Dude, I bet Stephen King actually watches this and thinks "look what this guy is doing to my fiction". Good job man. You always have such interesting and fresh takes on source material that has been done amd redone and rereredone so good for you.
King is a good author but I'm not insulting or discrediting by saying that he is famous for doing what this creator is doing. He took well known stories and mythology and modernized them into the pop culture medium of the era. The horror novel was the medium of his time to tell the tale of vampire, werewolves, ghosts, ghouls, and goblins. I think he would love these presentations.
Yeah, like reports by someone who actually lives in this world but hasn't witnessed any of these things just reporting what he's read or heard. It's a cool angle
@mjnoir1 oh yeah. If you ever read the novel, the character Mike is keeping a journal with the stories of this even, the gangster shootout, the fire at the black spot, the murder of the lumberjacks, ect. It's actually kind of the main narrative of the book as if you picked up this guys old journal book and started reading it
Surely Patrick Hockstedder deserves a school counselor's record, probably from around the time his baby brother Avery died of "crib death". Maybe some of his drawings and homework essays have raised some red flags? And what about all those missing pets. Alternately, maybe the makers if Amana refrigerators have a safety film?
@desi1790 The Lonely Death of Patrick Hockstedder was the scariest part of the book, and ended with a great line of prose: (paraphrasing from memory) ..and down there in the lightless tunnels, so deep no one would ever find him, It began to feed..
Just accidentally found this and am sooooo happy! On my breaks at works, I read. I'm just re- starting the fourth book in the Gunslinger series. I got off to come home to this!!!! Very cool!
This channel is so damned clever, and I know my choice of words doesn’t do it justice. I know you must receive A LOT of requests, but I think your style and format would be perfect for epistolary epilogue involving the aftermath of the events of ’Salem’s Lot. The deaths, the disappearances, the articles, and the fire 🔥 would fit your documentary format like a glove! You probably already have something in the works, but be assured you will have an audience when completed!
Oh good idea I second this! Just ordered Salem's lot from my library. Always wanted to finish the whole book but never got the chance. Was going to wait til Halloween season but heck why not now
I love it!! You really knocked this sucker out of the ball park! And I think the King himself will be proud of what you have done here. Smile, and give yourself a good pat on the back. "It" is also one of my favorites i think its actually the very first King book I read way back when I was 16 years old and I have re-read it several times.
Have been waiting with quiet anticipation for this, ever since watching your early vids on Salems Lot, The Shining etc (and can’t speak for everyone of course, but I’d wager a fair few others have too!) Thank you George (you’re a braver man than I!)
IT is ALSO my favorite horror novel of all time. In fact, it's my favorite novel of all time regsrdless of genre because of how truly profound it is and what the overall story is saying childhood, childhood fears and traumas and how they ultimately shape us as adults, and how once we become adults, if we didn't overcome said childhood/adolescent fears and traumas early in life, they will either haunt us daily for the remainders of our lives (such as with Mike Hanlon since he never got away from Derry and so the memories and traumas remained fresh). However, it's also saying you can only run so far away and for so long before something will come along during your adult life, even if its 27 years later, to remind you of your past fears and traumas and you will once more be faced with the obligation to overcome said fears. And as someone who's the exact age of the adults in this book as ive re-read this novel no less than 3 times in the past 5 years or so, (I'm 38 now, so between ages 33-38 during my most recent re-reads, and as the kids were 11 or 12 in the novel, that means that 27 years later, in 1984-1985, they would be 38 or 39). And although the book took place in 84-85, it was quite fittingly published in 1986, and 1986 just happens to be the year I was born. Anyhow, i meant to say that, as someone who's approaching his early 40s just like the membera of the losers club, i can confirm that our fears don't just disappear, and they come back to haunt us until we can somehow overcome them.
Pennywise the Dancing Clown aka Robert Gray/Bob Gray/Mr. Gray(?) (From Dreamcatcher) aka The Spider (IT IS FEMALE!!!) aka The Giant Eye aka The Thing from Outer Space aka The Being from Beyond Time and all of the infinite forms it can take has been around since at least the Big Bang & most likely before that. I have a feeling that It has been here at least as long as the earliest Gods/Higher Powers/Omnipotent Beings or quite possibly since the very beginning of Time Itself. I DO know for sure that It is female, it can, will, does & has procreated & that It will exist long after the human race blasts itself out of existence. It is lurking around every dark corner, hiding in every shadow & hibernating in our nightmares, waiting for Its cycle to begin anew
@@stephenkingbookclub1054 Okay, that's why some of it seemed a little familiar. The framing threw me off a little bit. That's why it didn't click at first.
