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No More Mr. Matheson

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Larryw7

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I especially liked the movies he made with Roger Corman, Vincent Price and Boris Karloff in the early sixties. May he rest in peace. :sorry:

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Speedy-D

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Dude, I honestly just got finished reading that book (collected with some other stories) yesterday!

 

Wow, RIP, master writer.

 

 

 

-slym

It's good, right? I think I read the same collection as you, a few years ago.

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rabidwolf

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All us fans of zombie movies will miss Mr. Matheson who was the true creator of the undead zombie horror genre. Dont get me wrong, Im a huge fan of George Romero but the reality is it was Richard Matheson that created this genre.

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Bosco685

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"Stir Of Echoes" based on Matheson's book is still a scary movie to this day.

 

Even "Real Steel" starring Hugh Jackman came from a Matheson short story called "Steel". The guy covered so many topics.

 

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Speedy-D

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"Stir Of Echoes" based on Matheson's book is still a scary movie to this day.

 

Even "Real Steel" starring Hugh Jackman came from a Matheson short story called "Steel". The guy covered so many topics.

 

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And there's a sweet Lee Marvin Twilight Zone episode based on Steel as well.

 

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smithdatura

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He was a great writer, I love his short stories.

 

He also wrote Duel.

 

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Duel was so brilliant. Both as a story and then as Spielberg's debut feature film. The periods of quiet were so unsettling against the barren desert; it was a master class in how *not* using a score all the time could add to a movie's impact.

 

Another great Matheson piece was his short "Button, Button", which was butchered in its stretched-out film adaptation as The Box, but freaked me out as a kid when I saw it closer to its true form in an episode of "The Twilight Zone."

 

Check it out - a spooky quick diversion:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1ZOX04z-Fo

 

Thanks for all the great work, Mr. Matheson.

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NewWorldOrder

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87 years old.

 

Good life! :headbang:

 

Once you reach 80 your in bonus time anyway.

 

I hope we all are that lucky!

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