Horror movies and TV shows for the fans "It" by Stephen King

Stephen King's novel "It"I was released in 1986 and almost immediately became a bestseller. The product of nearly fifteen hundred pages in two volumes for the year sold out in millions of copies. Since then, the book has received many literary awards and is still regularly features in lists as the best works of the author, and the best novels in the horror genre in general.

Almost the same success achieved and the first film adaptation of the work. two-part TV movie for many years was released in 1990, it became favorite horror film for millions of viewers.

The history of a group of friends, the opposing clown Pennivayzu first as a child, and then 27 years later when they have grown up and have almost forgotten about the tragedy, is familiar to almost everyone. But Stephen King, putting a lot of work and talent in this book showed it a few more standard, but very frightening tricks and moves. Each of them is in itself can cause fear and only gathered together, they are remembered for years to come.

Children against evil

Main character of the first part of the book are the children who create 'Losers' Club. " This is the usual quiet students who abuse seniors and not accept society. But they are the result of the fight back evil. Primarily because most adults are simply not able to believe in the threat from the creatures from another world.

Subject children confronting supernatural, very often used in horror movies. Unlike adults, who perceive life extremely rationally, children sincerely believe in monsters in the closet and monsters under the bed. Maybe sometimes they are right?

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Very strange things

• Fiction, drama, horror, thriller.
• United States, 2016.
• Length: 1 season.
• IMDb: 8,9.

Undoubted hit of the last season of the serial. The history of the children, looking for her friend, got into an otherworldly dimension. Also appears in the story the girl, on which conducted experiments governmental organization because it has supernatural powers.

In the series, there are many references to classic films from the "Alien" to "Alien" that will delight connoisseurs of fantasy and horror.

Clown Killer

One of the most memorable and frightening book character - the monster that receives the image of a clown Pennivayza. Their appearance and balloons, he beckons children and harvest their eating their pain and suffering.

It is a novel of Stephen King's "It" greatly influenced the development of koulrofobii - fear of clowns. However, there were real examples of clowns murderers. The most famous John Wayne Gacy - maniac, who spoke to the children in the form of Pogo the clown and killed more than 30 people.

Koulrofobiya very common, although it is not included in the official list of mental disorders. In this phobia have a logical explanation. Appearance of the clown often grotesque - huge eyes, mouth, shoes, white face. Behavior is unpredictable, often do not know who is hiding under the makeup. In addition, the clowns during rallies often put people in an awkward position. All this provokes a reaction opposite to think: people, and especially children, scared and remember it for a lifetime.

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American Horror Story: Freak Show

• Horror, Thriller, Drama.
• United States, 2011.
• Duration: 6 seasons.
• IMDb: 8,2.

With all the clowns in popularity in the role of villains and monsters, most films about them - full of trash, with often fairly low budget. In these paintings, they are not afraid, only disgust.

But in the fourth season of "American Horror Story", which tells about the life of circus freaks, clown with a mutilated face, kidnap and kill people, it does cause a shiver throughout the body. And when he takes off his mask, force remember the long forgotten childhood fears.

The series is published in an anthology format: the seasons are not connected to each other, so you can start playing straight from the fourth.

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Evil as a habitat

Although the monster from "It" is most often takes the form of a sinister clown is not only his appearance. It is a kind of disembodied entity that can embody the fears of people, eating their suffering. The book even has a mention that the main evil - the city in which this creature can freely dwell.

The idea of ​​an antagonist, not as a specific monster, but as a kind of habitat has repeatedly appeared in the works of Stephen King and many other works of famous masters of the horror genre, eg HP Lovecraft.

This theme dates back to ancient legends and beliefs. Almost every nation has been forbidden places, where you can not build houses. For example, in the Slavic tradition not to build housing at places where before there was a road or bath, because people believed that evil dwells there. Also, almost all the people did not build the house where once was a cemetery.

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In the Mouth of Madness

• Fiction, horror.
• USA, 1995.
• Duration: 95 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,2.

Insurance agent John Trent goes in search of the popular writer Sutter Cane. Books by this author make people lose their memory, become violent and aggressive. Her search leads him to the city, which is not available on all cards. In this town it lives on only the Sutter Kane, but all the creepy characters from his books.