They don't even notice it. I think there's some sort of intoxicant in it that's undetectable, especially to adults. Only children seem to understand Derry's inherent "wrongness"
That Victim is lucky he never had to get face to face with the Clown. Honestly I wouldn't be surprised to learn Pennywise exasperated the homophobia already there. Like if pennywise wasn't there I'm sure some slurs would have been used but I don't think anyone would be dead.
Only one small beef, the Don Hagerty photo looks a little more butch than the description King gives him. In the book, he's dressed in satin and is wearing makeup. Otherwise, really good work here. 1:34 Also wanted to point out that Webby Garton looks like the bass player for a My Chemical Romance tribute band 😉
I don't really understand why it became One Armed Man syndrome? Like that whole thing is that the One Armed man was real the only time and the police were too interested in the easy answer to look into it. I can't imagine going 'Oh, he's doing the One Armed Man thing... which means its a lie which is the moral of that story."
The youngest should have been sent to "The Institute" & the older 2 should have been sentenced to "Shawshank State Prison". Actually, thinking of their heinous crimes, "The Green Mile" would have suited them better.
I loved this until the jump scare. Jump scares are such a cheap tool in horror movies and do a disservice to a King story. Its like tickling someone and then insisting you laughed because its funny and not because its a reflex. You kill all the tension using such tools, and your whole work suffers.
I love this idea so much, I told you that on The Stand video, 😉 You have such a unique perspective on King and his work, nobody else is doing this, it's awesome!!! IT is easily in my Top 5. Please please pretty please, maybe Lisey's Story? (Another Top 5, personally, it's perfect!) ❤❤ Also, new sub here, is Long Walk still going? I have 73 Pledges left at last count!😁🤗🤗🤗🤗 🚶♂️ 🚶♂️ 🚶♂️ 🚶♂️ 🚶♂️ 🚶♂️ 🚶♂️ 🚶♂️ 🚶♂️ 🚶♂️ 🚶♂️ 🚶♂️ 🚶♂️ 🚶♂️ 🚶♂️ 🚶♂️ 🚶♂️ 🚶♂️ 💀💀💀💀💀💀
More Long Walk coming soon... Lisey's Story is awesome, but it will probably be a while before I figure out how to tackle that one. I'll definitely need to re-read it again!
Just gonna repeat, what the hell? You 're using AI, you can make ANYTHING- the painting versions looks good, what on god's green earth possessed you to decide it should just look like Bill Skarsgard?
It's a fair question... my answer might disappoint you... What I tried to do with Midjourney (the program I use) is generate images that looked like the Tim Curry version of Pennywise (so I wasn't going for originality to begin with). I soon learned that Midjourney's default seems to be the Skarsgard version of Pennywise... Even if in the prompt I wrote something like "mean clown" "evil circus clown" with no mention of Stephen King, Pennywise, etc, it kept coming up Skarsgard. So then, for the sake of expediency, I just leaned into it and eventually used some images in the film too... I'll do some more experiments before I make another Derry video and we'll see how it goes.
@@ottopippenger1590 I did some prompt with Bozo the Clown... and the results were mixed. If I added adjective like "evil" "wicked" mean" or "in the style of a horror comic," etc, then the Skaarsgard make-up style comes into play. But I think if I start experimenting more without those adjectives (since clowns are naturally creepy most of the time), I might be able to make something more original for the next videos. (Fingers crossed!)
@@stephenkingbookclub1054 I've noticed this same issue in popular media all over. It's one of the reasons I detest the remakes in general. So many wonderful movies/books exist, and the minute the new version comes out.. 90% of the time inferior to the original.. everything is immediately edited to contain the new cast, characterizations, and even the new plot points... like the original never existed. I was looking for some Dune information a week or two ago and everything has been morphed into the Villeneuve mess. You try to talk to someone, especially younger people, about something and they don't even know what you are talking about because in their reality it never happened. It's not just movies and books either.. actual "live" footage of events are being edited for content.. one example is Alicia Keys mistake at the recent Super Bowl performance being "corrected" after the fact. Even original content is being quietly edited and presented as if it were always that way. It's quite disturbing honestly, straight out of Orwell's1984 where the past is constantly rewritten on a daily basis.
Dude, I bet Stephen King actually watches this and thinks "look what this guy is doing to my fiction". Good job man. You always have such interesting and fresh takes on source material that has been done amd redone and rereredone so good for you.
