A masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (26 May 2005)

One of the greatest horror movies of all time. I saw the movie first and years later read the book. The deviations from the book story actually make for a better plot than the original. Stephen King, as usual writes stories that scare the daylights out of you. As if that were not enough, the casting of Jack Nicholson in the lead role is inspired. Nicholson is so convincing in his role that I wondered whether or not he was really off his rocker. I saw the movie in Germany, in German and I've seen it in English and they translated it true to the original script. On my way home after the movie, I walked through a church cemetery, which was on the way to my apartment. Big mistake! I was convinced that Nicholson was waiting behind some headstone, complete with fire ax, waiting to kill me. No film has ever scared me more.