Stephen King... Pedophile?

[Kyros Christian]

Has the thought ever occurred to anybody here that horror writer, Stephen King is a sick, fucked up and twisted pedophile? In just about every single one of his movies, not only are prepubescent boys the subjects of torture and murder, but they're all blonde. I think people overlook him for a demented, sadistic weirdo that secretly fantasizes about hurting young, blonde boys - and has found a vent for fulfilling those fantasies of his by filming these simulated acts in his productions...

Just a thought - but I think his movies and he are just awful.

 

[Kyros Christian]

Wow, sounds like you love you some Stephen King. Even though I don't recall him directing any movies. I just know him as the genius author that has brought the world such horror classics as 'Salem's Lot, Carrie, Misery, and The Shining.

I missed the part about him hurting young blonde boys....please explain exactly what you mean by that strong claim and in what movie(s) was this featured in specifically?

All I know is what ive seen in his films. And all I know is when theres a storyline that somehow revolves around a child in one of his flicks, that child is a young, blonde boy that gets killed. I find it weird, one way or the other.

But thats just me.

 

[Kyros Christian]

Wow, sounds like you love you some Stephen King. Even though I don't recall him directing any movies. I just know him as the genius author that has brought the world such horror classics as 'Salem's Lot, Carrie, Misery, Cujo and The Shining.

I missed the part about him hurting young blonde boys....please explain exactly what you mean by that strong claim and in what movie(s) was this featured in specifically?

Pet Semetary, Children of the Corn, the Myst, IT, etc., etc. Stephen King is not on my preferred list of movies to watch... Children are always being hurt and killed in his movies. How do you not see it?

 

[Kyros Christian]

The same can be said for other horror filmmakers like Wes Craven or John Carpenter. Are they sadistic, misogynistic pigs for predominantly portraying women being hacked, stabbed and butchered to death in any of their movies?
Personally, I don't find any of it to be rousing entertainment but at the end of the day, it's only a movie.

Good point. My only answer to that would be theyre straight.. and Stephen Kings a pedophile.

 

[trinket]

Well, Stephen King is just selectively pushing buttons, which is what any author hopes to do for (to?) their audience. Think about this in nature and biology: Survival of the species and an instinctive sense of protection/nurture for the young of a species is a constant in much of the animal world, so if his young characters experience terrible circumstances it's an easy way to evoke a horrified reaction in the reader at a real base, practically biological, instinctive level. So is setting scenes at night (I mean, in print book form we extrapolate those, in film it's more visceral) where our senses are at a disadvantage and on high alert, goes back to needing to be aware of predators in the night, etc. Easy "base instinct" button-pushing almost might be the line between dreams/reality, being in an alone environment devoid of anyone else, heights, confined spaces, whatever else - and these have all been horror novel and movie staples.

There are other instances in King's books where he has fun in terms of challenging conventions - the young characters end up having more sense or a more sound strategy than the adults, and are actually victorious over the evil.

Also, since everyone (presumably) was a child at one point, and the world is viewed through a smaller perspective with seemingly unfair rules and one can experience everything from trauma to simple ordinary parts of growing up like first heartbreak or whatever, it's a readily accessible fountain to draw material from. I think it's just a dramatic choice for some of these reasons.

 

[Spellbound]

Good point. My only answer to that would be theyre straight.. and Stephen Kings a pedophile.

What an idiotic thing to say.

 

[LatinoSTAR]

he sure looks like a pedophile tho, dont he?? lmao

 

[Kyros Christian]

You still haven't given me good proof as to why Stephen King's a pedophile. I'm sorry but the fact that he had some novels/or movies portraying children in a negative light isn't going to cut it for me.

I just think its weird that blonde, young boys are the focus of victims in all of his movies. If you go to the theatres to see a new King movie, chances are there will be a little blonde boy in it. And as soon as you see that little blonde boy - you know hes going to die. I guess it 5 minutes into the Myst. And when at the near end, this opinion I thought was going to change because the kid survived, 5 minutes before the movie ended King found a way to kill him...

I know he doesnt direct the movies, but its a really weird coincidence. And im sure he oversees the productions if theyre movies based on his books. Am I wrong?

 

[TygreBryte]

I just think its weird that blonde, young boys are the focus of victims in all of his movies. If you go to the theatres to see a new King movie, chances are there will be a little blonde boy in it. And as soon as you see that little blonde boy - you know hes going to die. I guess it 5 minutes into the Myst. And when at the near end, this opinion I thought was going to change because the kid survived, 5 minutes before the movie ended King found a way to kill him...

