I saw this movie as a kid and will admit the idea of floating on a lake and not knowing what was under me always freaked me out. Can't say much has changed as an adult, lol.

@jasonmaclean719

2 ай бұрын

Two things for me about lakes. One, walking in a bottom covered in muck is pretty unsettling. And water you can't see through messes with your head. 'What's in here I can't see?'

@joshuahawkins2743

2 ай бұрын

Nope swimming pools and bathtubs are the limit for me I don't care if I can see in the water or not. Not being able to see what's coming after you is just as bad as seeing it coming to me

@DavidDrouant

2 ай бұрын

@@joshuahawkins2743 same here

@cndnclassics5874

Ай бұрын

oh my I watched this as a kid but put it to the back of my memory I've been trying to find it recently and hell ya agreed very much

@typeorulz

Ай бұрын

Clive Barker used that setting to interesting effect.

The Raft was gross and freaky. I have never looked at ponds or lakes the same. Freaked me out in my youth. I love to watch it as an adult. ❤

@DKBoogieMan

2 ай бұрын

Lakes, Ponds with very dark waters, still freak me the f**k out!

@mztweety1374

2 ай бұрын

Stephen King has been making us scared of everything since 1974😂

@Sate12

2 ай бұрын

That actually helped living in Fla. If you have water, you got gators.

@lonewolfronin9215

2 ай бұрын

That's why I have aquaphobia. I'm scared of lakes rivers and oceans. Plus not knowing how to swim doesn't help 😔

@LanceyKersti

2 ай бұрын

i never looked at ponds, lakes, oceans and sea's the same after JAWS lol. Or after studying some of the things that live in ponds lakes and oceans lol.

I was 19 when I read this story in The Twilight Zone Magazine. Since then, I’ve never looked at a gap between floorboards without cringing. I’m 63 now, so I doubt this will get any better. Thanks a lot, SK.

@AmbuBadger

17 күн бұрын

I read it when I was 12 in _Skeleton Crew_ and didn't understand some things (like the part where he felt himself stiffening), never knew there was a short flick based on it! I live in Hawaii, so nobody swims in lakes, but the story was enough to make the beach spooky.

When I was 6, my 16 y-o sister recorded Beetlejuice on a VHS. I watched it daily, but I always turned it off after Lydia’s dance. One day, I kept it running, and Creepshow 2 started playing. I assumed since parts of it were animated, it was a kids’ movie. The Raft…I’d never seen anything like it. I was so traumatized, but I couldn’t stop watching this movie that I had no business watching. I forgot the impact that short story had on me until I watched this video. Thanks for the reminder 🙂

@mjt1517

Ай бұрын

Have you watched the first Creepshow? If not, watch it. The second one is ok, but the first one is a masterpiece.

@alfonsovuittonet2557

Ай бұрын

Dude i remember watching a vhs with Snow White and the seven dwarfs on it and i also kept watching after credits and chainsaw massacre 3 came on and I remember the bridge scene traumatized me lol

@alfonsovuittonet2557

Ай бұрын

I was probably 5 or 6

@soakedbearrd

21 күн бұрын

Same thing happened with me but instead it was a vhs tape all the way on top of my pops tool closet. I popped it in and it was a porno 😂. That was horror for a 10 year old

@patrickaker4380

18 күн бұрын

I was about the same age. I was visiting my grandmas cabin in Northern Michigan where we happened to go to a pond down the road daily. The neighbor kid that lived up there was my age. I went and stayed the night and he played The Raft. Told me nothing about it before. Do not think I need to say, but I did not go near the pond that summer.

The Raft has always stuck with me and the sense of unease has never wavered in its intensity. It's pretty damn brilliant in its simplicity

@goudagirl6095

2 ай бұрын

Much more subtle than Jaws, but with the same effect...you don't want to go in the water!

@APineappleKnight

2 ай бұрын

@@goudagirl6095 like a shark, you can't reason with it. It is what it is

@mjt1517

Ай бұрын

You should read the short story.

@legoqueen2445

Ай бұрын

I think it was first Stephen King story I saw as a movie (short). It was terrifying. I would have been around 10 or 11. I think I was only a couple years older when I read The Skeleton Crew. Favourite movie is Carrie, not so much for fear factor, just love the themes and how camp the original was. First scary King movie- probably Cujo but I was very young, maybe 5 or 6, so terrifying! But first King movie that was scary/enjoyable, The Langoliers! Favourite King movie ever, the original It.

@coolerheadsprevail9312

Ай бұрын

Me too!

I was so aggravated nobody swam for it while Deke was "going down"..

@JHjh88

2 ай бұрын

Me too! 😖 From Australia 🦘

@angrytheclown801

2 ай бұрын

To be fair, it probably wouldn't work, amorphous blob and all.

@bloodmooncomics2249

2 ай бұрын

I remember as a kid watching the movie and angry that no one thought of even trying to leave. They just watched.

