*MISERY* FIRST TIME WATCHING MOVIE REACTION

[@jenmurrayxo]

Did Stephen King like this adaptation? THE SHINING: kzbin.info/www/bejne/barWZ2qfjJWMlbM HORROR Reactions: kzbin.info/aero/PLQHhQlj8i5dqAo_xUPpp6Vl8928UXIwua&si=loq5JwfSk2RW7Fmw

[@lou6454]

I think he said it was in his top ten . If you liked Kathy Bates in this you'll probably like her in Dolores Claiborne , another King adaptation.

[@clarencewalker3925]

Yes, he did. He also said that this movie, and the novel, was based on an incident that happened to him and his family.

[@paddyola1]

Hi Jen, I think you should try Society from 1989. paranoia gorefest

[@johncampbell756]

Stephen King was impressed so much by Kathy Bates that he wrote Delores Clairborne for her to play the part. The old couple were not in the novel. She also used an axe, not a sledgehammer. Read The Eyes of the Dragon. It is fantasy, not horror. Stephen King and his family came home to find a fan IN their house. A totally non-violent and nice person, but still frightening to find them there.

[@geraldmcboingboing7401]

The Haunting (1963) is really good!!! It was directed by Robert Wise, who also brought you The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), The Sound of Music (1965), West Side Story (1961), Star Trek, the Motion Picture (1979) and lots of others. Great reaction, Jen!!!!

[@EliCross]

Stephen King really liked this movie. He loved Kathy Bates' performance so much, he wrote Dolores Claiborne just for her.

[@xzonia1]

Dolores Claiborne is another great movie! Kathy really can act. I also love Fried Green Tomatoes, but that's a pretty happy movie compared to these two. Lol :)

[@konowd]

Perfect casting. She and Caan made the perfect couple from hell

[@treetopjones737]

@@xzonia1 If you're not the menu speciall.

[@xzonia1]

@@treetopjones737 Well, true! I just meant relatively speaking. :) Lol

[@luisarturoorduna2098]

Was not Dolores clairborne a black woman in the book?

[@spddracer]

Annie Wilkes saying, "God I Love You." is the most terrifying moment ever put to film.

[@RichardM1366]

It is a true suspense masterpiece. Kathy Bates earned her Oscar. She gave the performance of a lifetime. The character of Annie Wilkes is complex yet she nailed it! The book was a lot more graphic. This one is 5 out of 5 stars!

[@treetopjones737]

Polite way of saying BATSHIT.

[@tehdesp]

The "hobbling" scene, for example, went down quite differently. In the book she chopped off his foot with an axe, then cauterized it with a blowtorch.

[@tehdesp]

@@Progger11 I don't really have preference, I think they work with their respective mediums. The novel method is a little...much to depict on film, but it's still pretty dialed-back compared to other books I've read, like American Psycho.

[@YolandaAnneBrown95726]

@@tehdesp Then later cut off his thumb and stuck it on a birthday cake.

[@noneya3635]

I have never laughed so much at the phrase “stab her in the eye, stab her in the face.” This is one of my most quoted King films of all times, Kathy Bates was a perfect choice for Annie.

[@trinaq]

Kathy Bates absolutely deserved her Oscar, which is the only Stephen King adaptation to receive the coveted statue. However, James Caan was Terrific as Paul, and he wasn't even nominated for his own work.

[@w1975b]

Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie were nominated for Carrie. Not a win, but close.

[@emwa3600]

James Caan's delivery of that final line, "That's very sweet of you" - no Oscar winner ever delivered any line better.

[@hgman3920]

For me, Misery is one of the most scary films ever made, mainly because the entire premise is entirely possible. In the back of our minds, we know that supernatural horrors, like The Shining, are not real, but this is something which could actually happen to any of us. And that's what makes it so horrifying.

[@DavidGBrooks]

Great movie, Kathy Bates is terrifying in it, great acting from her and James Caan

[@CarolinaCharles777]

I concur. She's the best! 🤘

[@ButteredToast32]

The hobbling punishment has to be one of the most unsettling scenes in horror film history.