Picture of John Carpenter's become a kind of tribute to the work of Stephen King and HP Lovecraft. The very image of an extremely prolific author of books, as well as the similar sounding name obviously refers to the King, as many monsters and storylines taken from Lovecraft's books.

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Radiance

• Thriller, horror.
• USA, 1980.
• Duration: 143 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,4.

Legendary film adaptation of the cult novel Stephen King. Writer Jack Torrance finds a job as caretaker of the hotel in the off season. He moved there for the winter, together with his wife and son, had an uncanny gift of radiance - a mixture of telepathy and telekinesis. But it turns out that the hotel is the concentration of ancient evil, able to show people all his fears and swoon.

Stephen King himself disliked this adaptation, considering that the director has managed too loosely with the plot. With the submission of the author in 1990 was released the eponymous TV movie, is much closer to the events of the book. However, the audience did not like it.

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in a sewer monster

The main habitats of the clown Pennivayza, but rather the spirit that takes the form, becomes a sewer under the city. Brother of the protagonist stole the clown when child a paper boat fell into the gutter. And it was in the sewer characters meet a monster and give it back.

For all sorts of villains in horror films sewerage - almost a favorite dwelling place, like a five-star hotel. The author's logic is understandable. For most people, it is quite unknown and very unpleasant place. In addition, the sewage goes under the whole city and the villain can easily move around, not being present on the streets. And yet there permanently inhabit all sorts of creatures such as rats and worms, so why not populate it, and monsters.

Fear of sewer pipes and generally occurs in people often enough, even though it is not officially recognized phobia. People are afraid of the unknown, because even a small hole draining them out in the sink is not clear where.

What to see

Alligator

• Horror.
• USA, 1980.
• Duration: 89 minutes.
• IMDb: 5,9.

A cult movie based on urban legends about alligators cubs, which are flushed down the toilet, and they grow to incredible sizes. That is exactly what happens in this story.

Small alligator is in the sewers, where for a long time fed the bodies of animals, which put on hormonal experiments. When he grows into a giant specimen Food no longer enough and the monster escapes to Chicago streets, wanting to enjoy the city's residents.

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madhouse

In the first part of the book protagonists pursuing trio of hooligans, but then the two of them were killed, and the third is in the madhouse, is recognized by all the killings that took place in the city.

Rare horror film can do without a madhouse. The place where people should be treated, and to deliver them from phobias in popular culture has long been a concentration of horror, evil, and mysticism.

People with mental illness always frightened townsfolk, as they often perceive the world a little differently. Hence the mass of legends about the supernatural and mystical events taking place within the walls of psychiatric hospitals.

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Gothic

• Thriller, horror, detective.
• USA, 2003.
• Duration: 98 minutes.
• IMDb: 5,8

A female psychiatrist who worked in the asylum, in a moment of the doctor turns into a patient. It locked up in the House, and even accused of murdering her husband, she does not remember. The heroine is trying to understand the events that led her to the conclusion in the hospital, but faced with unexplained mystical powers.

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Forgotten childhood fears

After the events of the first part of the book the children grow up, travel around to different cities and live quite a normal life. Over time, they forget about the terrible events that happened to them. It was only years later, when things are repeated again and they come together in the city, the memory of what happened back.

Suppression frightening childhood memories, their exclusion or adjustment - frequent reception, helping to cope with the trauma. Conscious forgetting fears called letatehnikoy. Although, according to many experts, this method is not effective because it does not eliminate the root cause of phobias, but only hides it.

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The Oculus

• Mystery, Horror, Thriller.
• USA 2013.
• Duration: 103 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,5.

10-year-old Tim had to kill his own father when he went mad under the influence of a mysterious mirror. Having spent many years in an asylum, he convinces himself that there was nothing supernatural about this incident was not only self-defense. However, his sister convinced of the opposite. It produces the same mirror set in the house of the camera and brings to his brother, wanting to document the event. But will they be able to resist the illusions?

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"It" in 2017

7 September, 27 years after the premiere of the first film's release there is a new adaptation of the novel "It". So far only released the first part of his childhood heroes. Already by the trailers it is obvious that the new film will be no less terrible than the classic.