@daniellewillis2767

2 ай бұрын

@angrytheclown801 I think it wasn't full size yet so there was a chance, especially if they swam in different directions to shore....you just need to outswim your buddy...AND convince the police you didn't murder everyone when you get back. At least TRY. Also, we get treated to one of King's icky sex scenes, lol. He's no Paul Sheldon, that's for sure...

@waitwhat1029

2 ай бұрын

In the short story the protagonist beats himself up because this doesn't occur to him until later. Not gonna lie if I'm watching my friend being eaten alive by something that should not exist...it probably wouldn't have occurred to me until too late either.

Not exactly a creature, but the kid at the end of The Jaunt has haunted me for decades. "Longer than you think, Dad!"

@meadowsong8560

Ай бұрын

Those last words haunted me for a long time.

@billhicks808

21 күн бұрын

That's actually the one that terrifies me the most. Eternity in a vacuum with nothing but your own internal monologue is true existential horror. Any one of the other fates that potentially befall people in SK's multiverse could be unbelievably painful or soul enslavingly terrifying but they would eventually be finished organically. Eternity in a vacuum is unfathomable to the human mind yet you'd serve every second of it and then be torn out of it, returned to your real life seconds after you left and immediately collapse into mortal insanity. That's horror

@painda_5605

13 күн бұрын

@@billhicks808 not to mention the one woman who was "killed" by her husband after being thrown into the jaunt portal and not coming out the other end- she doesn't even get to die or return to real life, we have no idea what she's going through as she lives through such a cosmically grand scope of time

@adamioppolo1884

Күн бұрын

​@@billhicks808that's what happens during a bad psychedelic trip. Trippers call it ego death. It's like you're ripped from your body and it makes you think you died because you can't even remember that you're on drugs. Sometimes you relive moments in your life over and over for what can seem like 1000 years. It's very scary and some people are mentally scarred for life by it

I always thought that Creepshow 2 was underrated. I always liked it's segments and this one was a good one.

@robirvine6970

Ай бұрын

Yes, that popular and well remembered movie was "underrated"

@leonabug619

Ай бұрын

My cousin's and I would scream at the last segment, where the lady runs over the hitch-hiker and he keeps coming back saying "Thanks for the ride, Lady!" I can't help but smile when I think of those times!

@schizoidboy

Ай бұрын

@@leonabug619 Hey that's the charm of these movies. ;)

@wayneirwin4994

Ай бұрын

Agreed

@reesethe

Ай бұрын

​@@leonabug619 my sister and I still say it to this day 😂

The blob was so scary when I was a kid. I was seven years old when it came out. I had my son to watch it with me, and he just laughed at me for being afraid of the blob.🙏🏻🌸

@gbanga8617

12 күн бұрын

I think I was the same age, it feels like it was years of being horrified by open windows at night, and that gap under the bed.

Scariest thing King has written to date for me was Gage in Pet Sematery, especially the movie depiction. Only the twins in Kubrick's version of The Shining ever messed me up as bad as zombie Gage slashing Judd's Achilles tendon from under the bed.

@col.greasebagmcqueen9933

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, that screwed me up for years. I think I was maybe 8 or 9 when I first watched Pet Sematary.

@wjpperry1

2 ай бұрын

Me too! I remember when Gage was dying (again) saying "no fair no fair". He was adorable and hideous at the same time

@Uncle-Jay

Ай бұрын

Gage was heartbreaking, my best friend's Mom actually swore off ever reading or watching a product associated with King ever again. Stephen King's lack of resistance to not only presenting us horrible things but in graphic detail, regardless of the subject, is what makes him the best in my opinion.

@davidevans2810

Ай бұрын

@@wjpperry1he didn’t have to be a dick.

@Jdp313

Ай бұрын

The lil boy who got hit by the truck right ? He was adorable.

The monster in 1408 was terrifying. That it has no body, doesn't eat and never speaks made it a horrific phenomenon. The resurrected child and cat in pet sematary were disturbing by their unnaturalness as well. And Cujo by witnessing good transform into evil.

@adorhym12

Ай бұрын

*cemetery

@alisonmercer5946

Ай бұрын

​@@adorhym12 wanna bet on it. 1000 bucks says it's sematary. I always remembered that

@dicknose

Ай бұрын

Yup. Sematary. I think the idea was the sign was made by young children

@AllenGray47

Ай бұрын

@@adorhym12 It's the title of the book dude, It's misspelled on purpose

@josephlozano7792

25 күн бұрын

Is 1408 that John Cusack movie? I didn't know it was a King adaptation and thought it was a ghost story. Tell me more about this monster please.

One of the first short stories I ever read by King was The Boogie Man. That moment when he wrote about how he could hear it coming up the stairs because it WANTED him to hear it coming turned on every alarm siren in my head. I think some of them are still going off all these decades later.

@stephanhuebner4931

Ай бұрын

I had already read several SK-books (including "It") before I read "The Boogey Man", so I thought I was prepared for everything. But for some reason, this creature frightened me more than everything else I've ever read from King.