[@Gravydog316]

in the book, she chops his foot off with an axe this is worse

[@Dontuween]

Hello Jen. We are your number 1 fans! 😄 This was truly terrifying and Kathy Bates desirably earned her Academy Award!

[@xzonia1]

I once told a guy online (very minor celebrity) several years ago that I liked his work and was a fan, that I'd read all his blog posts and watched the handful of videos he'd posted, and I emailed him a few times about some of his work at the public email address he'd given out. Then he abruptly disappeared from the Internet for 6 months. My Twitter notifications told me when he posted again, and I liked his comment and said hey welcome back or something like that. He then posted that he had a stalker, deleted every post he'd ever made on Twitter, and left the Internet again and hasn't returned (as far as I know). My guess is I'm the person he felt was stalking him. I wish I was making this up, but nope. I can only imagine he'd watched this movie for the first time right before I left my fateful comment of being a fan, and it freaked him out. People have told me I bear a slight resemblance to Kathy Bates, and I had a profile pic on Twitter up back then. The whole thing was pretty weird. I still feel bad at the thought I'm the one who freaked him out. The timing of it all makes me conclude it must have been me (he didn't get many people commenting on his posts to begin with). So now I avoid telling people I'm a fan of theirs. I just say I like them or whatever seems more mild. Lol. Live and learn. X)

[@billherman7294]

​@@xzonia1Cool story sister, you should write a book.

[@mayorjimmy]

This comment right here officer.

[@Niala8419]

I came here for these comments 😂😂😂. Sorry Jen 🤣.

[@xzonia1]

@@mayorjimmy 🤣

[@davidmeir9348]

Steven King liked this adaptation so much that he wrote the psychological drama Dolores Clairborne (written in 1992) with Kathy Bates in mind if ever there was an adaptation which there was in 1995 and Bates actually played the main character. While it's not like Misery and less well known, she does gives an outstanding performance in it too. Stephen King never was in a violent stalker scenario, he wrote the book when he was trying to kick his cocaine addiction and Annie Wilkes was supposed to represent the drug that he felt he had become prisonner of. Book Annie is quite different from the film. In it, she's a psycho from the get go and it's made clear she's a serial killer. The hobbling scene is also way more graphic, featuring an axe and a blowtorch. Bates made a more layered version of Annie with moments she was almost child like and moments of violent mood swings. Her portrayal absolutely works for the film and you have to give credit to James Caan who also did an outstanding work. I was also sad for Buster but the character (created for the movie) was great and if there had been a movie about him and his wife bantering while solving crimes, I totally would have signed up for it.

[@m4tth3w967]

10:05 "he should hobble to the window and try to leave now!" 😂😅 the unintentional foreshadowing is too good

[@conureron3792]

Jen thinks she would have trouble writing, but she has natural instincts!

[@CarolinaCharles777]

Now THIS is my kind of "horror". More of a Hitchcock-style thriller! Thanks for reacting to it!

[@nathanwilson4902]

Annie: I hope you like it. Paul: It looks wonderful, and so do you. Jen: Stab her in the face.

[@conureron3792]

Lmao

[@treetopjones737]

You may not want to approach Jen in person. :D

[@patsk8872]

@@treetopjones737 I thought that said "in prison" and it would make even more sense lol

[@PatrickWagz]

Jen: "Poison her. Poison her!! *Poison her!!!!* Go, go, go. Stir it in!"

[@Nocturnal-nonsense]

" Stab her in the face! " To be honest, that was a fair appraisal of the situation Jen 😅 The fact that this could all happen is what makes it all so scary. This was your best reaction, yet!

[@crose7412]

25:30 "He's just reading friggin' romance novels"; Jen's irritation here is hilarious!

[@lanzknecht8599]

Fun facts: the movie was shot chronologically to build up the tension between Kathy Bates and James Caan. Obviously it worked pretty well! The director Rob Reiner has a cameo as the helicopter pilot.

