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Even More Required Reading

I was going to post this over in Feral's thread, but intelligent conversation was happening, and I didn't want to kill it.

By the way, I am the only person under the age of 25 who read this book before seeing the movie. I just read the book last week, and believer it or not had never seen the movie until a few days ago.

Here you are:

"Chris plunged down the hall and burst into the bedroom, gasped, stood rooted in paralyzing shock as the rappings boomed massively, shivering through the walls; as Karl lay unconscious on the floor near the bureau; as Regan, her legs propped up and spread wide on a bed that was violently bouncing and shaking, clutched the bone-white crucifix in raw-knuckled hands, the bone-white crucifix poised at her vagina, the bone-white crucifix she stared at with terror, eyes bulging in a face that was bloodied from the nose, the nasogastric tubing ripped out.
“Oh please! Oh, no, please!” she was shrieking as her hands brought the crucifix closer; as she seemed to be straining to push it away.
“You’ll do as I tell you, filth! You’ll do it!”
The threatening bellow, the words, came from Regan, her voice coarse and guttural, bristling with venom, while in an instantaneous flash her expression and features were hideously transmuted into those of the feral, demonic personality that had appeared in the course of hypnosis. And now faces and voices as Chris watched stunned, interchanged with rapidity.
“No!”
“You’ll do it!”
“Please!”
“You will, you bitch, or I’ll kill you!”
“Please!”
“Yes, you’re going to let Jesus fuck you, fuck you, f--“
Regan now, eyes wide and staring, flinching from the rush of some hideous finality, mouth agape shrieking at the dread of some ending. Then abruptly the demonic face once more possessed her, now filled her, the room choking suddenly with a stench in the nostrils, with an icy cold that seeped from the walls as the rappings ended and Regan’s piercing cry of terror turned to a guttural, yelping laugh of malevolent spite and rage triumphant while she thrust down the crucifix into her vagina and began to masturbate ferociously, roaring in that deep, coarse, deafening voice, “Now you’re mine, now you’re mine, you stinking cow! You bitch! Let Jesus fuck you, fuck you!”
Chris stood rooted to the ground in horror, frozen, her hands pressed tight against her cheeks as again the demonic, loud laugh cackled joyously, as Regan’s vagina gushed blood onto sheets with her hymen, the tissues ripped. Abruptly, with a shriek clawing raw from her throat, Chris rushed at the bed, grasped blindly at the crucifix, was still screaming as Regan flared up at her in fury, features contorted infernally, reaching out a hand, clutching Chris’s hair, and yanked her head down, pressing her face hard against her vagina, smearing it with blood while she frantically undulated her pelvis.
“Aahhh, little pig mother!” Regan crooned with a guttural, rasping, throaty eroticism. “Lick me, lick me, lick me! Aahhhhh!” Then the hand that was holding Chris’s head down jerked it upward while the other arm smashed her a blow across the chest that sent Chris reeling across the room and crashing to a wall with stunning force while Regan laughed with bellowing spite.
Chris crumpled to the floor in a daze of horror, in a swirling of images, sounds in the room, as her vision spun madly, blurring, unfocused, her ears ringing loud with chaotic distortions as she tried to raise herself, was too weak, faltered, then looked toward the still blurred bed, toward Regan with her back to her, thrusting the crucifix gently and sensually into her vagina, then out, then in, with that deep, bass voice crooning, “Ahh, there’s my sow, yes, my sweet honey piglet, my piglet, my—“
The words were cut off as Chris started crawling painfully toward the bed with her face, smeared with blood, with here eyes still unfocused, limbs aching, past Karl. Then she cringed, shrinking back in incredulous terror as she thought she saw hazily, in a swimming fog, her daughter’s head turning slowly around on a motionless torso, rotating monstrously, inexorably, until at last it seemed facing backward."

---The Exorcist
William Peter Blatty

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As usual, the author creates a more horrific visual than the movie, in my opinion.
It's like Steven King, the writing is so much more intense than the attempt to create it on screen.
This could be a totally different direction that you were going, Paint but that is what came to mind when I read your excerpt.

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I was just doing it as a counterpoint to Feral. He gives us Camus, I give us an 11 year old masturbating with a crucifix.

Still, I agree with you. But I will say this. When I saw that they actually had the BALLS to represent that passage on the screen, my jaw fucking dropped. Holy Christ! I mean, this is Hollywood! And they showed the girl masturbating with a crucifix and shoving her mother's face into her crotch. Pure balls.

In any case, yeah, the book was of course better than the movie. It always is. But that movie is also VERY true to the book. Probably because the director and executive producers had enough brains to letter the author write the adaptation and even to produce it, which is how it should ALWAYS be in my estimation.

As for Steven King, I have to admit The Stand is one of my all-time favorite books. Sometimes he gets a bit too pulpy for me though, unneccessary sex storylines and shit like that. But he is still cool most of the time.

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Oh, and Kubrick's version of The Shining was better than both the book and the Steven King directed piece of shit version. The Shining the movie wasn't quite as deep as the book, but look at it this way. Kubrick's adaptation of an above average horror novel yeilded, in my opinion, the best horror film of all time. You can certainly not say that the Shining is the best horror novel of all time, although it is very good. In fact, you can't even say it is the best horror novel to be adapted into a movie. The Exorcist is better than the Shining, bookwise. But Kubrick's Shining was a fucking masterpiece.