This story is the reason that, to this day, I have an irrational fear of swimming in lakes or ponds.

@kampiestarz

Ай бұрын

Ditto…

The langoliers will forever be scary to me after that adaptation. The noise they made is still with me all these years later

@srahhh

2 ай бұрын

Omg, yes. Childhood terror. Scared of big empty buildings still too actually

@lordfordification

2 ай бұрын

Airports scare me when they aren't full of people now.

@Mr__Geno

Ай бұрын

I finally got to see that movie last year and totally messes with your mind. Great movie IMO

@Uncle-Jay

Ай бұрын

Oh yuck. The Langoliers will forever be one of the worst King movies I've ever seen. Maybe only rivaling that shitty monster Truck alien virus movie.

@daphne8406

Ай бұрын

Oeh I watched the mini series as a kid with my brother and we were both sitting on the edge of our seats! 😁 Until they actually showed the creatures…😑 even to our kid-eyes back then, those graphics just made them look stupid and fake and not scary at all. We were so disappointed after all the build up. Ever since then I prefer to read scary stories rather than watch them, my imagination makes them much scarier than weird cgi 😝

Cujo. Being a victim of a dog attack when I was little, Cujo is a very personal demon.

@carolinecheney

2 ай бұрын

Were you okay?

@angrytheclown801

2 ай бұрын

@@carolinecheney The only reason I'm still alive was I watched a nature documentary on wolves a couple days before so I knew to cover my face and neck then roll on my stomach. If my grandmother hadn't heard my screams that would be the end of me.

@carolinecheney

2 ай бұрын

@angrytheclown801 wow. Glad that you're still alive and kickin!

@angrytheclown801

2 ай бұрын

@@carolinecheney Just goes to show you can meet your end at any time, enjoy what you've got.

@carolinecheney

2 ай бұрын

@@angrytheclown801 sounds good!

The Reach is probably one of my favourite stories. I think The Outsider is one of the scariest monsters to me, not only in its choice of physical victims but in its choice of lives it takes over, to see someone blamed for something they didn’t do when everything somehow points to them doing it is horrifying. False convictions are real and this is just cranking it to the extreme, real horror is always the scariest to me.

@hideousruin

2 ай бұрын

Yea. Guys like Dean Corril make the worst of fictional monsters seem like teddy bears.

"Do you love?" takes on more meaning the more life you live. King has such a way with one-liners.

@deathboy68

2 ай бұрын

"And the answer is yes..." This has followed me through the years since the first time I read it.

@the_gilded_age_phoenix8717

2 ай бұрын

@@deathboy68 ...but, if we're being honest, is the answer really "yes"? Isn't our "love" merely a self-serving appetite? We can forsake anyone in pursuit of satiating our various hungers. Nature is hungry too...and could care less if we live or cease to exist.

@LukeBailey182

2 ай бұрын

Do they float?

I started reading King in the 70s and never stopped. I believe you should read his books before seeing the movies only because his stories are more explained and frightening.

I never thought of it a monster, i always thought of it as an "organism".

@zsigzsag

Ай бұрын

There is a real scary, dangerous "organism" in ponds and lakes, can even be found in poorly maintained pools, water themed parks even some tap waters...Naegleria Fowleri, the "brain eating amoeba". Warmer weather makes it more active. Gets into the brain thru nasal passages, especially in children. Infection is rare but almost always fatal 97% die. Very hard to diagnose and often misdiagnosed as viral/bacterial meningitis. Best to wear nose plugs when swimming in these bodies of water. Horrible way to die, more horrible than any imagined monster!

@Uncle-Jay

Ай бұрын

Well in the book it's really just like an oil slick that eats you. So I imagine if someone wanted to come up with an explanation for the "monster" I think one of the easiest would be something like a mutated form of microorganisms that consumes flesh. I don't even know how outlandish that idea is. But that would still make it collectively a monster.

@HolyApplebutter

Ай бұрын

​@@Uncle-Jay Could arguably be a type of siphonophore. As such it'd be a colony of protists that work together as a "single creature" with some evolved to release a corrosive substance, and others in the colony designed to absorb the melted-off nutrients from the water, similar to what spiders do when liquifying the insides of prey. The goop that we see that makes up the creature could be a sort of membrane protist that keeps the body together, a sticky byproduct that allows the colony to cling together, or potentially some other foreign substance that the colony is able to cling to and perform basic locomotion with. I don't know, is a bit of a more interesting idea to me than the usual "giant amoeba" kind of idea.

@daniellewillis2767

Ай бұрын

@@blackdragon6 a shoggoth or an aemebic offshoot of a shoggoth

@scamster71

Ай бұрын

@@daniellewillis2767 This is what came to mind for me.

Annie Wilkes scared me more than any animal or entity.

