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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Jul 24, 2022 2:57:50 GMT
Bumped one of the Stephen King threads asking a similar question, but was wondering about works by other horror authors that you'd like to see adapted...
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Post by Martin Stett on Jul 24, 2022 3:18:56 GMT
Something interesting could be made of Agatha Christie's The Dressmaker's Doll. I haven't read it for around 15-17 years, so this may be a tad inaccurate: the idea of the short story is that a raggedy old doll is found in a corner of a dressmaker's workshop (IIRC, it's basically a repurposed attic), and nobody can remember having seen it before. As time goes on, the dressmakers give it more attention and make it a sort of unofficial mascot of the workplace... until it begins moving into more prominent positions in the room, such as the seats of the workers or at a workbench, that sort of thing. Everybody claims that they aren't moving the doll, but someone is lying. It's a stupid prank, but the girls are getting scared, believing that the place is haunted. The more brazen the doll's actions become, the more adamant everyone is that they are not moving the doll...
It is an early work of Christie's that never completely comes together (I do like her ending in theory, but the reveal is so abrupt that it feels unfinished), but the concept would make for a great movie. A creepy, closed space movie utilizing one primary location and a small cast of Britain's finest actresses could make for something special.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 24, 2022 10:24:33 GMT
* Thomas Ligotti - all of his work - if you know, then you know.......if you don't then we probably know that you don't like Argento's best work either so I'll be spending Halloween somewhere else tbh........pffft. * Poe's - Hop Frog - one of his very short best stories and one of the great celebrations of the oppressed / the "other(s)" in this genre  |
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Post by stephen on Jul 24, 2022 15:53:42 GMT
One of my dream projects has been to adapt Clive Barker's The Scarlet Gospels, except to set it in the late 1930s, and to cast Gillian Anderson as Pinhead and Jonathan Majors as Harry D'Amour.
Barker's Weaveworld and Imajica are also very ripe for long-form adaptations. His best works actually remain unadapted, which is really a shame.
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