You may have noticed a distinct lack of activity here recently. After a pretty promising start, our plans for regular activity on this blog hit a few snags. To paraphrase a certain blockbuster, life finds a way to ruin all your wonderful plans. This time, however, the plans were disrupted for entirely joyful reasons. Rik has been busy on a string of exciting projects both personal and professional, and I, for my part, have been busy doting over a lovely newborn daughter. I can't speak entirely for Rik, but life these days has been pretty good. Just not entirely conducive to unpaid blogging.
Recently our schedules have begun to stabilize enough that we've been able to discuss the future of this site, along with our other venture, Visiting and Revisiting. In the case of We Who Watch, we've decided to celebrate our favorite time of the year, Halloween, by tackling one of Stephen King's novels in a special, super-sized series of posts (as if our regular posts hadn't been long enough). So far in this project we've been going through the short stories in Stephen King's first collection, Night Shift, and we've decided to spend October discussing his first published novel, Carrie, and the four subsequent films.
Yes, you read that correctly, FOUR films. There's the classic 1976 film directed by Brian De Palma, a little remembered 1999 sequel (The Rage: Carrie 2), an even less remembered 2002 made-for-TV remake starring Angela Bettis, and the more high profile theatrical remake released in 2013 that starred Chloë Grace Moretz.
We're making this announcement ahead of time in order to give anyone who wants to play along a chance. The novel is pretty short, and can be finished in one or two dedicated sittings. However, a couple of the movies may require a bit of searching. Carrie (1976) is currently streaming on Amazon Prime, and will be available to stream on Hulu as of October 1st. The DVD can also be obtained through Netflix's disc-by-mail service. The 2013 remake is available for rent through iTunes, or Netflix's disc-by-mail service as well. The tricky ones will be the 1999 sequel, which is available for streaming only through an Amazon Prime Starz subscription, and the 2002 remake, which is unavailable for (legal) streaming anywhere. Both discs are unavailable through Netflix. There is, however, a reasonably priced set that includes both of those films, as well as the original 1976 version, on either DVD or Blu-ray. Homework in this case is optional, of course, but I for one am looking forward to finally checking out these two almost-forgotten adaptations.
If you want to play along at home, hopefully this announcement gives you enough time to prepare. Keep your eyes peeled, because we'll be back in October with a string of posts centering around Stephen King's Carrie.
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