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Tall grass is scarier than supernatural rocks
Andulamb - wrote on 08/26/2022
Stephen King tends to ruin his stories by going overboard with supernatural elements. For example, compare the film version of The Shining to King's novel; the film wisely eliminates all the ridiculousness of the hedge maze and the boiler. Then there's It, with its ridiculous ending involving a giant alien spider. I strongly suspect that King comes up with his stories by spinning a large wheel of plot elements: first spin, creepy clown; second spin, sewer; third spin, giant alien spider. Viola! Anyway, In the Tall Grass suffers from the same sort of unnecessary supernatural nonsense. The first third or half of the movie is great: people get lured into a huge field of tall grass from which they can't escape. As a kid, I walked a few rows into a cornfield, went a distance down one row, …
