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Gerald teases Jessie about the disfigured man she saw, whom he calls "the man made of moonlight", and points out what he suspects is a bloody footprint on the floor.
Jessie remembers cutting her hand the night of the assault after she squeezed a glass too hard when her mother asked her about the eclipse.
The adult Jessie smashes the water glass and cuts her wrist in a way that enables her to peel back the skin , allowing her bloody hand to slip through the cuff.
She drags the bed to the key, and unlocks her other hand. She drinks water and bandages her wrist, but then passes out on the floor from blood loss and fatigue.
When she wakes, the "man made of moonlight" is at the end of the hall, and she gives him her wedding ring for his trinket bag. She makes it to her car and drives away, but sees the man again in the back seat.
The car crashes into a tree, but people from a nearby house come out. Six months later, Jessie is writing a letter to her year-old self, struggling to write with her wounded hand.
Voice-overs and scenes describe how she had pretended to have amnesia over the whole ordeal of being trapped, avoiding painful questions.
She used some of Gerald's life insurance to start a foundation for victims of sexual abuse. But each night the "man made of moonlight" still appears before her as she falls asleep.
Jessie arrives at court as the moonlight man is being sentenced, and calls for his attention. He quotes what she said before leaving the house, indicating that he was in fact there at the time.
Seeing also Gerald's and Tom's face where his face is, she says, "You're so much smaller than I remember", and walks triumphantly out into the street with the sunlight gleaming down on her.
Trevor Macy produced the film through Intrepid Pictures. In an interview with Rue Morgue in September , Flanagan stated that the film adaptation would be released by Netflix.
Principal photography on the film began on October 17, , in Mobile, Alabama. The film was released on September 29, , by Netflix. Gerald's Game received positive reviews.
The website's critics consensus states, "Carla Gugino carries Gerald's Game 's small-scale suspense with a career-defining performance. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
This article is about the Netflix film. For the Pixar animated short, see Geri's Game. Carla Gugino Bruce Greenwood.
Intrepid Pictures. Release date. Running time. The Independent. May 19, Deadline Hollywood. Penske Business Media. It does make sense in the grand scheme of things, especially with Jessie's nightmarish visions, because you didn't know at the time when she was trapped whether he was real or not.
It's just that his revelation seems awkward, like it belonged to a different story altogether. But anyway, this is a very good adaptation of a Stephen King story, so if you're a fan, there's something here that won't make you dread an unfaithful treatment of the source material.
I can't imagine Mr. King himself being displeased with the film at all. This is a step up from your usual horror NetFlix productions and especially from other Stephen King translations.
I mean it was a bomb! And in the good way. So the movie itself has that Hours touch, but far, far better than expected. And without spoiling it to you, I have to say Gerald's Game makes the most of everything.
Not one detail is left untouched, the usage of the entire environment, memories makes for a terrific viewing experience. You'll be fed tension, scares, confusion, hope and denial, a beautiful game indeed that you just have to be part of.
And let me say one more thing, the ending, that was just brilliant. The cherry on the cake. The cold beer after a long hard day.
I watched this movie because I was looking for recent, highly-rated horror movies on IMDb. I felt pretty misled by the rating which was 6.
The premise of the movie stoked my curiosity. I wondered how a woman being handcuffed to a bed could play out in a movie-length production since there didn't seem to be much to go on.
Well, it's even more boring than you would expect. Don't get me wrong, the acting is not bad and the cinematography was a bit above-average as well.
However, the story and dialogue dragged on horribly. At first, watching the interaction between the older couple feels incredibly awkward--and this is good because I think the film is intended to provoke this feeling.
It's as if you are invited over to an older couple's house and they break out into an hour-long passive-aggressive fight in your presence. But it just doesn't stop.
The characters make obviously stupid mistakes both in their relationship and in their kink-play.
Since they make such stupid mistakes it is incredibly hard to relate to them or care about them. I kept waiting and waiting for something interesting to happen only to find that there was no pay-off.
Avoid this movie if you are a horror fan looking for something scary or exciting. This movie is entirely a drama with some dark elements so maybe watch it if you are more geared towards that genre.
Lambysalamby 30 September I'm sitting in bed how fitting relaxing on a Saturday, and I just finished watching Gerald's Game, wishing I could get those 2 hours back.