[@OldRod99]

Kathy Bates was absolutely amazing in this. Such a great movie!

[@herbertkeithmiller]

No monsters, no vampires, no haunted mansion, just a psychopathic lady enacting her will. Oh and a sledgehammer. This is scary because it could actually happen.

[@YolandaAnneBrown95726]

King was so impressed with Bates performance that he wrote "Dolores Clairborne" in the hopes that she would star in it. It's even dedicated to her. And she does an incredible performance in that one, too.

[@karlmortoniv2951]

I just scanned the comments quickly and it doesn't look like anyone else has gone into the background of the hobbling thing yet, so I'm gonna. This is one of my favorite behind-the-scenes stories so I tell everyone about it at the drop of a hat. 😃 In the book King wrote that she chopped off Paul's feet with an axe. I mean, holy fucking SHIT, right? William Goldman, the screenwriter (look him up, you've seen his stuff), LOVED that scene and relished every page building up to it when he was adapting the book. He could NOT WAIT to sit in a cinema and see an audience react to the hero getting his feet hacked off. It was going to change the face of movies, he thought, as far as what can happen to a main character. Killing off the lead in "Psycho"? Fuck off, they were gonna chop the hero's FEET off!! MUAHAHAHAHAAA!!!! So the writing process went on, everyone loved what Goldman was doing, but then one by one everyone involved with the movie started having second thoughts about the axe thing. The scene was always a bit of a hurdle, especially when trying to cast the part James Caan played - it was one of those parts that every male lead in Hollywood had passed on, partly because of the crippling the character undergoes. Was it too much? The whole point is to set up an audience to hate Annie but they didn't want to take it too far and send people sprinting out of the cinemas, did they? Finally Rob Reiner, the director, told Goldman that they were gonna do what you see in the film with the sledgehammer as opposed to the axe. The specifics aren't as important as the effect, everyone concluded, and the result would still be a fucking harrowing scene, Reiner and everyone else thought. King was chill about this, but Goldman was furious. They were DESTROYING the movie, he thought, and Goldman become a bit of a bastard about the whole thing until the first screening in front of a real audience. Goldman figured everyone in the early crowds who knew the book would cry foul when dude's feet were not chopped off with a fucking axe and they would lose the audience forever. During that screening Goldman could sense those in the crowd who knew what was coming getting nervous as The Scene got closer. He figured they were dead, because they had chickened out, and he clenched himself waiting for the instant rejection to happen. But much to his surprise, the audience's reaction to the sledgehammer thing was exactly what it needed to be. Looking back, the nervousness he sensed was an audience not wanting to see what King had written and the movie-goer's glee he experienced in that crowded cinema demonstrated that Rob Reiner and everyone else was right. King, not being a dumb guy, has never said he had any problem with the change, I don't think, and every reaction I've ever seen proves that what's in the movie is plenty strong enough.

[@Momsbasement354]

When this came out it was xmas time. My family was at my aunts house and I had one chapter left to go reading the book. A preview came on the tv. I shouted NO! And literally dived over the living room coffee table, did a roll and slammed the tv off button! My family was in shock and looked at me like I had a couple screws loose. Lol I explained that I was almost done with the book and didn’t want any spoilers. The only big differences between the book and the movie were that Annie cut his thumb off when an electric knife and chopped one his feet off with an axe. She ran over the sheriff with a riding lawnmower and they found her dead after the fight with Paul in the the. Garage with one hand on a chainsaw. I love your reactions! I guess you could say that I’m your number one fan. Lolol

[@snbks4ever]

lmao "st*b her in the face" .. loved this reaction Jen. I remember seeing Misery my senior year of highschool and had no idea about the movie before hand and what a movie!!! What a cast too.

[@frankromero5782]

I’ve been a follower of Jen long enough to be somewhat surprised by sweet and gentle Jen saying “STAB HER IN THE EYE WITH THE BOBBIE PIN!!!”. Ah, the passage of time.

