(I suppose I should call these my, "You haven't seen [insert movie title]?!" reviews; basically all the films everyone else is nostalgic for but I never got the chance to watch). My fiancée is an avid horror fan, and had seen Rose Red fifteen years prior; I'd only heard of it in passing. Now that I've seen it, I can say it's one of my favorite horror films - definitely in the top ten. It might not be particularly horrific, but it's definitely a spooky, effective, and thoughtful take on the old haunted house trope. Rose Red is an ABC miniseries from 2002, written by none other than Stephen King, and inspired loosely by Shirley Jackson's classic novel, The Haunting of Hill House . Rose Red follows paranormal researcher Dr. Joyce Reardon (Nancy Travis) as she assembles a team of powerful psychics to investigate the mysterious, Winchester-like mansion known as Rose Red, a rambling house infested with paranormal activity. While the mansion at first
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