In the movie adaptation of Gerald's Game, Mike Flanagan puts a copy of a book named Midnight Mass on the shelf above Jessie. That was 4 years before he made Midnight Mass. I think he's put little Stephen King easter eggs in his other works.
@AndaKent
Жыл бұрын
Oooo interesting! Now I'm going to have to go on a deep dive and try to find them all.
@d.edwardmeade3683
Жыл бұрын
I remember as a teen hearing how scary the movie, Children of the Corn was and how creepy it was to watch late at night. I eventually watched it back then around 1 in the morning on Cinemax and was just dumbfounded on what the big deal was! 😆😆😆 I've never read the short story despite being a fan of King's work. I'm glad you did this video. I find it interesting considering the story I just shared 😁😁
@anthonywheeler2082
Жыл бұрын
I always wanted to read the short story. Fun fact: Clive Barker loved the short story but hated the movie haha
@StarLord66X
Жыл бұрын
This book and movie are kinda special to me since they take place in my home state of Nebraska. It's so wild seeing my state being in something that's popular. I really enjoyed this movie as a kid, but have yet to read the novella. Will check it out, as always your videos keeps improving
@ToddSmith23
Жыл бұрын
Shadows would be seen in several places in the Scriptures. A most notable place is Psalms 23 , yeah thou I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. So shadows would be a symbol in death in many places
@user-yj8gp7og5p
Жыл бұрын
There Book of Job deals with a faithful man named Job who is tested through trials, somewhat similar to what Bert and Vicky go through. I read every Stephen King story as supernatural unless it is explicitly clear it isn't like Misery and Secret Window.
@maryama6010
Жыл бұрын
I still think it is funny that the actor who played Malichai, Courtney Gains, was Kenneth in Can’t But Me Love.
@d.edwardmeade3683
Жыл бұрын
OMG!! Right?!? LOL!!! You sh*t on my house!! 😂😂😂
@nemoniemand9264
Жыл бұрын
I too hear alleged children yelling outside, but I suspect shenanigans because I always hear them on my fishing boat before dawn
@sdruss83
Жыл бұрын
The improvement in audio is such a game changer!
@AndaKent
Жыл бұрын
I'm so glad it sounds better!
@ToddSmith23
Жыл бұрын
Job 38 is when God speaks to Job for the first time and answers Jobs complaints.
@whysosour935
Жыл бұрын
omg i have an old pottery teacher from back in highschool and she was an extra in it as a child lol ( we live in nebraska which is close to iowa btw 🫣 where it was filmed )
@nathanr6381
Жыл бұрын
Just found your channel, awesome stuff! I'm making a long list of books to read. Only just started properly getting into reading and have so far read American psycho, on the beach, a short stay in hell and reading blood meridian now. Now I have a huge treasure trove more to read! Thank you ! :)
@AndaKent
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for watching. Happy reading!
@Rhapsody1202
Жыл бұрын
So initially I thought the constant exclamations of Jesus and Christ were a comment on the ubiquitous nature of Christianity in the good ol USA, but paired with the removal of so much of the New Testament makes me think of something else. The New Testament was creating a new pact of sorts with God; Jesus and his sacrifice meant that the rules of the Old Testament - such as animal sacrifice etc - didn't need to be followed. Jesus was a new covenant with a softer, more loving, less vengeful God. With the removal of the New Testament - ie, the new covenant and rejection of previous rituals - salvation through the loving sacrifice of Christ no longer exists, perhaps justifying their human sacrifice to their corn god. In a way, the characters are crying out to a more merciful, caring God when they shout Jesus and Christ. Also, Sarah is a biblical name! She was the wife of Abraham and progenitor of his bloodline, making her essentially the mother of Israel. She was also a prophetess; quite fitting when you think about it.
@BanjoSnazzy
Жыл бұрын
Right underneath this vid, the 2023 Children of the Corn film is being recommended. I may watch it after this vid because I wasn't a fan of the original film.
@AndaKent
Жыл бұрын
I had no idea there was a recent one! I think I'll have to watch it too.
@d.edwardmeade3683
Жыл бұрын
@7:55 I agree with that thought. I'd say that is right in line with how King would approach these ideas and the subtext he was laying underneath. 👍
@ToddSmith23
Жыл бұрын
Watch the movie The Children if you want to watch a creepy movie about kids.
@unitnumbera1
Жыл бұрын
Using God's name is vain doesn't mean saying "oh my god" or "jesus christ!", it actually meant what you were saying earlier, which is bending gods word for personal benefit and using god as a justification for doing bad things (i.e killing people but saying you did it to serve the lord in some way)
@AndaKent
Жыл бұрын
I've been lied to my entire life!
