Credit: Wikipedia It's the fourth Monday of the month and so time for another Book-To-Movie review! In a Book-To-Movie (BTM), we review a work of prose fiction and its movie adaptation. This is our first BTM since our new post day began two weeks ago ! A couple years back, we did a Book-To-Movie Review of Edgar Allen Poe's short story, "The Pit and the Pendulum". The story’s movie adaptation we went over was the 1961 version directed by Roger Corman and starring Vincent Price. In this post’s BTM, we're going to review the 1991 adaptation directed by Stuart Gordon ("Re-Animator", a movie that’s also based on another famous horror writer's work). Gordon's movie adaptation of "The Pit and the Pendulum" does a good job with the setting and creature effects but lacks the horror element. I won't talk about Edgar Allen Poe's short story as much here since I do that in detail in the J anuary 2021 Book-To-Movie which you can check ou
Credit: Wikipedia /Disney Disney has not been typically known for horror movies. However, it’s made a few. When I say “horror”, I don't mean any of Disney’s comedies based on the genre or any of its Mickey mouse haunted house cartoons or monster parodies. So, Eddie Murphy's “The Haunted Mansion” and the “Hocus Pocus” movies don't count here. What I mean by “horror” is straight, live-action horror. I'm also not including today's movies made by Disney-acquired properties such as “Halloween: The Curse of Michael Meyers” which was made by Miramax, or “The Omen” which was produced by 20th Century Fox. I'm talking about horror produced by Disney Studios itself. The first Disney horror film made by Disney Studios with live actors and for the big screen was a 1980s movie called "The Watcher in the Woods". It was based on a young adult novel by Florence Engel Randall. I haven't read the novel, so I'm not going to talk about it here. If I would have rea