Rose Red

We get it Steve you like Shirley Jackson

Your enjoyment of this series will depend on your enjoyment of Stephen King. If you're willing to sit through dozens of familiar plot devices (telepathic autistics and a band of misfits, to name a few), you'll find that this is a well-made, suspenseful series. Possibly more visually creative than the Haunting remake, this is well worth a viewing by horror fans and Stephen King fans alike.

From master plagerizer/storyteller Stephen King comes this uncredited ripoff of "The Haunting" which bears more similarities to the Shirley Jackson story than the 1999 remake. The normally awesome Nancy Travis, horribly miscast as Liam Neeson, leads a very talented cast (minus the token autistic kid; she's awful) into a rollercoaster ride of cliche-ridden haunted house gags and made-for-tv jump scares. Thank you Stephen King for finally proving you COULD do worse than "Maximum Overdrive".

Starts off with so much potential with interesting characters but it just seems to dawdle along for too long and the scares aren't scary for most of it.

What could finish in two hours, spans more than four!

Doesn't answer enough of the questions it poses. Ultimately entertaining, but somewhat unsatisfying in the end.

you're good to go 'till the part where you see "them".

Genuinely creepy and unsettling at parts, but like a lot of Stephen King ventures, the ending is lackluster, and overall the entire thing goes on for too long.

Mostly interesting spectacle isn't as captivating as it should be due to extreme running time and familiar plot contrivances. Still, it's pretty well acted, and the house itself is amazing.

A strong first act, but the haunting itself is standard issue. Watching it in hour-long chunks allowed it to keep my interest well enough despite some very slow parts. Dr. Miller drops out distractingly, but the actor died so I can't blame them (Rose Red's curse?). Loved King's cameo.

Awesome movie! Great horror :D start of a genre of haunted house horrors ;)

Somewhat long, but ultimately suspenseful ghost horror like they are supposed to be.

a four hour mess

The definetive haunted house movie. This one has psychics, corpses, vampires, mad professers, even a Carrie-like charactor, and anything else you can think of.

S. King can't always accomplish to write good books and therefore, not all the movies based on them are good... just like this one.

This is a terrible failure, Im suprised no one in the filmcrew destroyed the whole thing before it was released to poor humanity.