@stephaniem87
Жыл бұрын
Anda , can i just say , ive been loving the content lately xoxo Love from Canada
@TestingTesting-tl7pz
8 ай бұрын
I just found and subscribed to your channel and I love your aura. Keep it up 😊👍 Edit: Also you kind of look like Angelina Jolie!
@robertegblack
Жыл бұрын
i think a familiarity with the bible (from growing up in a cult and going to private school) actually adds a lot to many horror stories (especially stephen king's). maybe the only good thing i got from religion--some extra layers to a lot of fiction.
@AndaKent
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely. I've missed out on A LOT of religious metaphor in horror because of my lack of knowledge.
@evijaanna
8 ай бұрын
The short story was amazing! Shame that i lost my copy of the Night Shift somewhere years ago, would have loved to reread the story after this.
@mikeprince6685
11 ай бұрын
Just read this short story again, as a kid Malachi used to scare the shit out of me in the movie haha
@talitafranco7230
Жыл бұрын
Love the short story, hate the movie! Is one of my favorite short stories from SK, but the movie destroyed everything about the story. They are a loving couple in the movie, in the story most of it is they hating each other.
@AndaKent
Жыл бұрын
The movie definitely preventing me from reading it for so long. I'm so glad I picked it up this year!
@3colossus3
Жыл бұрын
Sometimes God is connected to being in shadows in the Old Testament
@musicaluprising924
Жыл бұрын
The story of Job is weird. Here’s a rough summary of the story from memory: Satan goes to God and makes a bet. Satan will try to turn Job (God’s most faithful servant) against him and in return, Job’s soul will be Satan’s (or something like that). God agrees. Job is hit with famine, plague, his family dies, but he is still faithful and comes out the other side still believing that God will provide for him. Satan eventually gets bored and forfeits. God heals Job and gives him a new family. I never understood this story, I think the message is supposed to be something along the lines of “Trust in God and you will be okay, no matter how bleak the situation.” I like the New Testament a lot more than the Old Testament.
@AndaKent
Жыл бұрын
This actually makes a lot of sense in relation to Job in the movie. Thank you for the insight!
@aspieanarchist5439
Жыл бұрын
Correction: The "satan" in the Book of Job is not the Satan of the New Testament, the fallen angel and sworn enemy of God even though the transliteration process makes it appear that way. The Old Testament has multiple "satans"(Including God/ Yahweh himself). In Hebrew, Hasatan("The satan") simply means the accuser, the opposer, the adversary and is derived from the Arabic Shaitan which means the same things(The shaitan is also called Iblis in Islam and rather than a fallen angel as in Judaism and Christianity he`s regarded as the leader of the djinn) . Initially, he was the adversary of mankind and a sort of prosecutorial/trickster figure in Heaven testing humans` faith on Earth. Over time, through multiple exiles Jews became uncomfortable with worshipping the same deity who brought them droughts and plagues so they got the idea from their Persian neighbors of isolating God`s good parts(Equivalent to the Zoroastrian Ahura Mazda which is Persian for "Wise and benevolent one") and his evil parts into a separate character called Satan(Equivalent to the Zorastrian Ahriman or Angra Mainyu "The deceitful,wrathful one" hence "Father of lies"). Also, whilst serpents have long been associated with evil and trickery in mythology and religious lore, the Serpent in the creation story was initially just that, a simple talking snake in a fable which was a common plot device back then and remains so to this day.(There`s no hints until "Revelation" which wasn`t even supposed to be the ending of the New Testament, the only reason it was ultimately included(With heavy editing to remove the explicit anti-Rome stuff and add more symbolic imagery ala Daniel to convince Jews to convert to Christianity) that the snake was the Devil in disguise, indeed the ending of the story where the snake gets its legs taken away as punishment almost certainly proves it isn`t as The Devil is almost always depicted with legs, even if hooved or depicted with a limp due to the fall in many folktales and film adaptations.)Indeed, the Gnostics believed that the Serpent was the God of the Material World Yaldabaoth. Some even taught that the Serpent was a liberator of mankind from the Demiurge(The jealous, bigoted and ignorant false "God" of the Old Testament) as he brought the knowledge of morality and the spirit to Adam and Eve. Over time, through a series of political upheavals, struggles between orthodoxies and so-called "heresies"(Chief amongst them the aforementioned Gnosticism as well as the related Catharism, Docetism and Arianism, all of which cast doubt on either the mortal or divine character of Jesus in some way which as you can imagine the developing orthodoxy wasn`t keen on) Satan, Samael, Lucifer,Beelzebub, the Serpent and many other demons came to be thought of as a singular character which wasn`t the case at first at all.(Even Binsfeld`s Classification of Demons separated Lucifer the demon of pride and Satan the principal demon of wrath with Amon being the secondary demon of wrath.)
