Anybody familiar with the movie or book of Stephen King's Misery? (spoilers)
I just watched it. How come Kathy Bates is known and tried for killing babies in the hospital but she isn't in prison. In the movie he finds a scrapbook detailing all the murders and the sheriff finds how she quoted the Misery character at her trial.
Was she found innocent? Did the book explain more?
by Anonymous | reply 16 | February 2, 2020 6:08 AM
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From the character's Wiki.
While serving as head maternity nurse at a Boulder, Colorado hospital, several infants in her care died under mysterious circumstances. She was tried for their deaths, but she was acquitted for lack of evidence.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 1 | September 9, 2019 12:49 AM
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R1 of all the screencaps....😣
by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 9, 2019 5:22 AM
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Yeah. R2, I’ve been trying to forget those images since I first saw them. An ugly, ugly film.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 9, 2019 5:37 AM
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R3 uglier than The Shining?
by Anonymous | reply 4 | September 9, 2019 12:15 PM
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Choose your uglies...Jack with an axe, Kathy with a butcher knife, or James Caan bringing a typewriter down on a head (cue pumpkin squash):UGLY!
by Anonymous | reply 5 | September 9, 2019 7:01 PM
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O my god, I forgot about that bathtub lady. That’s just...SICK!!!
by Anonymous | reply 6 | September 9, 2019 7:04 PM
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R6 I did too before someone else mentioned her on another thread.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | September 10, 2019 1:32 AM
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Annie didn't look like the type to maintain a cultivated and trim pubic bush.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | February 1, 2020 11:04 PM
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Killer nurses have existed forever. It's easier for a hospital to put two and two together and kick them out then to get them prosecuted, which would publicly embarrass the hospital and create so many potential lawsuits that the entire hospital could go bankrupt.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | February 2, 2020 12:00 AM
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I always imagine the instagay stalkers (*ahem*, sorry, I mean "fans") on here as Annie Wilkes.
Chaining their little barely legal obsessions to a bed and hobbling them before forcing them to take shirtless selfies--you know, demonstrating the creation of their "art" and "talent" in-person.
It would be harder to bludgeon someone with a smartphone than with a typewriter though...
by Anonymous | reply 10 | February 2, 2020 1:02 AM
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[Quote] It would be harder to bludgeon someone with a smartphone than with a typewriter though...
I'm sure Russell Crowe would find a way.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | February 2, 2020 1:10 AM
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i find most of King's books to be unreadable. Misery was the exception. great book, great movie.
he is an amazing story creator. just i find his writing lacking something.
Dolores Claiborne is also his, and A Good Marriage. he is really good at the psychological suspense ones.
i really tried to like his other stuff. don't know what is wrong with me.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | February 2, 2020 1:53 AM
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Pardon me, R5, but sledgehammer on ankles? I almost pass out thinking about it.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | February 2, 2020 3:31 AM
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In the book she doesn’t sledgehammer his ankles. She uses an axe to cut off his left foot. He also looses a thumb in the book.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | February 2, 2020 5:11 AM
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Kathy was great, but for some reason in my head I always wonder what Frances Bavier (ca. her Andy Griffith Show age) could've done with the role.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | February 2, 2020 6:08 AM
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