[@PatrickWagz]

Jen: "Poison her. Poison her!! *Poison her!!!!"*

[@David19749]

She's crazy as a box of frogs! This is an intense movie. Great reaction Jen.

[@mikeljenks]

The Green Mile was originally written as a serialized novel being released in 4 parts each about a month apart. It’s also a very accurate movie adaptation.

[@gswithen]

6 parts.

[@algomaone121]

Jen: “Does Stephen King have any serial characters that repeat from novel to novel?” Roland Deschain: “Hold my Ale and say thankee.”

[@youtubepaidformydivorce]

thankee, sai

[@citpeks2000]

"Now he's hustling. Frikkin' no hustling before." I'm dyin!

[@stpetie7686]

When Jen said, "Now stab her in the face!" I had to pause the video 'til I stopped laughing. That one got me by surprise.

[@OldRod99]

"Stab her in the eye!" Wow, Jen! Remind us never to upset you :)

[@Cheepchipsable]

Jen now freaking out about her "No1 fans"...

[@tbmike23]

I will always love Richard farnsworth, mostly for Anne of green gables, but also for a great variety of reasons. Rip in every way possible. Farewell sweet prince.

[@jonanderson559]

Jen on edge right through a movie is a good sign that the suspense was just right.

[@marvinsarracino116]

Omg my ankles still hurt after watching that! I cant get that scene out of my head! Great reaction Jen! My favorite line of your reaction was "goddamn Merv"! That killed me! 😂 Misery sheds a whole new light on stalkers! 😵 Very suspenseful movie great choice for Jen's Halloween movie reactions! Cant wait for the next one! Luv ya Jen ❤💛

[@treetopjones737]

Reminds of certain joke in a Steve Martin comedy ( which happens to be in the horror category ). NO SPOILERS

[@e.d.2096]

Jen, your high anxiety reactions are some of your best. I gotta love October for that reason alone! Thanks again...Eric

[@tomhoffman4330]

Hey Eric; I was expecting "Star Trek 5" but I guess Jen had some issues with it...this is Fun too.

[@e.d.2096]

@@tomhoffman4330 The choice suits the time of year. Hey Tom 👋

[@tomhoffman4330]

@@e.d.2096 That's True...but wait until Next Week!👌

[@Adam_Le-Roi_Davis.]

Hi Eric, Great comments again. I'll be back on here again later, I have to get ready to go out for some groceries before they close the supermarket in an hour. I hope that you're still around when I get back.

[@e.d.2096]

@@Adam_Le-Roi_Davis. It's only 1:30 here Adam, and I'll be here for awhile.

[@konowd]

One of the best King adaptations, Kathy Bates was the discovery of the decade, a great movie, great storytelling masterfully adapted

[@hyzmarca2737]

King does have a serial novel, The Dark Tower, a 7 book series written over a period of decades. He also has some recurring characters and concepts that appear across multiple novels.

[@alexspindler1]

A complete classic! And a great reaction. That tension as you're never sure what she might do is almost peerless and she shows those swings in mood wonderfully.

[@trinaq]

Love this movie, it's the perfect flick to get into the Halloween spirit, plus Kathy Bates is appropriately unnerving.

[@tabbyhusar756]

8:23 "I'm fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." - Winston Churchill

[@MartinKronstrom]

« It's happening right now? Oh boy oh boy oh boy! »

[@philmakris8507]

My favorite part of this movie is the Sheriff and his wife. The Sheriff was played by the great Richard Farnsworth. Check out THE STRAIGHT STORY Jen darling for a truly original movie.

[@andersthomsen3409]

Jen saying: "He should hobble to the window". Me: "Excuse me, what did you say?"

[@ptsteelers]

Hit that like button, guys!!! Jen deserves it!!!

[@MinecraftAedda]

Omg I'm just at a complete loss of words... how do you manage to take movies I've seen multiple times and elevate them to such an entirely new level?

[@tremorsfan]

I never read the novel, but from what I've heard, some of the changes include: Annie cuts of his feet and cauterizes the wound with a blow torch, the sheriff is run over by a lawn mower and his thumbs are cut off and used for candles on a birthday cake.

