#Stephen Harrigan

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[thechaoticreader]

Gotta love when you pick up a book expecting to like it and you do, but it also ends up slowly worming its way into your heart and hitting way too close to home so you develop an unhealthy attachment to it.

[charlunday]

BASED UPON THE NOVEL BY

[texaschainsawmascara]

me seeing the bad men get their karma in Mr Harrigan’s Phone (2022):

[sesiondemadrugada]

Mr. Harrigan’s Phone (John Lee Hancock, 2022).

[mandoreviews]

📽️ Mr. Harrigan’s Phone (2022)

The trailer, along with knowing it was based on a Stephen King story, made this movie look promising. I’m usually a fan of thriller, especially with a creepy supernatural element like a dead guy calling someone. Unfortunately, this movie didn’t hit that mark. I kept waiting for something good to happen or for there to be some action, but nothing happened. It ended up being a boring movie with an anticlimactic ending. This movie was disappointing.

Sex/nudity: 1/10 (male in the shower, no genitalia shown)

Language: 3/10 (one f-word, relatively little else)

Violence: 4/10 (nothing crazy, several deaths with not much shown, kid gets beat up with some blood shown)

Overall rating: 3/10

[dan2theyell]

🎃 31 Days of Halloween 🎃

Day 6

Mr. Harrigan’s Phone

“Craig, a young boy, befriends the elderly billionaire John Harrigan. Craig then gives him a mobile phone. However, when the man dies, Craig discovers that he can communicate with his friend from the grave.”

Mr. Harrigan’s Phone is adapted from a short story written by Stephen King. I would describe this movie as ominous yet touching. Sad and scary. There were many elements to this story. Because of this, Mr. Harrigan’s Phone was more than just a ghost story. It was a story of grief and loneliness. A story of two people who lead completely different lives but who are not so different after all & how they are connected in both life & death. To me, it was more about the power of grief, the strong hold it can have on you, and the importance of letting go.

Let me know your interpretation.

Edit

Someone asked me more about the horror side of this movie without spoiling it. That was very hard to do but I tried.

Even the “scary” parts weren’t really scary. It was really more of King’s tamer stories and honestly, it felt more like a Stand By Me or a coming of age film. The horror aspect is used more as a teaching device for the main character. It has an ominous and suspenseful feel but even then, this horror movie isn’t really horror to me. It is more of an emotional film. There was little substance to the horror side of things. I enjoyed it but not as a horror film. It would be a good movie for people who don’t like horror but like suspense. To really see what I mean, you will probably have to watch it. To tell you the horror portion would mean just telling you flat out what happens. Don’t go into it expecting horror though. I feel they marketed this entirely wrong for the actual story.

[anemonaee]

"Sono convinto che senti scattare qualcosa non nella testa, ma direttamente nell'anima, quando scopri il posto al quale appartieni davvero. Puoi ignorarlo, però, sul serio, perché dovresti? " Stephen King, Il telefono del signor Harrigan

[oocstephenkingtv]

Mr. Harrigan's Phone trailer (2022) [10.10.2022]

Craig: [narrating] When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. Oscar Wilde wrote that. We didn't read that book. Maybe we should have.

[m-guitguiten]

Didn't know this was a Stephen King's story. The plot may be quiet and slow, but the subject matter is so relevant. The thrill and horror slowly creep around the main character and all the people surrounding him right when Mr. Harrigan dies. Jaeden Martell oddly chooses this kind of character on screen, correct me if I'm wrong, which is okay because he's very convincing to be one. The ending might not give answers to some questions haunting the viewers since Mr. Harrigan dies, for me, it satisfyingly gives chills and shocks that are aligned to the theme and subject of the movie.

[thebearboy]

Day 5--Mr. Harrigan's Phone--2022-- A young boy befriends a wealthy recluse. When the old man dies, the boy discovers that his friend is still just a phone call away... Not a horrible movie. An interesting idea, full of Stephen King's trademark warmth and humanity-- though it would probably work better as a part of an anthology (as opposed to a feature length film).

[btwimgoingout2nite]

“There are a great many things I’m not sure of. Reality itself, for a start. I do know two things, however, and they are as solid as New England rock. I don’t want to be cremated when I go, and I want to be buried with empty pockets.”

Mr. Harrigan’s Phone from If It Bleeds - Stephen King

Happy Halloween! 🎃

A good short read from Stephen King that I found more comforting than spooky. I hope everyone enjoyed Halloweekend and had a chance to read something to get in the spirit this October :))

[james-master]

Day #12: Mr. Harrigan's Phone (2022)

Day #12: Mr. Harrigan’s Phone (2022)

Sometimes a story should stay a story. In the case of the works of Stephen King, I have thought that sentiment many times. I know why studios want to adapt his stories for the screen. I can sum it up in one word… money. “Based on the story by Stephen King” is what gets people in the movie seats. Some of the seats are filled because diehard King fans want to see if the film lives up to the source…

[splatteronmywalls]

[thepeoplesmovies]

Netflix Review - Mr Harrigan's Phone (2022)

Netflix Review - Mr Harrigan's Phone (2022) #MrHarrigansPhone #StephenKing #filmreview #jaedenMartell #DonaldSutherland @NetflixFilm

Stephen King has been considered in some quarters one of our greatest genre writers. He is also the only writer to have the most adaptations of his books to Film and television. You don’t have to be rocket scientist to not all stories have adapted well, or even should been adapted. The 2020 novella Mr Harrigan’s Phone is the latest book finding itself on Netflix. Scraping the bottom of the barrel…

[donnerjack]

Not bad at all, and Sutherland was fantastic. Had some to say about society but wasn’t too deep… not scary at all, but entertaining.