Let me just say that this film was diabolical, actually painful to sit through so much so that I should have turned it off. If you decide to watch it and think maybe it will get better don't.
It gets worse. Also this may come as a surprise, because the first 10 minutes of the film are actually quite promising, I was thinking it was going to be great.
But it is after the first 10 minutes not long where you will understand why this story has been deemed one that would be impossible to translate to film.
No spoilers but a concept is introduced which just does not work for film and is actually very tedious. Anyway I'm just glad its over, I hope to never think about it again, and neither should you!
The beginning is rather promising as we are introduced to a sex deprived couple in need of rekindling their marriage.
People are saying the Stephen King book on this was great and i can not doubt it as i have not read it, but what i see is people being incredibly biased to Stephen King novel movie adaptations, the fans still give great ratings to this film, even though it is absolute crap, i hate to see that.
The movie feels boring for most of the screen time as you simply can not get excited about what is going to happen next, because we kind of know that nothing is about to happen, because of the setting.
But if the movie itself felt boring and stupid to you, wait till the ending, i am absolutely shocked about the way this film ended.
This has got to be one of the stupidest and worst ideas in the history of film making, the ending is absolutely horrible beyond belief.
Definitely something we all will forget, absolutely nothing clever, funny or extra ordinary about this film. They tried making the woman absolutely delusional to pass the time obviously, if she was just sitting there the whole time it would not even last 20 minutes, would it?
But that was also a massive flop, since the delusions were simply not engaging enough for you to care about the plot or the outcome of this film.
Completed with a laughably dire ending this movie is a joke and definitely not worth your time! It was laughable!
She pulled on the cuffs right away at the beginning, but then barely tried again. They were skinny and very very breakable. Why not try to grasp the bed post with a leg and yank?
Why not try violent up-and-down bouncing to hopefully loosen something up? I mean, why to try escape when you can just imagine people talking to you instead?
I've read the book and thought it was nothing special. After reading it I thought it would never be filmed as it's basically pages of a woman handcuffed to a bed.
It would make for a boring film, right? And it does. It starts good, does nothing for an hour, then gets back on track. It is faithful to the book but that is where the problem lies.
Well made, good acting but when nothing happens for an hour except flashbacks to other events then it becomes a struggle. Basically, it's an hour too long.
Cut the boring hour long rambling and you will have a good film. As it is, this one will test your patience. One of the best Stephen king adaptations I've watched.
Carla Gugino plays a really remarkable performance. I am so impressed while watching the film. The movie is as attractive as the book.
I hope Netflix will make more Stephen King adaptations. I loved it very much. And the form of handling child abuse was also very sensitive and subtle.
I found it dragged out endlessly and entirely dull, and guess what? This unappetising film follows suit. As in the novel, the premise is a workable one.
The attractive Carla Gugino is handcuff to a bed in a remote cabin and must figure out a way to escape. However, as with the book, the whole film is chock full of irrelevant sub-plots, unpleasant flashbacks about child abuse, and a ridiculous 'bogeyman' storyline that destroys all credibility.
What's worst about this is the endless inane back-and-forth dialogue with the imaginary characters, which truly takes the biscuit. There are flashes of strong material, including a very nasty gore scene, but they come few and far between.
I don't care if this was originally written by Stephen King and how faithful the film really is to the book.
The film is garbage. That's how it is. Its script is so dumb and doesn't know what it wants to be.
It starts as a drama and then turns into a thriller and adventure. The husband handcuffs his wife to the bed to have hardcore sex with her.
They get in argument and he dies. Now it's up to the woman to survive while she is tied to the bed while the dog eats his husband's corpse on the floor.
After this point the movie is full of fillers. Pacing issues, pointless background stories, hilarious hallucinations and boring dialogues are everywhere.
And don't even get me started on dumb ending. As I stated earlier. The film begins as drama then turns into a thriller and adventure. In the end it becomes a horror film.
Turns out she was not hallucinating and Ghoul was real all along. Then once she gets out of the bed, as a narrator she explains ghoul's character for several minutes as it the film was all about ghoul.
And in the end it turns out that the ghoul was actually a human with some disease that made him look like a ghoul. What is the point of this film?