Those twin little girls still freak the shit out of me to this day.

"Redrum!"

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I like the original "The Shining" movie...it scares the crap outta me still to this day.

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I loved King's early days but agree with the fill thing.
Jack Nicholsen spooked the shit out of me. He is my fucking hero.

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“Aahhh, little pig mother!” Regan crooned with a guttural, rasping, throaty eroticism. “Lick me, lick me, lick me! Aahhhhh!”

that is how i pick up chicks at the denny's...

"I was just doing it as a counterpoint to Feral. He gives us Camus, I give us an 11 year old masturbating with a crucifix." - Paint.

And for that reason I continue coming back. Everything should be represented. I do not fear some topics, as everything is within all of our potential jurisdiction. Thank you for posting this paint, been a while since last i saw that in writing.

Fucking awesome to hear about fucking jesus.

Also, to add to wonderaz's topic, writen work always supercedes visual because it leaves it up to the readers imagination. That is why Hitchcock walked all over us with his horror. Evil had no face other than the imagined visage that we individualy cater to perpetuate our fears.

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Originally posted by Paint CHiPs:
Oh, and Kubrick's version of The Shining was better than both the book and the Steven King directed piece of shit version. The Shining the movie wasn't quite as deep as the book, but look at it this way. Kubrick's adaptation of an above average horror novel yeilded, in my opinion, the best horror film of all time. You can certainly not say that the Shining is the best horror novel of all time, although it is very good. In fact, you can't even say it is the best horror novel to be adapted into a movie. The Exorcist is better than the Shining, bookwise. But Kubrick's Shining was a fucking masterpiece.

Those twin little girls still freak the shit out of me to this day.

"Redrum!"

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Paint et.al.,

Kubrick's film version of "The Shining" is a work of true genius. But do the twins ever say "Redrum"?

Here's how I remember the scene. Danny rides his Big Wheel. The audio miking is incredible. Carpet, floor, tile, carpet--each excruciatingly amplified and resonating with that point of your being that hasn't ridden a Big Wheel in 20 years, much less indoors.

It's been a while since I saw the film, but I only remember the twins stating, "Come and play with us.... For ever." Then, a seemingly endless stream of blood starts to flow towards the viewer/Danny.

The tv version from a few years ago was a travesty.

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No, the twins never say redrum. All I meant is that the twins freak my shit out, and also the little boy saying "redrum!" freaks my shit out as well.

Great fucking movie.

And yeah, the TV movie starring the guy from WINGS was indeed a travesty.

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Yeah, the twins are locked in that part of my brain that causes me to subtly shake in horror.

The two are dressed in matching white Victorian cotton dresses. Virtually expressionless, they beckon Danny, "Come and play with us... forever."

That movie is fucking awesome. I really liked "Eyes Wide Shut ," too. Fuck the critics.

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speaking of Stephen King, he took a break from the horror stories about 15 years ago and wrote a book called 'The Gunslinger', the first of 'The Dark Tower' series. Definately the absolut best book i have ever picked up. Then came 'The Drawing of the Three' which I just cant describe as anything but pure addiction. There have been 2 other books in the series released, one is 'The Wastelands', which i read half of, and supposedly a 5th in writing. If i had some damned time to read id have read em all. The series is surprisingly unknown, i guess because he is famous for being a horror author and not a fantasy author, even though its by far his best work.

Anyways, thats my required reading for the day. Have a report on my desk tomorrow morning.

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Dingle, Remind me, what's Stephen King's nom de plume? You know, the name he occasionally worked under during the mid-80s?

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Richard Bachman, during which he wrote 'Thinner'. He did it to see how an unknown author would do and was unsuccessful until a reporter discovered Richard Bachman was really Stephen King, Thinner then became a best seller and it inspired him to write 'The Dark Half'

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Steven King wrote a book of short storys but I can't remember what it was called.The lawnmower man was in there but it had nothing to do with the movie.I think it was night shift or something.Good book.H.P.Lovecraft wrote some very good stuff.Again,a lot of short storys but he was way ahead of his time.His writing was very expressive.Almost overkill,but always very thoughtful.(to me,anyway)Another one I quite enjoyed was Clark Ashton Smith,though I read only one of his books.Short stories again.

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Did anyone read Nightmares and Dreamscapes by King? That book was the fucking best..the story about the chattering teeth and the story about rock and roll heaven both kicked ass. I also liked Half Past Midnight, mainly because I thought The Langoliers was awesome...now there's some required reading material for you.

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I think alcoholfiend should track down S. King for us to do a guest appearance on Asylum and #WotA.

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The short story book was the Skeleton Crew. I read it about 10 years ago and that story 'The Myst' is still stuck in my head like i read it yesterday.

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Stephen King is one of my favorite authors. Other good ones are Dean Koontz and John Saul. I love being scared

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I ran into Steven King just the other day.

He said "ouch".

In any case, I did read the Gunslinger a LONG time ago. Don't remember much of it, except that it was cool. I don't think I even finished it.

And HP Lovecraft is a goddamned genius. All the Evil Dead shit, as well as countless other great horror flicks (Re-Animator anyone?) are based on his shit.

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Nice paint!!

I've read the Gunslinger series....not as good as pure horror.

I forgot about Lovecraft!

Now I have to go look through all of my book shelves and re-read some of it.



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