@gigiarmany4332

2 ай бұрын

Yeah..terrifying

@midnyte_ryder

Ай бұрын

Oh yea I forgot how much that movie messed with my mind as a kid. Damn!!! Good call

I read Skeleton Crew when I was eight. But fourth grade teacher freaked out and called my parents but they were just happy I was reading at all,so they let me read the collection on the condition that I didn't bug them in the middle of the night if I had nightmares. Skeleton Crew scared the hell out of me, and prompted me to read every King book I could get my hands on.

@brendenhawley2225

Ай бұрын

I am curious about what exactly the fourth grader teacher said

"First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys. Not that all months aren't rare. But there be bad and good, as the pirates say." - Ray Bradbury, "Something Wicked This Way Comes"

@benrichards6087

2 ай бұрын

Something Wicked This Way Comes was also a very trippy movie to watch as a kid

@pamelacurl8342

Ай бұрын

When I was much younger, I loved Bradbury and I read everything up to and including 'Something Wicked This Way Comes" but I never thought his stories did well on film. He had a sweet gentle, magical way of writing. His Mars stories are wonderful.

@joanmayer304

Ай бұрын

@@pamelacurl8342I love his Mars stories. I have read The Martian Chronicles many times. They are interesting, thought provoking, and a little sad. Ray Bradbury is missed. ❤️ from 🇨🇦

I thought that short film about the guy eaten by film was from a fever dream. Glad to know it really was a thing from so long ago.

Fluffy was the most frightening King idea put to screen, for me. The Crate scared the hell out of me for a long time. Would love to see a video on Nona. That story stuck with me, and I couldn't really say why. And I think it is the only one of the "Do you love?" stories that gives an answer.

@snackbarqueen

Ай бұрын

Yes Nona was creepy as hell !

@rukysgream

29 күн бұрын

I had the original creepshow on VHS and watched it all the time. The Crate was always my favorite part

I saw this as a kid. I had NO idea what it was called until today. I wasn't sure if it was something I just dreamed up, honestly. My whole view of lakes and docks changed because of it. I can't swim anywhere near a lake dock and I HATE open lake water with a passion. Decades later and this film still affects me. Wild stuff.

@rolling-roadkill

Ай бұрын

I'm actually relieved by reading the comments and realising that I'm not the only one. 😂

@Youtubecensoredmyusername

Ай бұрын

Ha ha I saw “the burbs” as a kid and it also tramatized me for a decade 😂 I also never knew the name for a long time

As a child the twins in The Shining. As a teen it was Christine. As an adult it was Jack Torrance's alcoholism and what it did to his family.

@RomanticallyAttractedToGru

18 күн бұрын

oh that's weak, mine was the lady in misery bc what the FUCK girl

I first read Skeleton Crew in 1985, I was 15. The Raft was the story that affected me the most. The scene when Deke is pulled through the raft was the most visceral, unforgettable moment in a book I had ever read. The slow, agonizing details describing how Deke's body was pulled through the raft haunted me for weeks, months. I can still see it happening. But not the film. I've never seen Creepshow 2 for some reason. Nothing on film could capture what I watched in my head. It was horrifying.

@briansickboy

2 ай бұрын

The book is ALWAYS gonna be better than the movie. The one exception - and there's only this one exception - is the Shining. The Shining movie is better than the book

@favoritemustard3542

2 ай бұрын

👍 @brian I learned this in junior high, when we had to do a book report on a book-to-film of our choice. I chose _FIRESTARTER_ lol; good, yet a let down to the written word. Totally agree with your exception.

@analise17

Ай бұрын

​@briansickboy The Shinning miniseries directed and produced by Stephen King is awesome. I watched while staying at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park CO. Thank goodness my coworker and I were put up in a random condo (they messed up our reservation during the conference) or I'd have never slept the whole time there. I made sure to buy the DVDs right from the hotel gift shop because it was so good!

The six-legged colossus of The Mist gave me a frisson of terror, with the way it echoed the very disturbing dream the hero has at the story's beginning.

"The jaunt" from skeleton crew I believe, was the one the did it for me. The unknown and having to keep your eyes closed as you went through the jaunt, Otherwise it would drive you insanely crazy. Is what freaked me out when I first read that story. One of my top five stories.

@darkheartchick

2 ай бұрын

I love that one, too! I always got major Ray Bradbury vibes from it.

@vaevictis5178

Ай бұрын

Its not having to keep your eyes closed, its being asleep during the Jaunt itself. Being awake you live in eternity while passing through and “its longer then you think dad!”

@andygriffin9935

Ай бұрын

@@vaevictis5178 it's been awhile I thought it was something like that

@joedavis376

Ай бұрын

One of my favorites.

@kharnifex

Ай бұрын

Yeah, that one is a wild story, poor kid

I was entirely too young when my dad let me watch the Creepshow movies and this one is the one that has always stuck with me. Especially growing up near the beach. 90% of the time I'm in a body of water, I refer to the "sentient oil slick" from the Raft 😂

The Stephen King creatures that scared me the most were the creatures from insomnia. The ones that had collected things, especially when they went around cutting people's lifelines and the only person who could see him was the guy who couldn't sleep but was my favorite book because it put it all together

Interesting that you mention the internal dialogue that doesn't make it Stephen King adaptations. My favorite party of Creepshow 2's third segment, The Hitchhiker, is that the main character, Annie spends a good amount of time talking to herself. Much of what she says out loud is classic King internal dialogue.