First off, I haven't read the book, so this is about the movie only and please do note that everything after this will contain spoilers.
Initially I was very sceptic about the movie but I thought the premise was interesting, so I gave it a shot.
It definitely had its moments if you're into metaphors and subtle comparisons that form a red line.
Be it dog eat dog world or the fact that the power dynamic between the main character and the dog is again the same as between her and her father or her husband after him.
Up until the escape that creates this neat little exploration space where the female role in society is ultimately becoming a woman's personal hell, symbolized by the blood red eclipse and the girl and a woman separated by a well, which is also described in such a way it would fit the assumption that it does in fact resemble the time a girl becomes a woman, getting her first period.
Ultimately you could say that the second a girl becomes a woman she is subjected to the male hunting instinct on a very primal level, and like all heroines she again needs to pay the toll in blood to not mature in terms of body but this time in terms of mind to free herself from the shackles that she never really took off, which is of course true for a lot of women.
If that had been the movie, the somewhat eerie music together with the nice imagery of the eclipse would have worked in my mind. Had it ended with her crashing the car, I think I would even go as far as to say that it is a decent take on the subject which makes for a somewhat pleasing watch.
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Handcuffed to her bed with no hope of rescue, she begins hearing voices and seeing strange visions. Mike Flanagan. Trevor Macy.
Jeff Howard , Mike Flanagan. Sep 29, Carla Gugino Jessie Burlingame. Bruce Greenwood Gerald Burlingame. Henry Thomas.
Carel Struycken. Kate Siegel. Chiara Aurelia. Gwendolyn Mulamba Judge McGarnagle. Mike Flanagan Director. Jeff Howard Screenwriter. Mike Flanagan Screenwriter.
Trevor Macy Producer. Ian Bricke Executive Producer. Matt Levin Executive Producer. Scott Lumpkin Executive Producer.
Michael Fimognari Cinematographer. Mike Flanagan Film Editor. October 3, Full Review…. September 28, Full Review….
November 16, Rating: A Full Review…. August 9, Full Review…. View All Critic Reviews Oct 16, The kind of adaptation that takes massive risks and nearly always succeeds.
Nice to see an actor like Carla Gugino finally get a great role like this. Alec B Super Reviewer. Nov 07, One of those single location films in the vein of Buried or Frozen, and again it surprisingly works really well.
It's a character study of this woman more than anything else, and a damned intriguing one at its best moments. At its worst, it can drag a little, and sometimes get a little silly.
The ending in particular I really didn't like. Not the ending of her story, that works out fine, but the ending involving the reveal of one of her visions that feels so goofy and tagged on that it just leaves you with a real awkward taste at the end.
Still, the stuff that works in the movie works. More creep and uncomfortable than horrifying, but it does mess with your head in an effective way.
Michael M Super Reviewer. Oct 22, So, of course, no real annual horror fest would be complete without some sort of offering from the master of horror himself, Stephen King.
Having said that, however, there's a few King movies available to me across Prime and Netflix, two of these being Carrie and The Shining.
I think Pet Sematary is somewhere on there too. I could have also watched It: Chapter One if I hadn't already seen it over a month ago.
Regardless, the point I'm trying to make is that when you think of Stephen King film adaptations, you tend to think about the adaptations of his more famous books, some of which I already mentioned.
Those are the movies you would tend to gravitate to in a month where, theoretically, you should be watching all horror movies.
And lest I forget, that demonic looking German Shepherd looked like he could have gone berserk any minute. He looked more 'Cujo' than Cujo, if you know what I mean.
And then, just as with the Stephen King novel, I thought the ending with the history of The Moonlight Man Carel Struycken came across as superfluous and unnecessary to the story.
It does make sense in the grand scheme of things, especially with Jessie's nightmarish visions, because you didn't know at the time when she was trapped whether he was real or not.
It's just that his revelation seems awkward, like it belonged to a different story altogether. But anyway, this is a very good adaptation of a Stephen King story, so if you're a fan, there's something here that won't make you dread an unfaithful treatment of the source material.
I can't imagine Mr. King himself being displeased with the film at all. This is a step up from your usual horror NetFlix productions and especially from other Stephen King translations.
