Highly Overrated But Still Good

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

I watched this when it came on TV in 2002, watched it 3 times since then,, excellent mini-series/ movie.. Nancy Travis was just a joy to watch in this,, Julian Sands character was awesome to.. a paranormal expert working at a local college, has always been fascinated with the Rose Red Mansion,, apparently it's haunted and lot's and lot's of people have died there. she recruits several experts in the field of the paranormal to go on a haunted house tour of Rose Red to see if it's really haunted as the legend goes,, well they get to the house and all sorts of creepy things start to happen around them.. there is a little girl who can "wake up" the house,, lot's of characters cross paths with each other, and some don't like the little girl as well.. as our teacher slowly finds out what's going on,, some may see that she is starting to lose her mind and that the house is taking her,, I love the scenes, where the house Is turned upside down,, and you don't know which room you are in,, whether you are coming or going,, will definitely recommend this to any horror fan,, or SK fan.

A truly horrible, derivative, boringly predictable movie. I could not decide if it was meant to be frightening or meant to be a joke, an uncertainty apparently shared by the actors & director (there was a director, right??).The professor was exceptionally annoying although she faced stiff competition especially, but not exclusively, from Emery. She seemed to continuously be smirking and baring her teeth in the manner of a frightened chimpanzee. The actor playing Emery had to have been told to play the part in the manner of Jerry Lewis in The Nutty Professor. Most everyone else seemed to be bored out of his/her mind, standing around waiting to deliver their lines as unconvincingly as possible.I guess it was an accomplishment that everyone (aside from the gaseously grimacing professor) managed to deliver his or her lines without smirking, although it might have been more entertaining if they played it as a comedy … not much better, but maybe a little.

As an avid Stephen King fan, I'm always excited about new work of his. Rose Red was no exception. However the more of his movies I see, the more I think he seriously needs to discuss making them with another production company. I love the idea of Rose Red, the cast was chosen well, and of course it was very well written. But the execution was mediocre at best. It was pretty clear that some of these special effects, in fact most of them, were made from a shoestring budget. Some things were just plain cheesy. In this day in age, the graphics should have been a bit more convincing. Nancy Travis did a fine job showing the deterioration from a slightly eccentric college professor to obsessed psychopath, but at times her acting was not the greatest. All in all if you're a King fan like me, you should check this out, but don't expect to find "Shawshank Redemption" or "The Green Mile" here. Good work, but he needs to fire his directors. I give it a 7.5, but round it up to an 8 because it was written by Mr. King.

At his best, Stephen King has good ideas and writes excruciatingly bad prose. And even the good ideas vanish in the translation to the screen. In my experience, there are only two good movies made from King's books--Christine and The Dead Zone (The Shining is Kubrick's biggest disappointment.) Rose Red is the worst haunted house film I have ever seen, and in the top 1% of worst movies I have ever seen. Gregory, the infallible movie cat, who normally responds to bad films with a disdainful sniff and a malodorous trip to the litter box, nearly made the same comment in from of the television about 10 minutes into the second segment.Where oh where can we start? Let's start with the special effects, if only to dismiss them. Pretty as they are, they dress up a pig. And as we all should know, you can dress up a big, put lipstick on her, and call her Monique--but she is still a pig. No bad film was ever made good with special effects--and this turkey is a prime example.How about the cast? On the whole pretty good, with a couple of veterans like Judith Ivey and Julian Sands, both of whom are capable of enlivening a film. Not here.And now, the plot. Oh, the plot. What a dreadful mess. First of all, it's a mishmash of elements from far better work. The house that's alive and malignant? And the experiment with psychics? Look no further than the best of all haunted house movies, the original version of The Haunting (not the remake!). Even King used it before in The Shining. The child medium? Firestarter, and any of a dozen different films and movies. And The Haunting did more in two hours than this in well over four.And why? To begin with, everything, including the kitchen sink and all the the plumbing, has been tossed in, with decidedly ill effect. We have academic politics. We have a mad scientist in Nancy Travis's character, who is so annoying that it's a wonder that the rest of the investigators didn't roll her up in a carpet and jump up and down, up and down, crushing her like Nero did Poppea. For heaven's sake, we even have a nerd with a neurotic smothering mother--a veritable field day for Freud.And what is worse--far far worse--is that the whole preposterous farrago makes NO SENSE WHATSOEVER. Why does writing "Open the doors" 100 times open the doors? If the house is the evil entity, why does its influence extend far the house. And, for that matter, given the aerial shots of the house in the middle of downtown Seattle, where the devil is all the open space in which characters keep getting lost? And we do not get to see the house blown up at the end? A terrible cheat-perhaps the SFX budget ran out. And, to cap it all, the dialogue is written--and delivered (with a few exceptions) in a fever pitch of hysteria that heightens the overall sense of--well, confusion is perhaps the kindest word for it.Four hours on DVD, six on television with breaks. For heaven's sake, save yourself time and brain cells. Rent a good film like the original version of The Haunting or The Uninvited (Ruth Hussy, Ray Milland.) Why anyone watches this festering heap of poo is beyond me.