[@3DJapan]

"before computers". He could have written it on a computer. Even in the film Stand By Me that came out a year earlier than this book we see an author writing on a computer.

[@openfor45]

Well Jen this was a great reaction!!! Both James Caan & Kathy Bates knocked it out of the ballpark with their acting! PS: By the way Jen; I'm your number one fan!

[@stpetie7686]

Having the blanket ready was a pretty good plan.

[@ldkinbote]

Another Stephen King adaptation that he really loved was "Dr. Sleep" which was his sequel to "The Shining." The movie acts as both an adaptation of the book but also a sequel to the movie of The Shining and King really did like how well he honored both. I'd suggest the Director's Cut of it 'cause there's quite a bit of footage that was cut from it for the theatrical version and the Director's Cut gives context to things missing in the theatrical one and flows REALLY well. When I watched it, I said, "WHAT in the WORLD could they have cut from this??" I like The Shining, but I LOVE Dr. Sleep. Directed by Mike Flanagan. Another adaptation King really liked was "The Mist" which was my favorite King short story. That one was directed by Frank Darabont who's a huge Stephen King fan and they became friends. He's also famous for two other King adaptations, "The Shawshank Redemption" and "The Green Mile." He also was instrumental for bringing "The Walking Dead" to TV, since he was fans of the comic.

[@coloradofit3932]

"Stab her in the eye....stab her in the eye" 😅

[@The4thDensity]

I would recommend 'Salem's Lot' if you haven't done so already. That one really messed with my head when I was younger.

[@BillyBillyBixby]

In the book, instead of clubbing his feet with a sledgehammer, she cuts off one of his feet then cauterizes the stump with a blow torch! Pretty gory stuff.

[@StarShipGray]

I read the novel and watched the movie in elementary school. I’ve had the weirdest crush on Kathy Bates as Annie ever since. I’m not proud of that fact, but I’m not ashamed of it either. Also in the book she cuts his right foot off with an ax and then sticks his stump in the fireplace. She also cuts off one of his thumbs with an electric knife. She doesn’t break his legs.

[@zhollamychalis4252]

Excellent reaction Commander. Might I suggest Dolores Claiborne to see just how good an actress Bates is. By the way...the actress sitting across from the late James Caan is the late Lauren Bacall who several key spots in classic black white cinema along with partner Humphrey Bogart. When you are ready to deep dive into black and white classics...you may want to take a peek at The Big Sleep 1946, To Have and Have Not 1944, Dark Passage 1947 and Key Largo 1948....along with hubby Humphrey Bogart. Live long and prosper. Cheers!

[@matthewganong1730]

The book is one of my favorite King books. It was intended to be the next book by his pseudonym “Richard Bachman” but he was exposed shortly after the previous novel “Thinner” was published. The book is intended partly as a metaphor for drug addiction, which King was struggling with at the time, and Paul rediscovering his love for writing. We also get to read some excerpts from the novel as Paul writes it.

[@nooneofconsequence1251]

most very old locks like the ones in Annie's house, with a keyhole you can actually peer through, are actually pretty easy to pick with just a bobby pin... I used to do it as a kid with no special training or instruction. Any decent modern lock is impossible without specialized equipment. Even then most locksmiths will just break and replace the lock rather than try to pick it.

[@serenitymoon825]

Misery is one of my favorite movies. Also one of the scariest and stomach-churning books I've ever read

[@christopherten-eyck4473]

Thank you for letting everyone know about posting 3 videos every week. It will increase your channel. Smart move. Long time subscriber. I will be watching all of them every week.

[@Niala8419]

"a handmade set of writing slippers" always gets a lol out of me.

[@doranosaurus1415]

The writer's book agent in New York is Lauren Bacall, co-star with Humphrey Bogart in many famous movies of the 1940's! Also was his wife IRL.

[@stevenlock4012]

The Dark Tower series by King is 8 books and fantastic. Looks like it will be adapted to tv before long. I can't wait.