I mean it was a bomb! And in the good way. So the movie itself has that Hours touch, but far, far better than expected. And without spoiling it to you, I have to say Gerald's Game makes the most of everything.
Not one detail is left untouched, the usage of the entire environment, memories makes for a terrific viewing experience. You'll be fed tension, scares, confusion, hope and denial, a beautiful game indeed that you just have to be part of.
And let me say one more thing, the ending, that was just brilliant. The cherry on the cake. The cold beer after a long hard day. I watched this movie because I was looking for recent, highly-rated horror movies on IMDb.
I felt pretty misled by the rating which was 6. The premise of the movie stoked my curiosity. I wondered how a woman being handcuffed to a bed could play out in a movie-length production since there didn't seem to be much to go on.
Well, it's even more boring than you would expect. Don't get me wrong, the acting is not bad and the cinematography was a bit above-average as well.
However, the story and dialogue dragged on horribly. At first, watching the interaction between the older couple feels incredibly awkward--and this is good because I think the film is intended to provoke this feeling.
It's as if you are invited over to an older couple's house and they break out into an hour-long passive-aggressive fight in your presence. But it just doesn't stop.
The characters make obviously stupid mistakes both in their relationship and in their kink-play. Since they make such stupid mistakes it is incredibly hard to relate to them or care about them.
I kept waiting and waiting for something interesting to happen only to find that there was no pay-off. Avoid this movie if you are a horror fan looking for something scary or exciting.
This movie is entirely a drama with some dark elements so maybe watch it if you are more geared towards that genre. Lambysalamby 30 September I'm sitting in bed how fitting relaxing on a Saturday, and I just finished watching Gerald's Game, wishing I could get those 2 hours back.
Let me just say that this film was diabolical, actually painful to sit through so much so that I should have turned it off.
If you decide to watch it and think maybe it will get better don't. It gets worse. Also this may come as a surprise, because the first 10 minutes of the film are actually quite promising, I was thinking it was going to be great.
But it is after the first 10 minutes not long where you will understand why this story has been deemed one that would be impossible to translate to film.
No spoilers but a concept is introduced which just does not work for film and is actually very tedious. Anyway I'm just glad its over, I hope to never think about it again, and neither should you!
The beginning is rather promising as we are introduced to a sex deprived couple in need of rekindling their marriage. People are saying the Stephen King book on this was great and i can not doubt it as i have not read it, but what i see is people being incredibly biased to Stephen King novel movie adaptations, the fans still give great ratings to this film, even though it is absolute crap, i hate to see that.
The movie feels boring for most of the screen time as you simply can not get excited about what is going to happen next, because we kind of know that nothing is about to happen, because of the setting.
But if the movie itself felt boring and stupid to you, wait till the ending, i am absolutely shocked about the way this film ended.
This has got to be one of the stupidest and worst ideas in the history of film making, the ending is absolutely horrible beyond belief.
Definitely something we all will forget, absolutely nothing clever, funny or extra ordinary about this film. They tried making the woman absolutely delusional to pass the time obviously, if she was just sitting there the whole time it would not even last 20 minutes, would it?
But that was also a massive flop, since the delusions were simply not engaging enough for you to care about the plot or the outcome of this film.
Completed with a laughably dire ending this movie is a joke and definitely not worth your time! It was laughable! She pulled on the cuffs right away at the beginning, but then barely tried again.
They were skinny and very very breakable. Why not try to grasp the bed post with a leg and yank? Why not try violent up-and-down bouncing to hopefully loosen something up?
I mean, why to try escape when you can just imagine people talking to you instead? I've read the book and thought it was nothing special.
After reading it I thought it would never be filmed as it's basically pages of a woman handcuffed to a bed. It would make for a boring film, right?
And it does. It starts good, does nothing for an hour, then gets back on track. It is faithful to the book but that is where the problem lies.
Well made, good acting but when nothing happens for an hour except flashbacks to other events then it becomes a struggle. Basically, it's an hour too long.
Cut the boring hour long rambling and you will have a good film. As it is, this one will test your patience. One of the best Stephen king adaptations I've watched.
Carla Gugino plays a really remarkable performance. I am so impressed while watching the film. The movie is as attractive as the book.
I hope Netflix will make more Stephen King adaptations. I loved it very much. And the form of handling child abuse was also very sensitive and subtle.