@aspieanarchist5439
Жыл бұрын
Also, the whole idea of Satan making deals with people for souls wasn`t really in The Bible, The Bible does mention demons who steal souls but it`s never said explicitly that Satan himself is one of them, it just says he`s like a lion seeking whom he may devour which is probably referencing him being a fallen cherub which is described as having multiple faces of humans and animals with the lion being the most intimidating one.
@musicaluprising924
11 ай бұрын
@@AndaKent Certainly. I may have made some errors though as I haven’t read the Bible in a long time
@musicaluprising924
11 ай бұрын
@@aspieanarchist5439 That is too much text for my ADHD brain to handle, but I really appreciate the corrections. I would rather have correct information than be spreading misinformation. I really ought to read the Bible in full sometime.
@jesshughes776
Күн бұрын
HEY NOW. CHILDREN OF THE CORN 147 IS COMING OUT THIS SUMMER.
@fabiogdeus
Жыл бұрын
Well, in this case, I really liked the book way more than the movies. Although the most recent adaptation was actually not all that bad...
@TheArtofGuitar
Жыл бұрын
And now review Korn's song: Children of the Korn. ;)
@timsroom4606
Жыл бұрын
I got this book on Google play for only 99 cents 🤩 last year.
@omarperez-jw9oh
Жыл бұрын
Battleground is another good story in that book:)
@kaushikireads
Жыл бұрын
The thumbnail😂... Anda you're so cute❤ 🥰
@henrytjernlund
5 ай бұрын
SPOILER WARNING I want to read the short story to see if it might have been inspired by Mendal Johnson's psychological horror novel Let's Go Play at the Adams'. LGPatA was published in 1974 and CotC was published only a few years later in 1977. Both involve children murdering adults in a fallow corn field.
@TheJericho1123
Жыл бұрын
you totally "shouldn`t" have those kids in the basement. wink wink. here's what Job 38 means; God continues taunting Job with a relentless catalogue of the things Job cannot claim to understand-from the deepest ocean to the heavenly constellations. With these pointed questions, God makes the point that Job's repeated attempts to defend himself have been foolish.
@robertegblack
Жыл бұрын
and the final verse (38:41) seems to tie directly into the division between adults and children and he who walks behind the rows: "Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?"
@bourbonernie9534
Жыл бұрын
Love all your shirts
@Gadoxplayer
Жыл бұрын
❤
@horrorghoul
Жыл бұрын
Corn; the Midwest sea.
@ducklord9933
Жыл бұрын
I haven't read the book but the film is just kinda boring, the kids are kinda fun. the tone is just more goofy and I just can't figure out how I am supposed to find corn scary lol.
@PeterMacansky
9 ай бұрын
@ToddSmith23
Жыл бұрын
The beast is found in Revelation. There are 2 beasts in revelation, one from the land and one from the sea. The beasts are opposed to God and they bring about persecution to those who will not follow the one beast.
@Handlebrake2
Жыл бұрын
Take what I say with a grain of salt. The old testament god was something to be feared and was said to be jelous. There's a story about job in the bible. He has a lot and the devil tells god that's the only reason he likes him. So they make a wager and god takes away everything from job including his family. However job remains faithful throughout and in the end god gives him more as well as a new family.
@NITE_SHIFTING
Жыл бұрын
Wait....NIGHT SHIFT....?!
@BaneOfThanatos
Жыл бұрын
I thought the movie was boring and not scary at all
@jesshughes776
Күн бұрын
WHAT RELIGION? First, it is impossible that anything you can touch, taste, hear, see or smell on the face of the earth, be it lighting, tornados, rocks, life of any kind, minerals from salt to plutonium or anything that be seen with the best telescope we have in orbit and what we can not see, that could possibly exist without having been created. Because of this, we can be sure that everything that is had to be made where there was absolutely nothing to make it out of. Romans 1:20 For since His invisible qualities-- eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been , so that people are without excuse.
@monagorgan7288
Жыл бұрын
neither the story nor the movie were frightening to me; The short story was better, don't get me wrong, although after first seeing the movie I did have to do a double take when passing my neighbor's yard at night full of freaking corn.
@Belihah
Жыл бұрын
longtime creeper here, are you married or a married lesbian? asking for a friend!!!!! love the book reviews btw!!!!!!
@ToddSmith23
Жыл бұрын
Well from a Christian perspective, Jesus claimed that he is the God of the Old Testament. So the God of the Old and New Testament are the same. Leading to the Christian doctrine of the Trinity. God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, one God in three persons.
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