King is a good author but I'm not insulting or discrediting by saying that he is famous for doing what this creator is doing.
He took well known stories and mythology and modernized them into the pop culture medium of the era.
The horror novel was the medium of his time to tell the tale of vampire, werewolves, ghosts, ghouls, and goblins.
I think he would love these presentations.
Plot twist this is Stephen King behind the page 😂
King is too busy posting anti-Trump posts on X. He's lost it.
@@seananderson5334What a shame. Sucks to see someone I want to support succum to the brainrot of TDS.
He might be debating getting the chopping board out and giving the coke another rattle
Finally. A Derry Episode. Can't wait for the next chapter. 😊
I love the JCS, true crime style you did for this, and that thumbnail is gold! You just keep impressing me with every video you release.
Yeah, like reports by someone who actually lives in this world but hasn't witnessed any of these things just reporting what he's read or heard. It's a cool angle
True Crime at it's finest. Thank you
Derry, Maine has a lot of dark secrets. If someone were to write a book about them and all their connections, it would easily be over a thousand pages
and that's probably just one story
@mjnoir1 oh yeah. If you ever read the novel, the character Mike is keeping a journal with the stories of this even, the gangster shootout, the fire at the black spot, the murder of the lumberjacks, ect. It's actually kind of the main narrative of the book as if you picked up this guys old journal book and started reading it
Surely Patrick Hockstedder deserves a school counselor's record, probably from around the time his baby brother Avery died of "crib death". Maybe some of his drawings and homework essays have raised some red flags? And what about all those missing pets.
Alternately, maybe the makers if Amana refrigerators have a safety film?
But back then that type of thing was usually "swept under the rug" & not discussed because it was considered a taboo subject
Man I forgot how messed up Patrick was from the book
@desi1790 The Lonely Death of Patrick Hockstedder was the scariest part of the book, and ended with a great line of prose: (paraphrasing from memory) ..and down there in the lightless tunnels, so deep no one would ever find him, It began to feed..
Patrick is the real monster in IT.
Fantastic work, as always. The sad thing is that back in 1984 they would have just used the "gay panic" defense and gotten off scot-free.
Sad but very true.
That thumbnail was very accurate...and damn disturbing (great to see after a long day)!
Excellent work!
You do the true crime narrator voice perfectly.
Do more of derry and please let’s go to the year 1957-1958
Missed the premiere by 30 min but here now and sooo ready to dive in!
Update-This was soo good!
Just accidentally found this and am sooooo happy! On my breaks at works, I read. I'm just re- starting the fourth book in the Gunslinger series. I got off to come home to this!!!! Very cool!
I'm glad you found our little book club!
@@stephenkingbookclub1054 : I am too! Obviously, we are fellows in these worlds... Anything that furthers them well kind of adds to canon.
same here I love how the ai footage works so seamless with the audio.
Awesome. And I love that you went with the classic Tim Curry. 💯
I'd like to see your Read-React to Kings "The Night Flyer"
This channel is so damned clever, and I know my choice of words doesn’t do it justice.
I know you must receive A LOT of requests, but I think your style and format would be perfect for epistolary epilogue involving the aftermath of the events of ’Salem’s Lot. The deaths, the disappearances, the articles, and the fire 🔥 would fit your documentary format like a glove! You probably already have something in the works, but be assured you will have an audience when completed!
Oh good idea I second this! Just ordered Salem's lot from my library. Always wanted to finish the whole book but never got the chance. Was going to wait til Halloween season but heck why not now
I love it!! You really knocked this sucker out of the ball park! And I think the King himself will be proud of what you have done here. Smile, and give yourself a good pat on the back.
"It" is also one of my favorites i think its actually the very first King book I read way back when I was 16 years old and I have re-read it several times.
They float , they all float down here.Great work, mate.
Outstanding as always!!!
not many things in literature got me as much as the description of this death. biting into somebody's armpit stuck in my head for a long time.
after spending half the day at the ER, imagine my delight in finding this latest video! thank you again for your excellent work.🎈
I found this channel while I was in the hospital for a couple of months. It really helps pass the time there, eh
Hope you are feeling better! Thanks for watching :)
Have been waiting with quiet anticipation for this, ever since watching your early vids on Salems Lot, The Shining etc (and can’t speak for everyone of course, but I’d wager a fair few others have too!) Thank you George (you’re a braver man than I!)
