by Arnoldhenryrufus

Created on: March 01, 2007   Last Updated: May 09, 2007

* ROSE RED *

I read a review on this film and was so excited that I had to search for it and buy it, so it was straight on to E-bay I went and found my copy. In my excitement I did not take much notice on the length of the film from either the review or the box it came in. As soon as my hubby had retired for the night I curled up in his chair to watch the DVD, 2.5 hrs later I was still there getting very weary. That's was when I checked the timing and found out that it was over 4 hrs long. Ooops, well much too tired to stay up any longer, I had to watch it in two sittings. But it was well worth it.

Okay, a very long introduction sorry, I know you want to know about the film. Back in 1986 Stephen King was approached by Stephen Spielberg to write a very frightening horror story for ABC (America TV network). Stephen King went on to write Rose Red, a story of a haunted house.

Stephen King was inspired by a true life haunted house story; he elaborated on this and expanded it to make Rose Red. The story that inspired him was about the Winchester family. Oliver Winchester made the famous repeater rifle, which earned him millions; the family fortune was left to his son William, who sadly passed away at a relatively young age, leaving his grieving wife Sarah a very rich lady. Prior to loosing her beloved William, she also lost there only daughter to illness. Still grieving months after loosing both her husband and daughter, Sarah went to see a Spiritualist Medium who told her that her husband (who is in the spirit world) is not happy and that he says the family has a curse over it, because of the killing weapon the family had bought to the world and for the many lives that have been lost to it. Through the medium she was told to sell up and move to the west, buy a house and build it up, for her and the spirits (ghosts) to reside. She was told to keep building and as long as she built on the house she would stay alive. For years this is exactly what she did, building new rooms, halls even wings onto the house, the house ended up with 7 floors and numerous rooms. This continued until the day she died at the grand age of 83 years. This story inspired Stephen King to think of Rose Red as building itself, and he incorporated the Winchester mystery into the plot.

* The Plot *

You have a college professor Reardon who is trying to keep her course on parapsychology going at the college. She is dating the last surviving ancestor of the Rimbauer family. The professor wants to get a

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