[@mikeljenks]

They tried to make a movie but it’s not worth watching and takes very little actual plot from the books.

[@stevenlock4012]

@@mikeljenks Mike Flanagan is attempting to make a series.

[@mikeljenks]

@@stevenlock4012 is this another one or the one on Amazon? I thought it fell through.

[@jdc7923]

The actress who played James Caan's agent was Lauren Bacall, one of Hollywood's great stars in the 40's and 50's, and wife of actor Humphrey Bogart.

[@NotaVampyre111]

When I went to movies, I liked to get there early. I'd take a book and read until the lights dimmed. I was also a big King fan. When I saw Misery I had a large hard back book of his with me. It had a huge picture of him on the book. After the movie as I was leaving a girl saw the picture on the book and mentions it to her boy friend. With an evil grin I said, "I'm his biggest fan", Her scream was so funny. On major difference was in the book she actually chopped his foot off with an axe. In the movie she broke his ankles with a sledge hammer. That was much more gruesome to me.

[@jrobwoo688]

Kathy Bates is incredible. I love her in the movie Fried Green Tomatoes.

[@jamesfield1674]

Lizzy Caplan played Annie Wilkes in Castle Rock she did a great job too

[@l34CoNCreepy]

7:25 annie driving by = the roads are open, cop was in town, shes driving opposite direction. love that small detail.

[@scottythedawg]

my god you are savage. finds a bobby pin -"stab her in the eye", given a pencil - "stab her in the eye", has meatloaf "poison her", It rains -"drown the bitch" ok that one didnt happen. I never knew you had it in you and I'm your number one fan.

[@matthewganong1730]

Other than his Dark Tower series, which follows the same characters, King has the Bill Hodges/Holly Gibney series of books with serial characters in them. They include Mr. Mercedes, Finders Keepers, End of Watch, The Outsider, If It Bleeds, and Holly. They lean much more into mystery/thriller although some have horror or supernatural elements.

[@eddie2dean]

Jen's Question @2:33 - Does Stephen King have any serial novels with all the same characters? A: Yes. The Dark Tower series. 7 books of awesomeness! It's a combination of spaghetti western, post/pre apocalyptic, Dune / Harry Potter, sci-fi time travel fantasy. A wondering knight (Roland) who has jedi like powers, is pursuing the man in black aka the crimson king... Epic!

[@chasingbirds3073]

I would throw in a dash of The Wizard of Oz, and a touch of The Lord of the Rings. 😅

[@eddie2dean]

@@chasingbirds3073 yes, absolutely! I can't believe I failed to include these examples. Wizard & Glass is definitely an homage to the Oz novels & universe.

[@danilopapais1464]

My favourite part was the deputy grabbing the sheriffs leg. That long together and that fire is still alive.

[@quatz1981]

The performances and the suspense is what makes this movie work.

[@sammyingersoll8870]

Awesome Jen! This movie is one of the best ones to react to. The book is actually more brutal than the movie. It's not too much about an obsessed fan. Annie Wilkes represents Stephen King's cocaine addiction and the grasp it had on him. Kathy Bates crushed it in this movie but she always does. Legendary performance by James Caan as well. Thanks!

[@pfury67]

One of the best confined spaces horror movies ever made.

[@mam362]

10:05 Your spontaneous use of "hobble" here made me smile given what happens later....

[@DoctorStagger]

Jen, your channel is a joy and a comfort to me. There's nothing better than getting in from a hard day at work and curling up on the sofa to smile and laugh along with you. 😃🥰 Thank you for being so adorable and awesome! 🥰😘🤭🤭🤭 xxx

[@jimclayson]

Nope nope nope nope nope. I broke both knees, along with most of my left leg and my left hand, in a car wreck in '91. The commercials advertising "Misery" for rent were all over the place. That preview where Kathy Bates starts that swing and it cuts out... I felt the implied impact every time. I'm not especially squeamish, but that scene triggers some VERY traumatic memories... 🥺 ...but I'll let the video play in the background with the sound muted to get at least one more "view" for Jen, 'cause Jen deserves it... 😁

[@beansfriend7033]

Yikes, that's a memory! Nice of you to "watch" it for Jen anyway.

