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Title: Staying faithful doesn't save it!
Review: Whether this 1997 ABC television movie version was entirely faithful to Stephen King's original novel is almost irrelevant. The film is doomed from the start for two reasons; the minor being that when you have the now-classic 1980 Stanley Kubrick/Jack Nicholson version (faithful or not!) looming in the shadows like a parasite, you can't possibly expect to come close. The major reason being, simply put, it wasn't scary; not even a little bit.If you're making a Stephen King TV movie out of a Stephen King book that's supposed to be scary, and it ISN'T, then it's project over! Not that it can't be done on TV, though. IT and THE STAND were effectively frightening in all the right places. And if you can remember the original SALEM'S LOT on CBS back in 1979; Hell, that was so scary, it could have passed for a theatrical horror film!
