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I'm about to piss off a lot of Stephen King fans...

posted 8 years ago by Tin_ear
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...but did anyone else immediately think of movie adaptation of Stephen King's Pet Semetery seeing the creepy undead little boy at the front door? The vampire segment's ending is pretty similar too that movie too.

I bring this up only because I sort of got the same feeling after watching The Shining. I haven't read the King novel but that movie also had a lot of simliarites to earlier horror films, most notably Burnt Offerings and Hour of the Wolf. Has there ever been any real allegations about plagiarism leveled at him or am I just seeing non-existent patterns?

[–] dawnrunsamok 8 years ago

Non-existent patterns, I'm afraid. Having only seen the film it's easy to see why you may wonder...but, the novel is one of his finest, written before he'd hit his stride and became somewhat formulaic. And well worth your time, if you care to give it a read.

[–] dawnrunsamok 8 years ago

Oh, sorry...I was referring to the Shining, not Pet Cemetery.

[–] AdamBradeen11 8 years ago

No, I didn't think Pet Sematary, but I definitely thought SALEM'S LOT!

The entire sequence of the vampiric little boy saying he's cold and begging to be "let in" was cribbed for Salem's Lot and the Glick boys. There's just too much similarity to be mere coincidence.

[–] drxcreatures 8 years ago

No way. It reminded me of Salem's Lot.

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[–] jinx_malone 7 years ago

I thought of Salem's Lot. :) As for King rehashing (the polite form of saying he thieves from older writers) you only have to look at his story "Rainy Season" which is very obviously taking everything from Robert Aickman's "Ringing the Changes", in every way a superior short.

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[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

Not related to Stephen King, but to one of his contemporaries, in "The Wurdulak" when Boris Karloff comes home after five days and sits by the fire is almost exactly copied by Robert R. McCammon in his "Salem's Lot" 1981 knockoff "They Thirst." It's a great horror book, though.