I know he doesnt direct the movies, but its a really weird coincidence. And im sure he oversees the productions if theyre movies based on his books. Am I wrong?

Hmm, well, that was a spoiler for me for "THE MIST" -- I read the novella when it first came out years ago, and I remember the kid surviving (although it was ambiguous whether or not ANY of them were going to survive at the end of the novella).

I KIND of know what you're talking about, actually. I remember in high school having a discussion with a friend about how he soured on Stephen King after CUJO, because King had said he'd never kill a child protagonist, and the death of a child was central in CUJO. If you look at Salem's Lot, however, one of the protagonists is a young boy. He survives. However, there is an intense relationship between this boy and the adult, male protagonist. When I used to read a lot of Stephen King, I noticed that this dynamic seemed to show up fairly often.

And then, of course, there is "The Body," and the movie derived from it, STAND BY ME. It's really all about boys. But then, King is a man, and that means he was a boy, and since growing up is generally a compelling theme for lots of fiction, I guess it's not too surprising....

Hey. How did you choose your screen name?

 

[Telstra]

i saw some of his movies like "the shining" and "misery" there were no pedophile there.

To accuse someone of pedophile without proof is not good. "pedophile" is a taboo topic for many. If Stephen King read this thread i wonder what he would think of you.

 

[willsboy84]

he sure looks like a pedophile tho, dont he?? lmao

you're just awful for saying that....but you're right
seriously though kyros, if you read all that into Stephen King's work...i'd honestly be more worried about YOU than him. no offense.

 

[Telstra]

you're just awful for saying that....but you're right
seriously though kyros, if you read all that into Stephen King's work...i'd honestly be more worried about YOU than him. no offense.

i guess he find something very disturbing about stephen kings work.
Hope he would explain more and point out 1 or 2 specific scenes about pedophile.

 

[evil_danger]

I've just started reading his books, I started with and have just finished Cell, nothing in there to say he is a pedophile, just that he is a good writer, Duma Key is my next book of his, at 100 pages in it doesn't seem to be lending itself to having young blond boys molested.

 

[screwnutty]

He's only directed one movie. That was Maximum Overdrive.

As for going around and saying that he is this type of person....may I suggest that you pick up a couple of John Saul's books. If you think King is bad...wait till you read saul!

Then we can get a mob together and start a witch hunt and have people burned at the stake for thinking and imagining horrible deeds to people.

Well do it all in the name of god!


man. Somebody has too much time on there hands.

 

[sunoftheskye]

Uh, well, Stephen has said that he bases his books off of his childhood fears. So it only makes sense that bad things would typically happen to children, especially boys, since he was one.

BTW, the ending in the Mist is NOT the same ending as in the book. And just because the boys were blonde in the films, does not mean they were blonde in the novel they were based on.

 

[sunoftheskye]

Good point. My only answer to that would be theyre straight.. and Stephen Kings a pedophile.

That...LITERALLY makes no sense. As far as I know, Stephen King is married, so he is heterosexual as well. But for you to think that someone being straight or gay has anything to do with them being a pedophile, you clearly have a huge misunderstanding of what pedophilia is.

 

[sunoftheskye]

So far he's cited It, Pet Cemetery, The Mist, and Children of the Corn.

 

[Spellbound]

What is the OP talking about?

I'm a long time Stephen King fan and I never noticed that he seems to enjoy hurting young,blond haired boys.

Any chance of you providing an example of what your talking about,you know the titles of the movies your talking about?

The OP is full of crap. He says all Stephen King movies have little blonde boys getting scared in them. Thats ridiculously untrue and stupid.

 

[josher]

Many years ago, after he first became popular (maybe around the time of Pet Sematary [his spelling], in which a young child dies), he gave an interview.

He said that as the father of a young child (his son) his greatest fear was that something terrible would happen to his son. He said that he has used this fear as a plot device in many of his novels, because he felt the adult readers with children would identify with his own fear.

 

[trinket]

Nacreous, well-written and formulated analysis. I hinted at aspects of this in my earlier post in the thread, but I don't think Kyros Christian (or anyone, haha) read it.

If anything, King's continuing to return to "the well" by utilizing children is simply relying on a solid technique that works (for his audience to be appropriately chilled or immediately identify, and him to evoke that) and if there's any criticism it might be that it's laziness or formulaic by now. Certainly not pedophilia. It's something every creative artist wrestles with in what they do - reliable techniques in their comfort zone or which resonate with an audience vs. continual re-invention and challenging one's self. A lot of the time it's new and interesting twists and variants on the same basic staples that can provide some of the most interesting output, or when that thematic idea is exhausted lead to some searching out of other concepts.