Triple Terror Collection (Stephen King's The Shining (1997) / It (1990) / Salem's Lot (2004))

First off, I love Steven King's Horror Fiction. The version of the Shinning with blood-drenched elevator scenes & skeletal dining room scene almost missed, then top it all off with Jack Nickelson's Jack Torrance goes crazy acting, was a classic Brian De Palma movie. The flaw of it was it had many parts straight out of the book, but other parts were much different & interpretavie. The version offered as a TV movie was much closer to it's source material. A toss up which was the better Horror movie, I prefer the TV movie presented here, simply because it's more accurate portrayl of the book. Salem's Lot as a TV movie had a better Nosferauto as Barlow, kind of unforgettable. Also Danny Glick's soundaffect hissing was truely scary. The newer version again was just as good, Rob Lowe played the central character very well & the actor who played the corrupted vampire priest certainly did a top-notch job. The female lead who also became corrupted by Barlow, the actor playing the young boy who survives it all were as convincing as the actors, like David Soul in the earlier version. I did like Donald Sutherland's Mr. Straker. better although you can't take anything away from James Mason as an actor. It this version included was good, Tim Curry (Rocky Horror, Legend, with that's what the Devil would really look like make-up & prostethics ) as Pennywise, I guess maybe. The idea of an evil shape-shifter hard to convey cinamaticaly, but it was carried well in this version, Pennywise as a giant spider at the end, not quite frighting enough. Latter on there was a newer version of It. Both having a masterful ensamble cast of the many characters at two different ages & stages of development, united for the common good in the good vs. evil Horror genre motiff ? Played out very well in both films. The forbidden scene in the book would obviously not have made it to film in either, especially due to it happening with the younger youths. That made a good heart-rendering sequence in the book, done at least a little bit tastefully in print, would be much too much to handle in action/theatrics. I found the later version just a notch scarier & again closer to it's source material, a book that almost made me cry out loud with the many forms evil can take in spiritual realities. The 3 movie set (did I review it as 6 movies comparitively) were well worth the price of admission. All classics in the Horror Movie genere......

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This collection of tv movies is great at it’s current price of under ten dollars. The quality of the movies (visually and audio) is standard quality - it is not HD so do not expect that and you will enjoy them just the same. If you are the sort of person that needs HD or higher quality video this set is not for you as these movies look as good as they did when they first aired on broadcast tv years and years ago. Some have complained that the discs are on one spindle - if that bothers you then this collection is also not for you. For me, I watched them in an order and put the discs back on the spindle in the order that I completed watching them. No big deal to me. They arrived fine for me too. Your results may vary. The Shining mini-series has commentary by Stephen King and some of the production people which is a nice bonus that I did not know about before purchase. NOTE these are NOT the theatrical versions of The Shining or IT - they are the tv versions and worth seeing in my opinion.

Perfect and came wrapped in original plastic brand new

This is a nice collection to have. If you're keen on Stephen King adaptations, you get three of them all in one place, giving you well over ten hours of creepy goodness. The collection itself is reasonably well-produced. All three miniseries are presented on six discs (three for The Shining, two for It, and one for Salem's Lot) in a single oversized case. The discs all rest on a single spindle, whereas I would have preferred each to have its own slot, but that's a tiny complaint.The films themselves are a bit of a mixed bag. All three are based on Stephen King novels and all three have been given other cinematic adaptations, so it's worth taking just a moment to comment on each of them.The Shining: Obviously we need to compare this miniseries version to Stanley Kubrick's film. If we're judging them as adaptations of King's novel, this miniseries is the best one, hands down. It's an almost entirely faithful adaptation of the novel, written by Stephen King himself (probably because he hated the Kubrick film). However, if we're judging their quality as MOVIES, the Kubrick version is a lot better. It's not that the miniseries is bad. Far from it. The performances are excellent (though you really can't beat Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance), the script is tight, and there are even a couple of moments I think the miniseries did better than the movie. But overall, we have to acknowledge that Kubrick simply made a better movie. His cinematic genius just really can't be beat. Admittedly, though, Kubrick's movie doesn't adapt the novel very well. It takes the overarching premise and then runs with it in completely different directions. So at the end of the day, most people probably want to watch both versions.It: This is probably the best film of the bunch. This is the original miniseries adaptation of It starring Tim Curry as Pennywise. While I do have some respect for the more recent two-part film adaptation of the same novel, there's something magical about this miniseries that I think makes it still the superior adaptation. Mostly that may come down to Curry's performance, but I also just think it did a better job of capturing some of the magic of It.Salem's Lot: This is undoubtedly the weakest of the bunch. This is the Rob Lowe-led miniseries from 2004. To be quite honest, the 1970s miniseries was both a more faithful adaptation of King's novel and a better film. Even despite the more advanced technology in 2004, the 70s version manages to be much scarier. To be sure, the performances by Lowe and the rest of the cast in this version are excellent, but it just feels like a hollow imitation of both the novel and the previous adaptation.Ultimately, though, despite some of the films being better than others, I think this is a worthy collection. Any Stephen King fan--indeed any horror fan--should want to have these films in his or her collection, and this makes an efficient way to get all three at once.

I have to admit, that the reason I bought this was because it was the cheapest way to get the 1997 version of "Stephen Kings - The Shining". Having said that, it was a great fringe benefit to also get "It" from 1990, as well as the 2004 version of "Salem's Lot". With the exception of "It", sometimes you can have difficulty finding newer versions of classic movies, so when they put them together like this, it's a great way to add things to your collection. The quality all all of the disc's is very good (looks even better if you play them on a Blu-ray player connected through HDMI), and it came shipped in a timely mannerism in great condition.

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