“We say haunted, but what we mean is that the house has gone insane.”
Story: In Seattle, Washington, there’s a house called Rose Red. Owned by the Rimbauer family, it’s said to be haunted. Deaths, disappearances, and other strange occurrences used to happen…until one day, they stopped. Cut to present day, when parapsychology professor Joyce Reardon gathers a team of talented psychics – including a particularly powerful telekinetic named Annie – to “wake up” the house. They succeed. Boy howdy, do they.
Scares: Lots of suspense, ghostly shenanigans, and evil house goings-on.
Splat Factor: it was made for network TV, so? Not so much.
Subgenre: Spooky Stephen King Miniseries
Year Released: 2002
Remake, Sequel or OG (Original Ghoul)?: Original screenplay, though King did write “The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red” as a companion piece.
Trick or Treat?: This relatively little-known Stephen King miniseries does not get enough love. Probably because its history on streaming is spotty – it’s currently on Hulu as of the publication date of this review, btw – and the DVD is out-of-print and hard to come by. But even though twenty years later, it’s kinda cheesy? It’s still a whole lot of spooky fun.
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