[@biguy617]

Kathy Bates two other King projects. King loved this movie so much he wrote Dolores Claiborne just for Kathy Bates to play the character. He helped make a miniseries about The Stand. He had Kathy play a radio DJ in the miniseries.

[@darkforestcinema]

This is my favourite Stephen King film adaptation. The suspense is perfect, the casting, and the overall story telling is just amazingly done well. Chef's kiss. -Sage

[@auckalukaum]

I think the closest thing King has to a serial character is Holly Gibney, who appears in something like 5 novels and a novella. Excepting Roland and his gang in the Dark Tower books, of which there are 8 novels and a handful of short stories featuring Roland.

[@chadhartsees]

"Red font: Scary" - so true.

[@havok6280]

"Stab her in the eye!!!" Or pick the lock...😅

[@paddyola1]

the heart-pounding fight...

[@daz_n]

'It wasn't as scary as I thought it would be' says Jen, clearly terrified at times. 😂

[@Tigermania]

Two kinds of people in the world. Those who never watched Misery and those who have seen what hobbling is.

[@ktotheramer]

My community theater is doing a play adaptation this month! Really want to go!

[@DoggyHateFire]

The book is great, and this film is a really good adaption. The changes never bothered me because they were necessary to adapt it to a film people would actually see. All the major plot points are there and they added the Buster character because reading a book from just Paul's POV is easy because you have his inner dialogue. You can't really do the same with a film unless you want nothing but voice overs.

[@redviper6805]

Another claustrophobic thriller that will have you on the edge of your bed and where the protagonist is confined inside a room is WAIT UNTIL DARK. With the lovely Audrey Hepburn. You’ll feel her helplessness, her being trapped. Through a series of events in the prologue, a doll ends up in a blind woman’s basement apartment. It is stuffed with heroin and three crooks want it. What starts as a hustle gradually evolved into a nail biting battle of wits. That movie’s jump scare makes your heart leap out of your chest like Misery.

[@david.j9.rabbithole808]

“God damn you Merv.” 🤣❤️

[@JonathanDiNamesMusic]

Great reaction as always Jen- 1:05 is a highlight

[@jkhoover]

Hey Jenn. I'm your number one fan... 🤪🤪🤪

[@kizunadragon9]

fun fact: Kathy Bates had a crush on one of the camera operators and she was so embarrassed that she had to act like a complete psycho in front of him. It has been discussed but not outright said that the character of Annie has Borderline Personality Disorder. People with BPD experience the highs and lows of Bipolar but much more rapidly, a person with Bipolar will experience periods of mania followed by depression over weeks or maybe even months at a time, whereas people with BPD bounce between those highs and lows several times in a day, which explains her rapid mood shifts.

[@kimzwolinski9919]

I really hate that the sheriff was killed 😭 makes it even worse that they let him get outside for a second 😢😂

[@aarondesch]

@2:29 "Does Steven King have any serial novels with all the character, I wonder" Ooof, who's gonna tell her?

[@j9lorna]

Technically, the Green Mile is a series of books. They were released as a serial every few weeks.

[@AlexSwanson-rw7cv]

Hey Jen... looking forward to this as I'm your number one fan!

[@mikerhodes8454]

Probably my favorite Stephen King book and movie of all time. In the book, the "hobbling" scene was much more gruesome than the movie, and the scene in the movie turned my stomach, so that should tell you how bad it was in the book.

[@terminallumbago6465]

Another amazing Kathy Bates movie from this same time period that I think is often overlooked is Fried Green Tomatoes. I’d be cool to see more reactors check it out.

[@4thMG]

While this movie is intense I also found it to be hysterical “EAT IT!!! Lol and then after tripping her and showing the dummy head hitting the typewriter with the ding was just the cherry on top.