@AdryanBlantz

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the ride, lady.😆

@ryanbrown938

Ай бұрын

​@@AdryanBlantz dude!!!! I just watched this 3 days ago on Tubi!!!!

@AdryanBlantz

Ай бұрын

@@ryanbrown938 laughed so much my eyes were starting to water the first time I watched it.

@neilrichardson7454

Ай бұрын

​@@AdryanBlantzwell the acting and special effects were awful. No wonder they animated some of the movie.

@AdryanBlantz

Ай бұрын

@@neilrichardson7454 if you take horror movies seriously, then yeah, most of them are shit.

I will always remember when that dude was being pulled through the raft, his leg breaking the wrong way, it was terrifying for a kid like me

@stephenkingbookclub1054

Ай бұрын

Yeouch! That leg scene still makes me wince!

Gage scared me the most of any stephen king adaptation. That lil devil was terrifying

@kampiestarz

Ай бұрын

Was a reason for not wanting to have kids, then Kindergarten Cop came out 😂

King always puts enough spine on the story to give you that sense of the familiar and then he pulls the rug from under you.

@Saul_T_Ballz

Ай бұрын

Yeah, I was a huge fan of his until I saw how insufferable he was on Twitter.

@leeroyjenkins6061

9 күн бұрын

​@@Saul_T_Ballz Agreed. He's a smug asshole.

that 'School is Out' song is sung by Linda Hamilton in 'Children of the Corn'...coincidence...?

@evelynzlon9492

2 ай бұрын

The real horror story is the propaganda conditioning blacks to buy US bonds near the climax of the Civil Rights Movement. A lot of black nouveau riche invested heftily in bonds during the first round of hyperinflation in the 80's. When the second round of even hyperer inflation hit, these investors sustained a net loss in purchasing power. Whites were more likely to sink their funds into stocks during the same time frame and made a killing. No pun intended.

@youfuckinknowit

2 ай бұрын

No.

@leslieortenzi8875

Ай бұрын

Definitely not! King is very precise with his song references!

@KimberlyBishh

Ай бұрын

Yeah she sang that and she was good

@bryanmerberonio5245

2 күн бұрын

❤❤❤❤

The ooze from the raft is a good call for one of the scariest creatures. For me it's between that and the whatever that was in Gray Matter.

@MissDebbieSue123

2 ай бұрын

Everytime I drank a beer back in the day and it tasted slightly funny, I would think of that line "and beer's good food for some of those bugs". So creepy!!!

@patrickcandia4985

Ай бұрын

Love to see that made into a movie!!

OMG! I remember watching that short film on HBO back in the early 80’s when I was like 8 or 9. Thank you for posting the name cause NO ONE knew what I was talking about when I’d talk about it nowadays. It used to TERRIFY me as a kid!

I wish The Raft would be remade as a full length movie. Great video😃

@ryanbrown938

Ай бұрын

Great idea!! Be cool to know how the "organism" or "blob" came to be.... And why that particular "lake"??? Was there a military lab nearby??? Was it created by toxic waste via illegal dumping??

@SynDC6

Ай бұрын

An origin movie would be great!

@Daemonarch2k6

Ай бұрын

Basically, the 1988 "the blob" is this movie

@ryanbrown938

Ай бұрын

@@Daemonarch2k6 meh.... You got a point....

@worldofdoom995

Ай бұрын

Its implied illegal pollution dumping was the cause​@ryanbrown938

I've said this MANY MANY times! One of the most *underrated villains from King is Tak from Desperation,* and to a lesser degree Regulator's, which takes place in a parallel universe..it indeed freaked me out originally, like REALLY REALLY freaked me out! I'm not as freaked out by it now, BUT I'm just as in love with it now as I was from my first read of it 20yrs ago 💜 I mean you can kill Pennywise, you can kill a Hotel (for the most part) by blowing it up, etc, BUT you CAN'T kill Tak.... *he'll ALWAYS exist* 😳

@MattyMcFly_

Ай бұрын

The film intro with Ron perlman deadpan reading their legal rights while casually slipping in random death threats was done so perfectly/mirrors the book so perfectly that it creeps me out just thinking about it.

@thecassandraeffectvsperilo6754

Ай бұрын

@@MattyMcFly_ the fact that Johnny was by himself just adds another layer...he couldn't turn to anybody and ask "did you hear what I just heard?" 😳

Honestly Langoliers terrified me the most as a kid. The gloriously shit tv film is a classic. I’d love to see that covered

@ryannuhfer7427

Ай бұрын

Agreed!

