Aegli Rose Red has been one of my favorite works in the horror/mystery genre for a long time. A group of people with psychic abilities, hired and led by a parapsychology professor, set out to investigate the abandoned historical mansion of Rose Red, but things begin to take a dangerous turn. Seems like an overplayed scenario, right? Certainly not! For a start, the film is incredibly atmospheric, a true masterpiece in the field of psychological horror. Most importantly, as is usually the case with the works of Stephen King, the characters are far from perfect and flawless. They carry their own personalities, history and problems that actually make them human. In this mini series mainly focused on the paranormal, you will surely recognize timeless people and issues. Not for a single minute of the 4-hour long plot will you feel tired, as all the film's details gradually build up an amazing story. Strongly recommended to all fans of the genre who haven't yet come across it.

jacklmauro This gets one point from me only because there should be some honor in being the worst King film/series. Most are terrible, so that takes some doing. 'Rose Red', though, knocks it out of the park. The characters are cartoons, all of them. The setting is absurd; a vast estate in SEATTLE no one gets near? Then, rather than go for suspense, the story goes for outlandish effects as soon as the cast enters the place. I had a hard time keeping up with the idiocy, but...the ridiculous mother arrives on the scene so, in this house BLATANTLY filled with malice, the psychics think it's a good idea to tie her up and leave her in the kitchen? The girl with the amazing powers can also broadcast music out of flowers? The reader who, very aware of the evil, says, "I'm never alone; Jesus is with me," and heads off on her own in a madhouse? What actually points up the essence of this unintentional comedy is King's cameo as a pizza guy. Like the movies, it's embarrassingly horrible.

Catharina_Sweden This movie was fairly entertaining for want of anything better to do on a Sunday afternoon, but as everything by Stephen King it had no depth - and it is not one of his best works either.Firstly, it was much too long. You cannot stretch out a haunted house movie for over four hours, because the viewers get used to the scary things in it. For instance, the two old female inhabitants who have stayed on in the house as ghosts, look really creepy the first and second time you see them. But the third or fourth time, you have become "friends" with them..! And then there became too many dead people who turned into ghosts, to be shocking or even interesting anymore...IF you want to write a whole miniseries about a haunted house, I think there must be some other strong storyline as well, apart from the haunting. For instance a treasure hunt or a love story.Secondly, the movie is so obviously a plagiarism of "The Haunting" from 1963, and also the remake from 1999. The similarities simply are too many for them to be coincidences.Thirdly, and worst, was the high piano music and/or "creepy sounds" almost throughout the whole movie. It was so loud, that it was very difficult to hear what the actors were saying - I had to try to read their lips! But I wonder if this mistake can really have been possible in the original - it seems incredible! Maybe someone has manipulated my copy of it (I downloaded it from the internet).Fourthly, it did not have any really good scares. Not the kind that make you jump, when you suddenly see something horrible. Many times the music etc. seemed to build up to this kind of scare - but one was always disappointed by what one really saw. As so often with Stephen King, the scares were more unpleasant and gory than those "pure and high" scares in old Gothic ghost stories - that I think are the ideal in horror..!I will remember two scenes from this movie though, because they were very funny. Firstly, the "nerd" who (in the beginning) was quite indifferent to the powers who tried to scare him off, and just told them "try doing that to someone who isn't broke". (Because he needed the money he would get for taking part too much to care about anything else.) And secondly the very last pictures, when Joyce, the career-hungry, female researcher who had led them all into the mess and then died in the house herself in the end, was herself one of the ghosts in the haunted house - and obviously had resigned to her fate. Of some reason I thought this very funny - maybe because I have known some ruthless career women just like her..!

Sanpaco13 This was like The Shining meets The Haunting. I really enjoyed this miniseries in which a group of psychics enter an old mansion said to have been haunted, in hopes of sparking some new psychic events and capturing it or science. Very soon however, people start to die and go crazy and the survivors become trapped inside the house. The house actually becomes the main protagonist in this tale in that it has the ability to shift and change its structure, and uses this to lure its victims right where it wants to. For about four hours of viewing time I was literally riveted into the story, wondering who would be killed next and who was going to eventually escape. I highly recommend this to anyone who enjoys a good haunted house movie. 10 out of 10.