between a bed frame and a hard place
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 5
reasons why Gerald’s game is trending
before we begin we publish new videos
every day
so be sure to subscribe for more great
content for this list we’re taking a
look at why this 2017 Stephen King
adaptation is so buzz worthy while we’ll
try to keep this list spoiler free you
will be discussing a few plot points
that we’re already given away in the
trailer number 5 it has a great premise
for a horror story is it gonna be good
for us just really good part of what
makes this psychological thriller so
terrifying is that it remains mostly
grounded in the realm of plausibility
looking to rekindle the spark in their
struggling marriage carla Gugino is
Jessie and Bruce Greenwoods Gerald
travelled to a secluded lake house for a
kinky get away after handcuffing his
wife to the bed posts Gerald suffers a
heart attack and drops dead leaving the
isolated Jessie helplessly trapped much
like saw 127 hours or buried this is a
film that really puts the audience in
the main characters shoes making us
contemplate what we’d do under these
circumstances it’s easy to identify with
Jesse as a protagonist throughout her
ordeal which takes us to some deeply
horrific nightmare inducing places
number 4 word is it’s far better than
the book that’s a marriage isn’t it
telling each other the difficult things
while the 1992 novel isn’t without its
fans a lot of people wrote off Gerald’s
game as melodramatic exploitative and
certainly not one of Kings best works
but this film adaptation has received
rave reviews across the board scoring a
certified fresh’ rating on Rotten
Tomatoes many critics claimed the film
seriously improves upon the book on
paper spending the majority of a story
restrained to a bed might not seem
especially gripping pun
intended if anything it sounds kind of
static by taking the initial framework
King laid out however the filmmakers
built something both visually arresting
and emotionally involving if you don’t
wake up you’re gonna die in those
handcuffs
number three carla Gugino is performance
for better or worse carla Gugino has
been doing strong work in both movies
and television for almost three decades
since this character actress often
usually appears as part of an ensemble
though she’s never quite become a
household name Gugino gets to take
center stage in Gerald’s game the
premise offering a terrific showcase for
her acting chops in addition to
harrowing ly portraying her character’s
physical struggles she does a stellar
job at bringing out Jesse’s inner demons
as she deals with both her current
predicament
and past life turmoil between ku Geno’s
bravura performance and Mike Flanagan’s
fearless direction we truly delve deep
into Jesse’s psyche what we find inside
is an authentic an unsettling portrait
of what happens to people when they keep
trauma locked up who came here as a
family to do this on the lake it is not
going to kill her
to spend some time with the rest of us
just a complete daddy’s girl number two
you can watch it on Netflix she was
standing there in her red dress
fucking right up with Halloween around
the corner many Netflix subscribers are
in the mood for something spooky and
suspenseful and the Stephen King
adaptation perfectly fits the bill alas
The Shining misery and Kari are all
absent from the Netflix library as of
now fortunately Gerald’s game has all
the makings of a modern horror classic
and gets under your skin in all the
right ways of course if some of the
graphic imagery is too much for you to
handle
at least Netflix comes equipped with a
fast-forward feature in any case it’s
easily the best Stephen King movie
currently available on the streaming
service sorry children of the corn
there’s no competition here what was he
really doing you ignored it but you knew
is hunger for you it faded and dogs
gotta eat number one Stephen King so hot
right now
[Music]
for both of us while the Dark Tower
adaptation was a letdown
2017 has been an otherwise banner year
for Stephen King on film 1922 another
Netflix original film based on his work
earned solid reviews following its debut
at Fantastic Fest the annual Texas genre
movie showcase on the big screen Andy
mushiya DS adaptation of it has
dominated the box office becoming the
highest-grossing r-rated horror movie
ever so it shouldn’t come as a surprise
that critics and audiences are also over
the moon for Gerald’s game even King as
a fan describing a rough cut he saw as
quote hypnotic horrifying and terrific
that’s pretty powerful stuff coming from
the master as king can get rather snippy
and critical whenever another artist
tries to interpret his work and I
finally decided if you want something
done right you ought to do it yourself
do you agree with our picks check out
these other great clips from WatchMojo
and subscribe for new videos every day