Great pick. I always thought it was odd the creature was able to quickly dissolve bone and hair, but not wood, and was able to curb jump Randy, but didnt jump up onto the raft initially.

@fangal12

2 ай бұрын

I always thought the raft was like a lure so it could isolate it's prey on it's own turf

@boldbearings

2 ай бұрын

@@fangal12 Fiendish. 😈

@SanFranDentist94301

2 ай бұрын

The monster is a Thingie. A wound in between dimensions that disolves animal material. It's motivation is unclear but it seems that eating makes it get bigger and stronger. if you get too close you'll be hypnotized to willingly jump in.

@villainsrule

Ай бұрын

My friend and I always figured the blob gained the strength to jump after eating the first 3, and the burp after eating Randy meant it was finally full.

@boldbearings

Ай бұрын

@@villainsrule Thats sounds right. 👍 And greater in size with every meal, maybe it will cover the whole water....or leave it? 😱

OMG! The maneating film reel TERRIFIED me when I was a little kid! I searched for it for years before it finally showed up on KZread, and thank goodness it did because no one knew what I'd been talking about all those years. I was beginning to think it was just a really vivid nightmare.

I normally watch your videos the same day you upload, but I'm only just watching this now days later because the only time I had to watch previously was before I went to sleep and I couldn't take the chance of dreaming about this story. It's SO creepy.

True Story - I went with a buddy to Arizona back in the late 90's to stay with some girl he was talking to over some phone-connect line. Ah life before the Internet. Anyways..the girls folks let us stay for over a week at their place and I spent most of the time just drinking bud and smoking it while watching cartoons. One day however, mom's decides to show us around, and where does she take us? To the damn lake! I couldn't believe my eyes! But to ruin the excitement, I was the only one that ever saw Creepshow, meaning it was solo joy. 😞

@dicknose

Ай бұрын

You’re saying it was the actual lake from creepshow?

Man this short story was incredibly disturbing in a very intense way. I thought about this every time I was on a dock or floating raft platform at a lake or whatever for years after I read it. I've been places like this lake where everything was exactly like the story. When I laid back in the sun lying on a deck like that I could feel the thing lurking under there waiting to come to life. I was 23 or so when I first read it. I'm60 now and it's still there.

@stephenkingbookclub1054

2 ай бұрын

O_O

Timmy Baterman is the scariest character to me in the book of Pet Semetery. He becomes a creature very quickly. I was listening to the audiobook and could see him very clearly in my head as he taunts the lady with the record player.

@JHjh88

2 ай бұрын

Yes!In the book 📖 as you obviously mean - I was chilled by how he screamed after the men who went with (Younger Jud) to put 'an end to things'.The fact they had to flee dragging their amputee friend with them as Baterman screeched their inner secret shame at them just got to me. One Wonder's how he treated his father (who'd dragged his body up past the deadfall etc) when the two were alone.Yikes!😖

@D-Fens_1632

2 ай бұрын

I still vividly remember reading that passage late one night, on the edge of my seat, when all of a sudden a buddy came and banged in my bedroom window. He lived around the corner and would do it sometimes when it was late so he didn't have to ring the doorbell. I jumped. That scene is chilling. It could have been done much better in the 1989 movie, and in the remake all it gets is a glance at a newspaper with Timmy's name. Absolute blasphemy, it made me instantly hate the film.

@TiffanyMorris-jr6pg

16 күн бұрын

I feel what you're saying but in the movie Timmy baterman and victor pascal visually looked creepy asf. Also, missy with her bad back, she wasn't even dead but she felt dead to me as a kid.

You took me back with that one. I was of a similar age when I read my aunt's book. That story really grabbed me. I think the last sentence was pertaining to hearing a loon in the distance around the time of Randy's demise. Very haunting.

This short scared the hell out of me as a kid. That goop always looked like a garbage bag which made me slightly afraid of a possible sentient garbage bag 😂

the only thing I love more than watching this segment is watching others react to it, their shock fear and grossed outness is amasing

Great video. The Raft left a big impression on me since I saw it as a kid in the early 90s.

I saw this movie as an 11 year old. I immediately had a crush with LaVerne but was so freaked out after watching this movie. I still have second thoughts about lakes. It will always be there in the back of my mind. "what could be down there". The thought of something like this is more realistic than some demon or more typical monster.

“I BEAT YOU!!!!!” I will never forget this movie, lol. It was thrilling more than typical horror film scary. It was also strange, I’m not a horror enthusiast so this was perfect for me as a kid, and still til this day I remember The Raft.

I loved the werewolf in silver bullet, but most of all was Andre Lionge in storm of the century.

@RealBradMiller

2 ай бұрын

Andre Lionge is an anagram of A Nerd Legion, in case you were wondering. 😂😂😂

@SubtleStair

2 ай бұрын

Born in sin, come on in. 😈

@dicknose

Ай бұрын

@@RealBradMillerI always liked da green lion

Creepshow 2 thanks for the ride lady😂

The scariest character Stephen king wrote was the “walking dude aka the dark man” from my personal favorite book “the stand”. ❤

@jeffreyval9665

2 ай бұрын

Randall Flagg???

