Review of Misery (1990) by Gavin C — 31 Oct 2011
HAPPY HALLOWEEN, EVERYBODY! This would be my last October review before this month ends. So, I'll be reviewing Stephen King's timeless horror masterpiece, "Misery".
Stephen King movies are awesome. Packed with dark atmospheres, chilling story, and scary characters, they managed to become cinema's greatest horror achievements (except the over-the-top TV adaptations of the rest of his novels) and one of them is "Misery".
Here's how the plot goes. It's about an author named Paul Sheldon, who gets in a car crash while heading home from Colorado after having completed his latest book. He gets injured at first, but is rescued and nursed back to health by Annie Wilkes, a number one fan of Paul's heroine Misery Chastaine, at her house where she becomes nice to him at first, but Paul realizes that he's crippled and drugged from her mercy when she forces him to write a novel about Misery. He then finds out that she's a murderer and has to find a way to escape.
Everything about this movie is excellent. If I was to meet Rob Reiner and congratulate him for his amazing achievement at directing this masterpiece, I'd give it a solid A+. Kathy Bates and James Caan did a fantastic job with their performances and the story took its audiences seriously with its chills. The music score from Marc Shaiman and the sets were considered as a piece of brilliance.
Misery is Rob Reiner's timeless masterpiece of horror proportions, but not only that. It's Stephen King's greatest movie adaptation of the past twenty (now twenty-one) years. If you want to see an epic horror film, go see this one. It's that good.
10/10.
This review of Misery (1990) was written by Gavin C on 31 Oct 2011.
Misery has generally received very positive reviews.
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