I don't know what I was thinking. I watched this video right before going to bed. Now, I'm not going to be able to sleep all night.
IT is ALSO my favorite horror novel of all time. In fact, it's my favorite novel of all time regsrdless of genre because of how truly profound it is and what the overall story is saying childhood, childhood fears and traumas and how they ultimately shape us as adults, and how once we become adults, if we didn't overcome said childhood/adolescent fears and traumas early in life, they will either haunt us daily for the remainders of our lives (such as with Mike Hanlon since he never got away from Derry and so the memories and traumas remained fresh).
However, it's also saying you can only run so far away and for so long before something will come along during your adult life, even if its 27 years later, to remind you of your past fears and traumas and you will once more be faced with the obligation to overcome said fears.
And as someone who's the exact age of the adults in this book as ive re-read this novel no less than 3 times in the past 5 years or so, (I'm 38 now, so between ages 33-38 during my most recent re-reads, and as the kids were 11 or 12 in the novel, that means that 27 years later, in 1984-1985, they would be 38 or 39). And although the book took place in 84-85, it was quite fittingly published in 1986, and 1986 just happens to be the year I was born. Anyhow, i meant to say that, as someone who's approaching his early 40s just like the membera of the losers club, i can confirm that our fears don't just disappear, and they come back to haunt us until we can somehow overcome them.
This was great!
Yes, I've been waiting for your treatment on "It." Great story telling and illustrations.
😮waiting I’m so excited
You're amazing! I can't wait for more Derry stories!
Great video! This explains the OJ acquittal! The clown gets around !
LOL!
Pennywise the Dancing Clown
aka Robert Gray/Bob Gray/Mr. Gray(?) (From Dreamcatcher)
aka The Spider (IT IS FEMALE!!!)
aka The Giant Eye
aka The Thing from Outer Space
aka The Being from Beyond Time
and all of the infinite forms it can take has been around since at least the Big Bang & most likely before that. I have a feeling that It has been here at least as long as the earliest Gods/Higher Powers/Omnipotent Beings or quite possibly since the very beginning of Time Itself.
I DO know for sure that It is female, it can, will, does & has procreated & that It will exist long after the human race blasts itself out of existence. It is lurking around every dark corner, hiding in every shadow & hibernating in our nightmares, waiting for Its cycle to begin anew
@@SugarTits716 😬🕷
Wow this is amazing! How did you get some of the moving images?
Damn...Waterloo, New York also has Canal Days, and is at least as old as Derry. I better be careful!
Am loving the mocumentary format for this channel.
Your channel is just awesome. Will there be another installment in The Long Walk anytime soon? Thank you again.
You did a great job in narrative about the town and that crazy clown.
Don't know how this ended up in my feed, but I'm glad it did!
Welcome to the Book Club!
You're in for a treat! I've already watched all his stuff...
this is such a good concept and executed so well!!
This is awesome.. but please finish the long walk!!
Very nice 👌🏾
Yessss you are back. Thank you.
This was amazing
Loved this episode! ❤
To think I lived in Bangor, ME without knowing anything about this at the time!
That thumbnail is amazing.
Yes!!!!! A new video ❤❤❤
I really love this channel! It's so unique!😊
Thank you so much!
I had no idea this one existed either.
Not surprised to see Pennywise in another of King's works though.
This is actually a "true crime" mockumentary adaptation of the second chapter of Stephen King's novel IT...
@@stephenkingbookclub1054 Okay, that's why some of it seemed a little familiar.
The framing threw me off a little bit. That's why it didn't click at first.
I❤Derry
12:45 That's the real Pennywise right there.
11:00 why you gotta do your Constant Readers like that
Hee hee hee!
I want that hat so badly 😢
How can anyone stand that Derry air?
They don't even notice it. I think there's some sort of intoxicant in it that's undetectable, especially to adults. Only children seem to understand Derry's inherent "wrongness"
That Victim is lucky he never had to get face to face with the Clown.
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised to learn Pennywise exasperated the homophobia already there.
Like if pennywise wasn't there I'm sure some slurs would have been used but I don't think anyone would be dead.
You should do one on the kingdom hospital
Oh yeah these guys are BUSY 😍
So, Derry stories eh? Nice.
I think is the best part of the book
Only one small beef, the Don Hagerty photo looks a little more butch than the description King gives him. In the book, he's dressed in satin and is wearing makeup. Otherwise, really good work here. 1:34 Also wanted to point out that Webby Garton looks like the bass player for a My Chemical Romance tribute band 😉
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Jumped! On that subscribe button as soon as i found this
No I'm not late this is great 😃👍
Not late at all... in fact, you're early!