I found it dragged out endlessly and entirely dull, and guess what? This unappetising film follows suit. As in the novel, the premise is a workable one.
The attractive Carla Gugino is handcuff to a bed in a remote cabin and must figure out a way to escape. However, as with the book, the whole film is chock full of irrelevant sub-plots, unpleasant flashbacks about child abuse, and a ridiculous 'bogeyman' storyline that destroys all credibility.
What's worst about this is the endless inane back-and-forth dialogue with the imaginary characters, which truly takes the biscuit. There are flashes of strong material, including a very nasty gore scene, but they come few and far between.
I don't care if this was originally written by Stephen King and how faithful the film really is to the book. The film is garbage. That's how it is. Its script is so dumb and doesn't know what it wants to be.
It starts as a drama and then turns into a thriller and adventure. The husband handcuffs his wife to the bed to have hardcore sex with her.
They get in argument and he dies. Now it's up to the woman to survive while she is tied to the bed while the dog eats his husband's corpse on the floor.
After this point the movie is full of fillers. Pacing issues, pointless background stories, hilarious hallucinations and boring dialogues are everywhere.
And don't even get me started on dumb ending. As I stated earlier. The film begins as drama then turns into a thriller and adventure.
In the end it becomes a horror film. Turns out she was not hallucinating and Ghoul was real all along. Then once she gets out of the bed, as a narrator she explains ghoul's character for several minutes as it the film was all about ghoul.
And in the end it turns out that the ghoul was actually a human with some disease that made him look like a ghoul.
What is the point of this film? First off, I haven't read the book, so this is about the movie only and please do note that everything after this will contain spoilers.
Initially I was very sceptic about the movie but I thought the premise was interesting, so I gave it a shot.
It definitely had its moments if you're into metaphors and subtle comparisons that form a red line. Be it dog eat dog world or the fact that the power dynamic between the main character and the dog is again the same as between her and her father or her husband after him.
Up until the escape that creates this neat little exploration space where the female role in society is ultimately becoming a woman's personal hell, symbolized by the blood red eclipse and the girl and a woman separated by a well, which is also described in such a way it would fit the assumption that it does in fact resemble the time a girl becomes a woman, getting her first period.
Ultimately you could say that the second a girl becomes a woman she is subjected to the male hunting instinct on a very primal level, and like all heroines she again needs to pay the toll in blood to not mature in terms of body but this time in terms of mind to free herself from the shackles that she never really took off, which is of course true for a lot of women.
If that had been the movie, the somewhat eerie music together with the nice imagery of the eclipse would have worked in my mind. Had it ended with her crashing the car, I think I would even go as far as to say that it is a decent take on the subject which makes for a somewhat pleasing watch.
Unfortunately, the movie didn't stop there. Instead, we are introduced to this weird fella who also looks more than ridiculous in the later scenes who apparently really is a necrophiliac and a complete maniac.
At that point I felt like Marketing called and asked to introduce some sort of character you can make an action figure of and that was the best way they could pull that off.
In my mind, this character adds simply nothing to the entire movie. Instead, it's even detrimental to that world building I mentioned earlier.
We suddenly see this bad guy who does so many twisted and wrong things, which somehow manages to detract from the importance of the bad male behavior explored early in the movie and that managed to make a good point.
And not only that, it also works completely different to the ubiquitous power dynamic - the visitor never really takes advantage of her.
What was the point in including him then? He really didn't do anything of note. The end is then, as it is often the case, the cherry on top.
A completely needless moment of being sassy to show how tough our main character has grown through overcomimg the obstacles against all odds, which then doesn't even line up with the aforementioned power dynamic properly.
I think it was a palatable watch but simply due to the ending I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. This has to be one of the worst horror movies I've seen.
While the lead actress is good at what she does, the script is just beyond mind-numbingly boring and almost every conversation feels irrelevant and bland.
Who wants to spend 2 hours listening to an over-the hill married couple arguing about nonsense? Not me, that's for sure. I really recommend everyone to not waste their time on this movie.
Stephen King's books are hit or miss when adapted and this one is a big miss. I have not read the book yet, but I have read many of the early stuff, from Carrie to Misery.
