Paranoid (II) (2000) User Reviews

Monodrama

[Bored_Dragon · 5/10 · 16 July 2020]

I came across this short film while digging for screen adaptations of Stephen King's work. This is not a classic adaptation, but a seven-minute monodrama in which Tonya Ivey recites and acts King's poem of the same name. The reviews I came across were mostly extremely positive, but, honestly, to me, this was pretty much pointless.

5/10

Nice chant.

[Eltredor · 9/10 · 23 April 2002]

Nice short movie which only takes a little bit more than 5 minutes, with end titles near 8 minutes. I liked it because it was so strange, nothing really happens, but the story and how it was filmed is great. You should download this short adaption from Stephen King from it's official site.

Good adaption, definately worthwile

[mad22 · 10/10 · 31 March 2002]

I think this is a very good adaption. It is only seven minutes, the text is just the original text and the images are very dark in a broad sence of the word en match very good with the narration. It's definately worth seeing, especially since it is a free download (70 MB) from the official website. You'll get a good widescreen version that is hi-res!

Superb adaptation of Stephen King poem

[sspignesi · 10/10 · 15 January 2001]

This short film is a visual interpretation of Stephen King's poem "Paranoid: A Chant" from his SKELETON CREW collection. The script is the text of the poem itself and the movie portrays a woman's terrifying descent into madness as she imagines being watched and listened to and followed. Director Jay Holben and star Tonya Ivey do an excellent job with the material and once seen, this celluloid nightmare is not easily forgotten.

A Paranoid Experience

[giffenbob · 23 March 2003]

This is one of the true weird, bizarre, just different of the many King-adaptations existing. Of the dollar-babies I've seen, this is the best. It's based on King's poem from Skeleton Crew, his second collection from 1985, and is one of the most effective poems I've ever read.

It's a cool concept having the paranoid narrator be a woman. I don't know why, but I always pictured a man, while reading the poem. All the lines from the poem is here, and you really feel for this poor woman, but hey, she's creepy, too. And the shifts between color and black and white is superbly done, the black and white sequences apparently being the narrator's delusions. Or maybe not. Not all people might like this short film, but for true King-fans and true film-fans, it's a must-see.