@ryanbrown938

Ай бұрын

Yeeeeessss!!

i'd have to go with the vampire nuns/nurses that were in a "the dark tower" side story. thinking of them creeping up on the sleeping injured men sticks in my head.

@leonabug619

Ай бұрын

Oh man, I was not expecting them to not only give him a happy ending but to "lap it up" out of their hands. 😅

So Stephen King watched 'the blob' and 'jaws' and said , "wait I got it !!!!" " BlobJaws ! " GENIUS !

@stephenkingbookclub1054

Ай бұрын

LOL!

I remember Randy yelling "I beat you!", only to be swallowed up by the creature in a wave.

You just unlocked my very traumatic memories of this movie, that I locked away for decades. This movie had me terrified as a child. So proud I’m from a generation that was exposed to this!

My big baddie is the long boy from Lisey's Story. I still avoid looking into a mirror when I get up at night.

Woo glad I found this channel. Yeah this is a good one. I saw it on Creepshow 2 and it was my favorite part of that movie

@stephenkingbookclub1054

Ай бұрын

We're glad you found us! Welcome to the Book Club :)

Then: loved it Now: still do. A bit cringe but, "it was a different time." Subbed!

I used to go to a nearby rock quarry to swim and it had a raft anchored in the center of it just like The Raft. It always scared me even as a teen.

The Raft scared the shit out of me as a child

I'm glad you pointed out in Skeleton Crew that in 3 of the stories the question is asked 'Do you love?'. I had put that together before this video on reading the book for the 2nd time. I'm so glad you mentioned the correlation with the Blob!I couldn't help but see a likeness myself & your the only person I have heard mention it! Finally, the ending of the Raft is just so bleak. When the sun comes up & it's still there is when my heart really sunk! Great video as always.❤ From Australia 🦘

@stephenkingbookclub1054

2 ай бұрын

Thank you! I'm anxious to re-read those other two stories to get more of a sense of the "Do You Love" theme.

This Blob feature has always stuck with me. It freaked me out so much as a kid. I loved it. I remember it to this day.

The lawnmower man (the short story not the movie) always freaked me out since I read it in middle school. Just the high strangeness even before it escalates had me on edge

I thought the last sentences in the story were: Randy said, "Show me something pretty." Thecolors began to swirl, and in the distance, a loon screamed. Then that was the end. Been awhile since I read this.

@stephanhuebner4931

Ай бұрын

My thoughts as well, but I could be completely wrong as its been decades since I read it.

Mr Barlow from Salems Lot was terrifying

@sandrahamel1021

Ай бұрын

I named two cats Barlow & Striker. Barlow, the cat, had some pretty long fangs..!!

Stephen King "Monster" that scared me most: Gramma from Skeleton Crew. I identified with the childhood fear of the elderly, the useless screams for help when the aunt called and the sadistic anticipation of the ending. It all felt so helpless and cruel. Great stuff!

Growing up in the 90s, watching horror movies as early as 7 yrs old was pretty common in my family. Poltergeist, Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Child's Play, etc. But when I first saw this and its first victim, it messed me up for a long time.

Oh ya, that freaked me out when i saw that when I was a kid! I loved it though, and was raving about it to all my friends at school the next day. The blob was the absolute scariest monster when i was a kid. It just keeps getting bigger and bigger....and bigger 😂

There were folk who didn't like Creepshow 2 but i didn't mind it. Creepshow 3 the less said the better.

@Mike_HuntizWet

2 ай бұрын

Nah. Part 2 was great!

@devinpaul9026

2 ай бұрын

Ol' Chief Wooden Head; Poorly done, but awesome concept. The Raft itself, not a single character I care about, but an interesting monster and a well made short. Don't remember what the next one was, but then The Hitchhiker was a very mixed bag. Cool monster (except how real is it? The writing doesn't ever seem to decide.), a character who deserves to be punished, and yet even myself who doesn't think very highly of women due to the exact themes of the short didn't think she deserved THAT MUCH. At least she had found some genuine conflict in herself over what she'd done. Overall a mess, but at least kind of a fun, almost PURPOSEFUL mess.

@UpsonPrattJr.

2 ай бұрын

@@devinpaul9026 That was it. There were only 3 stories. THAT'S what was disappointing about the Creepshow 2.

@devinpaul9026

2 ай бұрын

@@UpsonPrattJr. Well the wraparound is still it's own story. Much like most of these the story is simple but just about twisted enough with the reveal of the little bullied kid actually being a murderous little maniac. I've seen people criticize the animation/art design, but plenty of even worse stuff from around the general time was and remains well loved. It all has it's problems, and ESPECIALLY in light of the first, but it's not "bad" by any real means. And I think it DOES have an actual fourth-- the asshole highrise money and sanitation scrooge who gets invaded by armies of vengeful cockroaches so bad they literally start eating their way out of him.