A woman and her husband have a little getaway to try to rekindle their failing marriage and the man handcuffs his better half to the bed.
He pops a blue pill and promptly drops dead. Pfizer may have a lawsuit on its' hands here. The following hour and a half are a drag as the woman has long and tedious conversations with her dead husband and with a version of herself.
A bad relationship with dad are shown through flashbacks and none of it works. I was bored to tears. I checked three times to see if this was a Lifetime movie.
If you like that sort of thing, you will probably like this movie. You have been warned. There are very few works of art film, music, literature, etc.
Reading Stephen King's novel "Gerald's Game" was one of those rare experiences. This adaptation, directed by Mike Flanagan, expertly captures the essence of that creepy novel and puts it on the small screen.
Earlier this fall, I proclaimed "It" to be perhaps the best book-to-film adaptation I have ever seen. With respect to that wonderful film in its own way, this one is perhaps even better.
Right from the get-go, it is clear this is a marriage on the rocks. To spice things up in the bedroom, Gerald brings along some handcuffs that Jessie reluctantly allows to be put on her as she is shackled to the bedposts.
But then, the unthinkable happens Gerald gets a bit too rough, Jessie strenuously objects, and Gerald suddenly clutches his chest and falls off the bed after having a heart attack.
This puts Jessie in quite a predicament: alone in a secluded cabin, no one around for days, her husband dying on the floor, and her chained to the bed at the mercy of the elements, her bodily needs, and a meat-hungry stray dog that senses her ebbing strength.
The clincher: The Moonlight Moon shows up at night he is real What makes this such a compelling film is how it is able to to be legitimately creepy while also telling a very smart and relevant story.
Jessie's predicament is terrifying in and of itself, but then things become more layered as the film flashes back to her childhood in order to better understand how she came to be in this marriage in the first place.
It's such a spot-on glimpse at how past traumas can manifest themselves throughout one's life There is not a single wasted scene here, as everything has meaning either to the plot or character development.
In all honest, I think "Gerald's Game" could be a big stepping stone for Netflix, as this is a movie that could have easily premiered in theaters across the country and made millions.
It is not just "good for a Netflix show", but rather one of the top films I have seen in quite some time. The fact that Netflix was able to produce something of this utmost quality makes me trust them even more going forward.
Thus, even with my high expectations I loved the book, obviously , this adaptation has quickly cemented itself as one of the top movies I have ever seen.
It tells a great story, has wonderful character development supported by terrific acting, and is legitimately unsettling at times even to seasoned cinema fans.
I am going to address the elephant in the room. The movie sucks mostly because the plot sucks. Carla Gugino Jessie Burlingame. Bruce Greenwood Gerald Burlingame.
Henry Thomas. Carel Struycken. Kate Siegel. Chiara Aurelia. Gwendolyn Mulamba Judge McGarnagle. Mike Flanagan Director. Jeff Howard Screenwriter.
Mike Flanagan Screenwriter. Trevor Macy Producer. Ian Bricke Executive Producer. Matt Levin Executive Producer.
Scott Lumpkin Executive Producer. Michael Fimognari Cinematographer. Mike Flanagan Film Editor. October 3, Full Review….
September 28, Full Review…. November 16, Rating: A Full Review…. August 9, Full Review…. View All Critic Reviews Oct 16, The kind of adaptation that takes massive risks and nearly always succeeds.
Nice to see an actor like Carla Gugino finally get a great role like this. Alec B Super Reviewer. Nov 07, One of those single location films in the vein of Buried or Frozen, and again it surprisingly works really well.
It's a character study of this woman more than anything else, and a damned intriguing one at its best moments.
At its worst, it can drag a little, and sometimes get a little silly. The ending in particular I really didn't like. Not the ending of her story, that works out fine, but the ending involving the reveal of one of her visions that feels so goofy and tagged on that it just leaves you with a real awkward taste at the end.
Still, the stuff that works in the movie works. More creep and uncomfortable than horrifying, but it does mess with your head in an effective way.
Michael M Super Reviewer. Oct 22, So, of course, no real annual horror fest would be complete without some sort of offering from the master of horror himself, Stephen King.
Having said that, however, there's a few King movies available to me across Prime and Netflix, two of these being Carrie and The Shining.
