Jeevesie
Posts: 21
Join date: 2011-09-24
Age: 23
Location: St Andrews
 | | Subject: Books turned into movies, movies turned into books. Sat Jan 28, 2012 2:04 am | |
| There are some movies that are well known to be based on books or short stories; Lord of the Rings, 2001, Harry Potter, Bridget Jones Diary, various Stephen King based movies. There are also bunches of books that have sprung up as a result of movies, noteably the vast universe of Star Wars and Star Trek novels, as well as cash in novelisations of plenty of other movies. My question is, are there any obscure movies (ie, the kind of things Brad reviews as the Snob) which originated as books? Or any weird novelisations of Cannibal Holocaust, Silent Night, Deadly Night or the like? I ask purely out of interest, and because I think it would be hilarious to have a copy of something like "The Class of Nuke'em High" sitting on my shelf both in VHS and Paperback.  |
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Santa Dog II
Posts: 30
Join date: 2011-11-30
| | Subject: Re: Books turned into movies, movies turned into books. Mon Feb 06, 2012 3:56 am | |
| The decent Tobe Hooper slasher flick "The Funhouse" had a novelization written by Dean Koontz under a pseudonym. It's apparently pretty terrible.
I also heard that around the time it was first released in Japan, "Hausu" had a novelization. Imagine that.
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Frank Rizzo
Posts: 846
Join date: 2011-02-02
Age: 27
| | Subject: Re: Books turned into movies, movies turned into books. Mon Feb 06, 2012 4:10 am | |
| Most of my friends who regularly read Dean Koontz have told me his novels are either really freakin good, or really freakin bad, nothing in between... |
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