@UpsonPrattJr.

2 ай бұрын

@@devinpaul9026 They're Creeping Up On You, that's the one you're thinking of. That's the last story in Creepshow. Hence my youtube name, Upson Pratt. Very few people get catch that. Yeah the wrap around story in Creepshow 2 is great and love the animation.

I keep thinking "deke made that camaro walk and talk" every time i drive since watching this lol. It's a great way to describe what we all know Deke was doing with that camaro. I'm lucky i survived those years going on ride-alongs with my older brothers friends.

The thing I always remember about the Raft is Lex Luger's WCW theme playing on the radio

Loved the video. The creature(s) that scared me the most were all from “Crouch End.” Like many King short stories, it’s told in flashback. It’s a nightmare that has already happened and there’s nothing you can do about it

When you tackle "IT" can you cover the fact it takes forever for Eddie to get in that cab. I've yelled "get in the cab man!!" so many times while listening to the audio book.

@stephenkingbookclub1054

2 ай бұрын

LOL!

Ahhh, you have taken me back to summers in the library as a middle-school kid, checking out Stephen King books and sneaking them home! 😅🎉 I read Carrie. I read Cujo. I even read the opus of terror that is It. But man oh man, I was out of my league with The Raft...!!! As you said, the visceral descriptions in that story are unparalleled. I find that King is often at his terrifying best in stories where the unknown is the scariest element. For me, The Mist and The Jaunt are both awesome for those reasons! Thank you for an awesome video...!!! 👍🎆

Even though this is a re-upload, I still love and appreciate it. ❤️

Ive watch this one so many times. Ole girls body was fucking banging. And this was the 80s so she was real

Omg I just found this channel! Stephen King is my favorite author, so glad to stumble upon a channel like this… subscribed! 👍

@stephenkingbookclub1054

18 күн бұрын

Glad you found us. Welcome to the Book Club!

The Wendigo in Pet Sematary. Absolutely terrifying. To know that it WANTS you (or your loved ones) to die so you will then WANT to bury them in the cursed MicMac burial ground. What sets this story apart from other Stephen King works is that if in fact this burial ground existed, we would all be tempted to use it. We all have that one person (or pet) that completely shattered us when they died, and we would give anything to bring them back. This is one of his stories that a lot of us would actually participate in. “Sometimes, dead is better…” …..but not to the one grieving. In that grief we would make to worst choice imaginable.

Zelda scared the shit right out of me when I was four, been addicted ever since.

@mewtoo007

Ай бұрын

Zelda will twist your back like hers, and "you'll never walk again!"

Is this a re-upload? I swear I've watched this video before.

@johnmguzman7491

2 ай бұрын

Me too

@stephenkingbookclub1054

2 ай бұрын

Yep. Had to do some re-edits to shorten some film clips... Don't want to anger the copyright gods! :)

@dontgivetwothwips3615

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for confirming I’m not losing my mind.

The blob from the raft used to make me nauseous as a kid. I started to love horror as a very young child. They just don’t make em like they used to. It’s really hard to choose, but Barlow from salems lot might be at least one of the creepiest to me.

That little troll creature at the end of Cat’s Eye still creeps me out.

The most frightening SK monster for me is the Gage thing that comes back from the Pet Sematary.

My grandfather loved the Cisco Kid and nick named me Poncho after the side kick! :D

Good evening just chilling at home listening to this absolutely love it been a fan of Stephen King for years

I saw this movie in the theater with my dad. It was a double showing; Creepshow and one of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies. When thet guy hit the shore and started mocking the monster and got eaten from the shore, i was shook 😂.

The Children of the Corn. Thinking if Isaac or Malachai chasing me around, Isaac with his little hat.

@sandrahamel1021

Ай бұрын

Still freaks me out to this day...not sure if i could watch it again. Also IT. I never trusted clowns...ever...!!

I used to see that "Recorded Live" short on HBO a lot in the late 70s, early 80s, between movies, and it always freaked me out. Even seeing it again here made me uneasy.

@wade

2 ай бұрын

It was so unsettling 😅

@BeautyKhaleesi

Ай бұрын

Same. Kids left with cable access in the 80s!

The ending always bummed me out haha

I read the short story «The Mist» as a teen and I find those creatures very scary. You can hear them and you know they are there…somewhere in the fog and you cannot fight them, only run as fast as you can and hope that you will find another shelter in time 😬

I was never creeped out by the trash bag in the water, more so the touching of the sleeping passed out girl

This show gave me nightmares as a kid.

I've never wanted to swim in lakes or rivers. I grew up where crocodiles infested most fresh and brackish water. Getting dissolved by a giant amoeba sounds even more terrifying, though.

Omg, I remember the videotape monster. It was terrifying and we had a plethora of tapes. Thanks for that memory😂

Creepshow 2 doesn't really hold up as a horror movie (IMO, anyway) but I cannot truly state just how much The Raft terrified me as a kid. Gah.