Really loved Koontz back when it seemed like he & King were pretty much the only horror authors out there at the time (or at least easily accessible). This will be lengthy, but I used to love Koontz more than I realized I guess. Other Subreddits that might interest you: Horror Award Nominees & Winners, 1975-2013

R/horrorlit's TOP 10 GREATEST NON-SUPERNATURAL HORROR NOVELS OF ALL TIME!!! R/horrorlit's TOP 10 GREATEST HORROR SHORT STORIES OF ALL TIME!!! R/horrorlit's TOP 10 GREATEST HORROR NOVELS OF ALL TIME!!!! If you would like to mask a potential spoiler, use the following format: (/spoiler)Īll times in ET (EST/EDT) unless otherwise noted. Spoiler tags are left to user discretion. Some rule violations may result in a temporary or permanent ban on the first strike. We do ask that you help us keep a high level of discourse by avoiding image-only posts, blog spam, surveys, plugging your own unpublished or self-published fiction, and linking to fundraisers or items for sale. No book is off-limits since horror is subjective. The plot line is natually different as the setup and characters are different and also the book is quite long and detailed and a film will probably have to chop things down.Here is your place to share your love or loathing for horror lit, but remember to be respectful.Ībusive comments and posts will get you banned but having a dissenting opinion is acceptable. The NSA are also more villanous than in the book where they are just doing their job.

The experiments are changed to be part of a team rather than independant subjects. The female lead is a beautiful scientist rather than a shy retreating young woman. This changes the actual characters to a haunted police officer rather than a haunted ex special force soldier. This is nothing like the book and does not try to be. The characters are more similar to the book although the middle of the plot is very different. The female protagonist is called in as a psychologist rather than being someone whom the dog runs to protect and the owner follows and then befriends.Īlso the plot line is heavily simplified and in the process they again actually manage to make this a poor film. It adjust the protagonist back to an ex forces adult rather than a child which matches the book etc (although he is an ex marine rather than ex Delta). This is not really a sequel, more of a remake.

The characters are changed and drastically different along with the plot line which is simplified and has additional villains introduced which effectively change pretty much everything. The original film hacked the book to pieces, changed the main protagonist etc and drastically changed the plot and, in the process, created a film which was simply not very good.

The Watchers is a great book - I read it many years ago and I still remember it well.

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