I honestly didn't mind the "Christine" movie's take on the titular car being, shall we say, bad to the bone. It certainly wasn't out of place in a Stephen King milieu, where people, creatures, or objects are often described as Just Plain Evil. My only problem with the movie was the lack of certain set-pieces from the book, although that may have been driven by budget rather than any deliberate choice.
It sounds like they went in the completely opposite direction with "The Monkey"; the original story was fairly stripped-down and had a reasonably low body-count. The chills came from the dread of not knowing when or where the Monkey would turn up after any attempt to get rid of it, and of the protagonist's desperation to protect his son. (I sure as hell will see the Oz Perkins version, though.)
The monkey segment in Merlin's Shop is a re-cut version of the 1984 film "The Devil's Gift".
I could have sworn I read that King took some kind of legal action over the unauthorized adaptation but I can't find any reference for that, so either I'm misremembering or it was one of those urban legends that's since been debunked.
I honestly didn't mind the "Christine" movie's take on the titular car being, shall we say, bad to the bone. It certainly wasn't out of place in a Stephen King milieu, where people, creatures, or objects are often described as Just Plain Evil. My only problem with the movie was the lack of certain set-pieces from the book, although that may have been driven by budget rather than any deliberate choice.
It sounds like they went in the completely opposite direction with "The Monkey"; the original story was fairly stripped-down and had a reasonably low body-count. The chills came from the dread of not knowing when or where the Monkey would turn up after any attempt to get rid of it, and of the protagonist's desperation to protect his son. (I sure as hell will see the Oz Perkins version, though.)
Rock n' Roll Martian - from another toy monkey-related film Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders (and Nightcrawlers) ;)
The monkey segment in Merlin's Shop is a re-cut version of the 1984 film "The Devil's Gift".
I could have sworn I read that King took some kind of legal action over the unauthorized adaptation but I can't find any reference for that, so either I'm misremembering or it was one of those urban legends that's since been debunked.
This is one of the movies I wanted to see coming out in late February!