Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Ceticultsot Beautiful, moving film.

Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Allissa .Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Platypuschow I wasn't aware that Stephen Kings Rose Red (2002) had a prequel, upon finding out I was quite excited as the potential was really quite good.Sadly this was not penned by Stephen King at all which I find to be a really strange decision.It tells the story of Rose Reds construction and how it came to be. The setting, the cinematography, the writing is all quite good but feels forced.I enjoyed Rose Red, though I don't think it was exactly ground breaking it did manage to accomplish what it set out to do. I don't think however that this does.Though it tells a great story it gradually falls apart and when the credits rolled I was left with a frustrating number of unanswered questions.I think perhaps it could have done with an additional 30-60 minutes to flesh it out, in it's present state it is passable but very underwhelming.The Good:Couple of great momentsLooks greatThe Bad:Few plot holesToo shortThings I Learnt From This Movie:I'm anti-remakes/reboots but this and Rose Red could perhaps be considered

toxiemite There is nothing in this film that isn't covered in Rose Red. Almost every scene in this film is an extended cut of the flashbacks from the first film.Rose Red was just shy of a masterpiece but unless you really really want to see for yourself, the 90 minutes spent watching this film could be used to watch something else...anything else really.Performance and visual style are excellent, but does that matter when we've seen it all before?(I am writing this to meet with IMDb's quota of lines for an individual review... 10 lines at least per comment)

Michael DeZubiria I saw Rose Red not too long ago, and not too long after having read the book. I went to Spain in the Summer of 2003 for a few weeks. I was traveling on my own, making a documentary for the University of California, and literally on my last day in Spain, I noticed a book called My Life at Rose Red, by Stephen King, at a liquor store in a town called Benidorm on the southeastern coast. I picked it up, since I had about 30 hours of travel ahead of me back to California and because I hadn't seen a book in English in quite some time. Having been a Stephen King fan for most of my life (I opened the floodgates of horror novels when I read `It' in 6th grade), I was amazed at how much of a character study the book was, but the movie dealt with the mystery of the haunted Rose Red, not with it's construction, which is what the book is all about. The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer, I think, makes an honest attempt to go back and tell that part of the Rose Red story. What is truly odd, however, is that the movie that actually tells the story of Ellen and John Rimbauer, the story of the construction of Rose Red, about which Stephen Kings' book is written, is actually based on a journal of Ellen's that was written by a different author. I hope I have my facts straight here. King's book is actually in the form of Ellen's diary, although he delves suspiciously close to novel writing at many times. Who writes a diary like that? Anyway, this film telling the story that led up to the subject of the lengthy miniseries aired on ABC a couple years ago comes much closer to telling the story in the book from which that miniseries took its name. Its interesting that the miniseries needs a prequel to tell the story of the book upon which it is based.Okay, I'm getting a little repetitive. Much more digestible at less than half the length of Rose Red, the movie unfortunately never really comes out of the shadow of the movie that its content precedes, always coming across as a prequel that leads up to something else. Maybe it's because it didn't have enough life of its own or because I always got the feeling that it was purposely covering the holes left by Rose Red, providing an excuse for that movie having so little to do with the book upon which it was supposedly based. Either way, taken together the two movies provide a pretty interesting ghost story, one about a haunted mansion that actually has such a turbulent past leading to why it is haunted (hence the need for this prequel). It's just too bad that it takes a total of more than six hours for them to tell that story

mellyjc The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer definitely held my interest enough and made me curious to see Rose Red. In my opinion, Ellen Rimbauer was the better of the two.I loved the historical aspect of the movie, giving a definite history and personality to the house than a typical haunted house movie does. It was unique and realistic in this way, perhaps one of the reasons I preferred it to "Rose Red".This movie contains much more mystery than "Rose Red" and is much less typical. Don't go into it expecting a regular horror/thriller movie, because that's not what it is. It's a great movie to make you think and wonder about the house, and does no more than insinuate answers, which leaves you in the mood, thinking, and drawing your own conclusions to the story, which I find much more satisfying.Left me dreaming about the Winchester Mystery House. Believable, unique and thought-provoking. 8.5/10.