I think Pet Sematary is somewhere on there too. I could have also watched It: Chapter One if I hadn't already seen it over a month ago.
Regardless, the point I'm trying to make is that when you think of Stephen King film adaptations, you tend to think about the adaptations of his more famous books, some of which I already mentioned.
Those are the movies you would tend to gravitate to in a month where, theoretically, you should be watching all horror movies.
Having said that, Gerald's Game, to a lot of people, is not the first King book that comes to mind when they talk about his works.
In fact, my aunt, who's the biggest Stephen King fan I know, and my mom, who's more of a casual fan, both said that they could not get into Gerald's Game, in the slightest.
My mom was less into it. The way I gather it, it seems that King, who's usually very heavy with the details, may have gone a little overboard with it in this book.
My mom said she read something like thirty pages describing this person who was tied up or whatever, prior to the visions she has and everything, and she just couldn't take it.
My aunt said that, while she loves King's detailing of events, it was also too much for her. So this is one of the few King books where, through secondhand accounts, I really do not know much about.
I do know that it is about a woman whose husband has a heart attack and dies while they're playing kinky sex games, where she ends up handcuffed to the bedposts, but that's about it.
That's all the knowledge I had. I do think, however, that it's a very interesting concept for a book, given that, as far as I understand, with the exception of flashbacks, it all takes place with Jessie handcuffed to the bed.
It's one, static location with Jessie having visions and conversations with people from her own past for the entirety of the book.
And I thought that would make for an intriguing film, if they ever did get around to making a movie, which they did. It is definitely very small-scale suspense, but I do feel that's why, in the long run, this movie works.
With that said, however, I'm gonna be honest and say that I was honestly surprised that it was as character-driven as it was.
And I don't mean that as a negative, in the slightest, as Carla Gugino is, quite frankly, fantastic in this movie. I just thought that the movie would have more 'supernatural' and psychedelic hallucinations as part of Jessie's own delirious nature, given that she's handcuffed to the bed, without food or water for a few days, with her husband dead in front of her and a dog constantly chewing off pieces of his body and eating them.
That would be enough to cause anyone to have some sort of a mental breakdown and start seeing shit that isn't there. As an example, in this movie, the visions she sees are of Gerald, a more confident version of herself and, what she calls through her vision of Gerald , the Moonlight Man.
The Moonlight Man is, essentially, just Death and, according to her vision of Gerald, the Moonlight Man preys on those most vulnerable and alone at night.
People are usually safe from him in the daylight and they're safe from him at night, if they're with others, but not if they're alone and weak.
Things that Jessie, in her current state, definitely is. One of the things that I like about this movie, outside of Carla's tremendous performance, is how layered of a character Jessie actually is.
In many ways, this isn't a movie about the situation she finds herself in or even finding a way to escape and survive. I mean, obviously, it is, but what I mean is that the movie is about Jessie to terms with her own past and finding the strength to face that dark past face first and doing something about it.
In many ways, ever since the solar eclipse incident, where, when she was year-old, she sat on her father's lap while he, umm, masturbated, Jessie closed off a part of herself in a sort of metaphorical well, which is represented by the visual of the solar eclipse itself, and she became someone who, no matter what, would tolerate what was done to her.
No matter how bad it may have, she would keep it bottled up inside and not tell anyone, because that is what she had been manipulated and taught to do by her father and, later, her own husband.
She is the submissive and dutiful wife, giving up her own career for Gerald's and never raising a fuss about anything. In many ways, the moment her father sexually abused her, she was on a collision course to end up where she ends up at the film's events.
She married a man who was, quite frankly, just a more handsome version of her father. She married the same man. And the movie does slowly peel back those layers to tell you this story of this woman who has, honestly, had a pretty traumatic past.
Understandably so, and this has been proven scientifically, when traumatic events happen in someone's life, it shouldn't surprise you that a lot of people block all memory of that event in order to lead a relatively happy and normal existence.
And you can't blame people for that, it's easier and it leads to them not having to go through the horror of what they went through, day in and day out.
Watch Netflix's The Keepers to get a view on how that works. Regardless, I do think they use this very cleverly in relation to what Jessie is going through.
