The previews make it out to be a horror flick (trust me, most of my friends refused to go see it even after I told them I'd read the book and it was, in fact, a thriller), but Scorsese's latest is obviously a thriller. What do you think of this blatant manipulation? And WHY is it happening?
Group Facts
On record, the top five highest grossing horror films are Jaws, The Exorcist, The Sixth Sense, The Amityville Horror and Alien
Stephen King hated Stanley Kubrick's choice of Jack Nicholson for the role of Jack Torrance in The Shining (1980) and reportedly tried to talk him out of it during casting. King is quoted as saying The Shining is the only adaptation of one of his novels he remembers hating.
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