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 5
reasons why Gerald’s game is trending
before we begin we publish new videos
every day
so be sure to subscribe for more great
content for this list we’re taking a
look at why this 2017 Stephen King
adaptation is so buzz worthy while we’ll
try to keep this list spoiler free you
will be discussing a few plot points
that we’re already given away in the
trailer number 5 it has a great premise
for a horror story is it gonna be good
for us just really good part of what
makes this psychological thriller so
terrifying is that it remains mostly
grounded in the realm of plausibility
looking to rekindle the spark in their
struggling marriage carla Gugino is
Jessie and Bruce Greenwoods Gerald
travelled to a secluded lake house for a
kinky get away after handcuffing his
wife to the bed posts Gerald suffers a
heart attack and drops dead leaving the
isolated Jessie helplessly trapped much
like saw 127 hours or buried this is a
film that really puts the audience in
the main characters shoes making us
contemplate what we’d do under these
circumstances it’s easy to identify with
Jesse as a protagonist throughout her
ordeal which takes us to some deeply
horrific nightmare inducing places
number 4 word is it’s far better than
the book that’s a marriage isn’t it
telling each other the difficult things
while the 1992 novel isn’t without its
fans a lot of people wrote off Gerald’s
game as melodramatic exploitative and
certainly not one of Kings best works
but this film adaptation has received
rave reviews across the board scoring a
certified fresh’ rating on Rotten
Tomatoes many critics claimed the film
seriously improves upon the book on
paper spending the majority of a story
restrained to a bed might not seem
especially gripping pun
intended if anything it sounds kind of
static by taking the initial framework
King laid out however the filmmakers
built something both visually arresting
and emotionally involving if you don’t
wake up you’re gonna die in those
handcuffs
number three carla Gugino is performance
for better or worse carla Gugino has
been doing strong work in both movies
and television for almost three decades
since this character actress often
usually appears as part of an ensemble
though she’s never quite become a
household name Gugino gets to take
center stage in Gerald’s game the
premise offering a terrific showcase for
her acting chops in addition to
harrowing ly portraying her character’s
physical struggles she does a stellar
job at bringing out Jesse’s inner demons
as she deals with both her current
predicament
and past life turmoil between ku Geno’s
bravura performance and Mike Flanagan’s
fearless direction we truly delve deep
into Jesse’s psyche what we find inside
is an authentic an unsettling portrait
of what happens to people when they keep
trauma locked up who came here as a
family to do this on the lake it is not
going to kill her
to spend some time with the rest of us
just a complete daddy’s girl number two
you can watch it on Netflix she was
standing there in her red dress
fucking right up with Halloween around
the corner many Netflix subscribers are
in the mood for something spooky and
suspenseful and the Stephen King
adaptation perfectly fits the bill alas
The Shining misery and Kari are all
absent from the Netflix library as of
now fortunately Gerald’s game has all
the makings of a modern horror classic
and gets under your skin in all the
right ways of course if some of the
graphic imagery is too much for you to
handle
at least Netflix comes equipped with a
fast-forward feature in any case it’s
easily the best Stephen King movie
currently available on the streaming
service sorry children of the corn
there’s no competition here what was he
really doing you ignored it but you knew
is hunger for you it faded and dogs
gotta eat number one Stephen King so hot
right now
[Music]
for both of us while the Dark Tower
adaptation was a letdown
2017 has been an otherwise banner year
for Stephen King on film 1922 another
Netflix original film based on his work
earned solid reviews following its debut
at Fantastic Fest the annual Texas genre
movie showcase on the big screen Andy
mushiya DS adaptation of it has
dominated the box office becoming the
highest-grossing r-rated horror movie
ever so it shouldn’t come as a surprise
that critics and audiences are also over
the moon for Gerald’s game even King as
a fan describing a rough cut he saw as
quote hypnotic horrifying and terrific
that’s pretty powerful stuff coming from
the master as king can get rather snippy
and critical whenever another artist
tries to interpret his work and I
finally decided if you want something
done right you ought to do it yourself
do you agree with our picks check out
these other great clips from WatchMojo
and subscribe for new videos every day
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