Paperhouse

[triskellian]

Paperhouse is the film adaptation of a book called Marianne Dreams, which my best friend raves about, and which I've never read. We watched the film on Tuesday night, as far as the silhouette on the horizon, and then both decided it was too scary, so we stopped it. After taking a few minutes to recover, we watched the rest, muted and on fast forward, to exorcise the scariness. It's a 15 certificate.

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[nevecat.livejournal.com]

Marianne Dreams is worth a read...I suppose it's fair to say it's scary in a nightmarish/surreal fashion rather than a 'horror' fashion.

Hrm, I think I'd find watching that interesting :)

[triskellian]

Apparently there are some fairly major changes in the scary bits between book and film. The stones don't really feature at all in the film, and the father is the main focus of scariness. And very scary he is, too.

[nevecat.livejournal.com]

*nods* - I can see why they might drop the stones - while they are menacing in the book/mind's eye, I think trying to put them into a film version would run the risk of making them comic.

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

I *believe* I've seen Paperhouse - quite a few years ago, if that's possible. If it's the one I'm thinking of, I enjoyed it very much.

I've never been scared by a movie, or indeed shocked by one (having now seen Romance, Baise-Moi *and* Irreversible). I wish I was less inured.

[triskellian]

It was made in 1989, I think, so it's perfectly possible for you to have seen it some years ago. It features a girl drawing a picture of a house with a boy in it, which she then visits in dreams.

I did think it was very good (although I found some of the actors annoying), but I'm quite easily scared by films. I might give it another go when I'm feeling braver ;-)

I'm not as easily shocked as I am scared - I don't recall ever being shocked by a film, but this is just as likely to be a function of my poor memory as anything ;-)

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

Does the ick threshold not count as being shocked?

[triskellian]

No, it's a more specialised case of being scared, I think.