I don't really understand why it became One Armed Man syndrome? Like that whole thing is that the One Armed man was real the only time and the police were too interested in the easy answer to look into it.
I can't imagine going 'Oh, he's doing the One Armed Man thing... which means its a lie which is the moral of that story."
Welcome to Derry Georgie
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Seriously, I cannot believe the things people will say to cops to "get away with murder".
A Derry girl would never do such a thing!
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Am I the only idiot who thought this was a real story and not a retelling of the movie???
The youngest should have been sent to "The Institute" & the older 2 should have been sentenced to "Shawshank State Prison". Actually, thinking of their heinous crimes, "The Green Mile" would have suited them better.
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What about dreamcatcher?
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DERRY NEIGHBORS GET THE BIRD❤
LOL!
Sent his ass to Shawshank. Rough prison.
Derry is a fake town representative of Bangor, an actual real place on the map.
Derry is wayyyyyyyyyy too small to represent Bangor
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I loved this until the jump scare. Jump scares are such a cheap tool in horror movies and do a disservice to a King story. Its like tickling someone and then insisting you laughed because its funny and not because its a reflex. You kill all the tension using such tools, and your whole work suffers.
John is kinda hot
LOL!
I love this idea so much, I told you that on The Stand video, 😉 You have such a unique perspective on King and his work, nobody else is doing this, it's awesome!!! IT is easily in my Top 5. Please please pretty please, maybe Lisey's Story? (Another Top 5, personally, it's perfect!) ❤❤
Also, new sub here, is Long Walk still going? I have 73 Pledges left at last count!😁🤗🤗🤗🤗 🚶♂️ 🚶♂️ 🚶♂️ 🚶♂️ 🚶♂️ 🚶♂️ 🚶♂️ 🚶♂️ 🚶♂️ 🚶♂️ 🚶♂️ 🚶♂️ 🚶♂️ 🚶♂️ 🚶♂️ 🚶♂️ 🚶♂️ 🚶♂️ 💀💀💀💀💀💀
More Long Walk coming soon... Lisey's Story is awesome, but it will probably be a while before I figure out how to tackle that one. I'll definitely need to re-read it again!
Just gonna repeat, what the hell? You 're using AI, you can make ANYTHING- the painting versions looks good, what on god's green earth possessed you to decide it should just look like Bill Skarsgard?
It's a fair question... my answer might disappoint you... What I tried to do with Midjourney (the program I use) is generate images that looked like the Tim Curry version of Pennywise (so I wasn't going for originality to begin with). I soon learned that Midjourney's default seems to be the Skarsgard version of Pennywise... Even if in the prompt I wrote something like "mean clown" "evil circus clown" with no mention of Stephen King, Pennywise, etc, it kept coming up Skarsgard. So then, for the sake of expediency, I just leaned into it and eventually used some images in the film too... I'll do some more experiments before I make another Derry video and we'll see how it goes.
@@stephenkingbookclub1054 can you do like, bozo the clown with lion teeth? John Wayne Gacy clown?
@@ottopippenger1590 I did some prompt with Bozo the Clown... and the results were mixed. If I added adjective like "evil" "wicked" mean" or "in the style of a horror comic," etc, then the Skaarsgard make-up style comes into play. But I think if I start experimenting more without those adjectives (since clowns are naturally creepy most of the time), I might be able to make something more original for the next videos. (Fingers crossed!)
@@stephenkingbookclub1054 I've noticed this same issue in popular media all over. It's one of the reasons I detest the remakes in general. So many wonderful movies/books exist, and the minute the new version comes out.. 90% of the time inferior to the original.. everything is immediately edited to contain the new cast, characterizations, and even the new plot points... like the original never existed. I was looking for some Dune information a week or two ago and everything has been morphed into the Villeneuve mess. You try to talk to someone, especially younger people, about something and they don't even know what you are talking about because in their reality it never happened. It's not just movies and books either.. actual "live" footage of events are being edited for content.. one example is Alicia Keys mistake at the recent Super Bowl performance being "corrected" after the fact. Even original content is being quietly edited and presented as if it were always that way. It's quite disturbing honestly, straight out of Orwell's1984 where the past is constantly rewritten on a daily basis.
This was so cool, but then you just recreate the movie design. Why? Use your imagination.
Show me the chocolate
This is awesome.. but please finish the long walk!!