Advantages: Good Voodoo story with a twist. Disadvantages: Not too scary for a horror.
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Audio Commentary with Director Iain Softley
Deleted Scenes
Behind the Locked Door - Making of The Skeleton Key
Exploring Voodoo/Hoodoo
Recipe and Ritual - Making the Perfect Gumbo
Blues in the Bayou
Kate Hudson's Ghost Story
Plantation Life
Casting the Skeleton Key
John Hurt's Story
A House Called Felicity
Gena's Love Spell
Trailers
Certification - 15
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Advantages: Some good stories Disadvantages: Some bad stories
I received Stephen King's 'Skeleton Crew' last Christmas, along with 'Different Seasons', which I have already detailed in a previous op. Skeleton Crew has to be one of the few Stephen King books I have never read and though I am not a huge fan of short story anthologies, I was looking forward to having something new to read.
Skeleton Crew did not disappoint, although I found one or two of the stories a little odd, I enjoyed most of them. The book opens with an introduction from the man himself (Stephen King that is); here he attempts to explain why he loves to write and what he gets out of it. He takes one of the stories from the book and explains how the idea came to him and he also talks about how writing short stories has become harder for him over the years. He describes a short story thus:
"A short story is a different ...
Advantages: A few stories are very good Disadvantages: Most of the stories were bad or boring or both
SKELETON CREW by STEPHEN KING - MY REVIEW
I want to start this review by letting my readers know that I'm not a huge Stephen King fan but I quite like to read his stories here and there.
I believe it's quite a relevant thing to say considering the amount of die-hard fans who love him to death and would say that anything he writes is a masterpiece and worth high praises. I usually take "best sellers" very cautiously.
I admit he's one of the few writers which I seek when going through the shelves of a charity shop. As a matter of fact I wouldn't pay more than £1-2 for his paperbacks.
I could say I'm a very moderate fan of King but for several reasons: first of all and main reason I love collection of short stories (a lot more than novels) and Mr. King has some good collections of short stories, some VERY good ones!
Also I ...