Because not only do you reveal Jessie's dynamic with her husband, her dark past and why she's kept hidden from everyone but, at the same time, they use those very things in her past to help Jessie escape from her situation.
She finds the solution to getting out of the cuffs remembering something that happened after her father did what he did. She crushed this glass in her hand after her mother asked if she and her father had a nice time watching the solar eclipse together.
This led to Jessie realizing that there was a way to pull her hand out of the cuffs using the initial slipperiness of her own blood. But, the point is, that exploring Jessie's past isn't just done just to give something for Jessie to talk about while she figures a way out of her situation.
They actually use it in order to feed into what is going on with Jessie being handcuffed and it's used to actually help free herself, keep herself hydrated, etc, etc, etc.
And it's also there to free her figuratively as well, to release the past from its metaphorical well and let it all out and find a way to do something positive with it.
It's all intelligently-plotted. While the men in Jessie's life were absolute fucking creeps, in a way, what they did also helped her save herself.
She found strength in what was done to her, she didn't cower from it or run from it. Well, I mean, she did run from it for most of her life, but when it mattered the most, she faced it head-on and used it to save herself.
So, yea, I thought this was a damn good movie. There's a few pacing issues at first, which I guess were understandable, but the movie provides an incredibly satisfying narrative and, on top of that, you have Carla Gugino's incredible and sympathetic performance to boot.
Another issue, I felt, that held the movie back from greatness was the aftermath of what happened. I think the movie lost something as it opened up.
I don't mind Jessie writing a letter to Mouse, as her asshole father called her when she was young, but it wasn't exactly the most satisfying of conclusions.
Though I get that the point was to show that Jessie did use her dark past to make some positive changes in her life. In all, though, these are relatively minor complaints.
As far as last year's trilogy of King movies, that all came out within six weeks of each other, It: Chapter One, this one and placed in order of their release , I'd have to say that this might actually be the best actual movie of them all.
This might seem strange to a lot of people. I enjoyed all three quite a bit, this one and It: Chapter One especially, but this movie is the better movie.
To me, undoubtedly, It was the better horror movie. There's no real fucking debate there. But I just liked this movie slightly more than It.
That's not minimizing what It did and what it succeeded at. It was very good, Pennywise was tremendous and the kids were great, but I felt that some of the members of the Losers' Club, in that movie, were a little underdeveloped.
This movie, obviously, doesn't suffer from that as, essentially, there are only four real characters of importance. Jessie, Gerald, her father and the Moonlight Man and, really, the last three all help feed into the person Jessie is, so they're there to serve HER story and not the other way around.
So, the smaller approach definitely helped in creating a tremendous character with Jessie and this movie absolutely delivered that.
I would easily recommend this movie. It's very good and I might end up giving the book a shot as result, I know it's somewhere around here.
This is a quality movie, to be sure. Jesse O Super Reviewer. Dec 08, Mike Flanagan has absolutely bowled me over, yet again. We've had some good Stephen King adaptations in and some bad ones, lookin' at you Dark Tower , but Gerald's Game gives Andy Muschietti's It a run for its money as the best one of the year.
The core story of Gerald's Game is enough to earn it a passing grade, but everything surrounding it and after it elevates it to the next level.
Gimly M Super Reviewer.
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Star Sign: Taurus. Die Gespräche mit dem imaginären Gerald und ihrem selbstbewussten Ich stärken ihr Selbstwertgefühl. Der Film feierte am Add it to your IMDbPage. Gerald Damovsky, Production Designer: Sennentuntschi. Represent Gerald Damovsky? Add or What to Watch if You Miss the "Game of Thrones" Cast. Gerald Kreisel, Editor: Im Fluß der Jahreszeiten. Update information for Gerald Kreisel» What to Watch if You Miss the "Game of Thrones" Cast. Das Spiel (Film) – Wikipedia. Nach zwei Tagen benutzt Jessie das Glas über ihrem Bett, das bisher ihre einzige Wasserquelle darstellte. Sie erinnert sich unter anderem an sexuellen Missbrauch durch ihren Vater in ihrer Jugend. Rempel German version, voice. Mike Harem Ecchi Anime. The Lev Rapace Brothers komponierten die Filmmusik. Ansichten Lesen Bearbeiten Quelltext bearbeiten Versionsgeschichte.
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