Movie Review: Diary of Ellen Rimbauer
There’s something about a TV-movie, based on historical fiction, based on a book by a famous author. It’s not all good, but there’s something about it.
Diary of Ellen Rimbauer was a made-for-TV-movie that was based on the book of the same name, a book that was purported to have been based on real incidents. Well, the real incidents were concocted for Stephen King’s Rose Red, the story of a truly haunted house, which itself was made into a TV miniserie.
The DVD of Ellen Rimbauer doesn’t offer much in the way of extras. The commentary track is by writer Ridley Pearson, who also wrote the novel under a pseudonym. He provides some insights as an outsider looking into film production, but also makes comments like “I hope that came out in the script” to things that didn’t necessarily come out in the filming.
King’s creations have an allure to them, there’s that undercurrent of reality to his horror that makes it more horrific and that’s what he and Pearson were going for with their Diary creation. This translation from book to screen loses a lot of the fear that King relies on, and in that Ellen Rimbauer loses her audience.
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It is a subjective review you know, and at least I post my name on it. Or do you just go around posting the same comment on all the blogs you find?
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