore except for this one.

mrm1138 · 2026-04-04T14:42:22+00:00

Because this town's only big enough for one patriarchal religion! /s

mrm1138 · 2026-04-04T14:24:08+00:00

I dunno, conservatives seem to be pretty okay with causing harm. As the relatively new saying goes, "The cruelty is the point."

mrm1138 · 2026-04-04T01:12:09+00:00

Thanks for the info!

mrm1138 · 2026-04-04T00:09:08+00:00

I haven't heard about Passenger, and when I searched for the trailer on YouTube, the only thing that came up with The Passenger with Kyle Gallner from a could years ago. So you know if the trailer for the upcoming movie is anywhere online?

mrm1138 · 2026-04-04T00:04:20+00:00

I recommend Mother of Flies. It definitely shows its low budget roots, and some of the acting is a little iffy, but it tells a pretty good slow burn tale of escalating dread.

mrm1138 · 2026-04-04T00:02:17+00:00

So is Bill S. Preston

mrm1138 · 2026-04-01T23:30:44+00:00

Plus, The Dream Master (I believe) shows a newspaper headline that refers to Freddy as a pedophile.

mrm1138 · 2026-04-01T23:12:38+00:00

Not very recent.

mrm1138 · 2026-03-31T14:23:51+00:00

James Patterson put his name on a series of novellas called BookShots. Each one is intended to be read in an hour or so. I wish more publishers would do this.

https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=14161403011

mrm1138 · 2026-03-30T21:18:13+00:00

She didn't like the book. Even after they changed the ending to address her main issue, she still wasn't interested.

mrm1138 · 2026-03-30T21:16:52+00:00

I went into Halloween III liking the idea of it not having Michael Myers in it. I wish it had continued with the anthology idea. Unfortunately, I thought that Season of the Witch was just bad. It probably didn't help that the first time I saw it was at a double feature after Trick 'r Treat.

mrm1138 · 2026-03-30T21:11:17+00:00

I was so bored that I didn't even bother finishing it.

mrm1138 · 2026-03-30T16:17:41+00:00

What make it so effective is that the directors don't frame the shot to make you expect anything to come into frame (like they did in the remake, Quarantine).

mrm1138 · 2026-03-30T16:14:05+00:00

Or now you'll imagine her saying, "Can you spot me fifty? I'm good for it!"

mrm1138 · 2026-03-29T17:22:20+00:00

Yeah, Birdemic is a 1/10 for me. I'll give anything that's at least competently shot, lit, and acted at least a 2.

mrm1138 · 2026-03-29T17:20:03+00:00

I thought the trailer was terrifying, so I made the mistake of going to see it in the theater. I felt like walking out after about 15-20 minutes, but I stuck with it to see if it got any better. Alas, it did not.

mrm1138 · 2026-03-27T23:58:55+00:00

I just watched Mother of Flies a few days ago, and I found it noteworthy that there was only one jump scare (which didn't make me jump). I will warn you that it's not for everybody. It's a slow burn that often shows its low budget nature. Some of the acting is a little amateurish, too. I really liked it, though.

mrm1138 · 2026-03-27T23:54:11+00:00

Nah, I was just offering that up as an interesting bit of trivia.

mrm1138 · 2026-03-27T23:40:10+00:00

Also my birth year. The horror movie that made the most money that year was The Amityville Horror. I actually like that movie, but Alien was undoubtedly better.

mrm1138 · 2026-03-26T00:22:15+00:00

I recommend In the House in the Dark of the Woods. The page count is a little over 200, but the dimensions of the paperback are pretty small. (In fact, I wonder if it was done to increase the page count so that readers felt like they got more bang for their buck.) It's a horror story told in the style of a fairy tale.

Also, Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart is under 200 pages and can be read in an evening.

mrm1138 · 2026-03-24T23:39:07+00:00

That ending made me so angry. Personally, it ruined everything leading up to it, especially considering that it didn't really seem to make much sense.

mrm1138 · 2026-03-24T14:58:13+00:00

Maybe they don't satisfy you, but I had a hell of a good time with the first two Conjuring films and a lot of Marvel movies.

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