I have never watched one of his movies that scared me, repulsed yes. The guy is creepier than any character he ever created so his fiction cant be worse than his own reality. He's a fucking joke and the best part of him ended up as a brown stain. He's afraid of a cold how scary can he be in real life? A raging creampuff.
There is some hits and misses for sure. His politics are for shit but that comes with the territory of being a self righteous shit bag given a microphone.
But his early books are pretty amazing and some of his movies stand the test of time. Firestarter, Christine, Shawshank Redemption, The Dead Zone, Stand By Me, Misery, Carrie, The Shining (Jack Nicholson version), Dolores Claiborne, The Green Mile, The Mist, and even Doctor Sleep (the Director's Edition not the shit for theaters version) are excellent.
His early books are wild rides for sure just like a coked up alcoholic buzzing on drugs would be. This was before he became sober and decided that interjecting his politics opinion on everyone came to be.
I loved his early books and still do. Anything that can take me on that wild trip of a ride is awesome. Doesn't mean I have to like the writer or agree with him. I just recognize what many others already have. His works were groundbreaking and in a time when almost no horror writers were being publicized he helped break that ice. Without him there would be no Clive Barker stories and honestly that would be a shame.
I have never watched one of his movies that scared me, repulsed yes. The guy is creepier than any character he ever created so his fiction cant be worse than his own reality. He's a fucking joke and the best part of him ended up as a brown stain. He's afraid of a cold how scary can he be in real life? A raging creampuff.
There is some hits and misses for sure. His politics are for shit but that comes with the territory of being a self righteous shit bag given a microphone.
But his early books are pretty amazing and some of his movies stand the test of time. Firestarter, Christine, Shawshank Redemption, The Dead Zone, Stand By Me, Misery, Carrie, The Shining (Jack Nicholson version), Dolores Claiborne, The Green Mile, The Mist, and even Doctor Sleep (the Director's Edition not the shit for theaters version) are excellent.
His early books are wild rides for sure just like a coked up alcoholic buzzing on drugs would be. This was before he became sober and decided that interjecting his politics opinion on everyone came to be.
I loved his early books and still do. Anything that can take me on that wild trip of a ride is awesome. Doesn't mean I have to like the writer or agree with him. I just recognize what many others already have. His works were groundbreaking and in a time when almost no horror writers were being publicized he helped break that ice. Without him there would be no Clive Barker stories and honestly that would be a shame.