Rating: PG13
Genre:
Horror
Release Date: 05/14/2002
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol
Sound: DD5.1/DS
Run Time: 254 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Lions Gate
Horror specialist
Stephen King claimed that his TV miniseries
Rose Red was inspired by a number of sources, ranging from
Shirley Jackson's
The Haunting of Hill House (twice filmed as
The Haunting) to
Ripley's Believe It or Not to
Moby Dick. Residents of San Jose, CA, however, quickly realized that
King's story owed a great deal to their own city's legendary "haunted" mansion, Winchester House.
Rose Red was set in motion when psych professor
Joyce Reardon (
Nancy Travis), defying her tongue-clucking boss
Professor Miller (
David Dukes, who died during production), set about to investigate reports of paranormal phenomena in Rose Red, a crumbling and foreboding Seattle mansion. According to legend -- and a great deal of physical evidence -- Rose Red was a "living" entity in its own right, adding extras wings to its structure and rearranging its furniture whenever it felt like it. There has also been a number of mysterious deaths at the mansion, which
Joyce believed were the handiwork of a ghost:
Ellen Rimbauer, the insane wife of Rose Red's architect. Inviting a quintet of psychics (social misfits all, of course) to spend a weekend at the mansion,
Joyce was determined to solve the mystery of Rose Red -- and, she hoped, to conjure up
Ellen's hostile spirit. Thereafter, the miniseries adhered to the proven formula, with characters foolishly wandering off alone to meet their individual demises, and with such time-tested lines as "Superstitious nonsense!," "Honey -- are you in there?" and "Oh, no! AIYEEEE!" wafting through the mansion's drafty corridor. The outcome of the story -- and the fate of the survivors -- seemed to rest in the hands of
Annie Wheaton (
Kimberly J. Brown), an autistic teenager with astonishing telepathic skills. Premiering January 27, 2002, the three-part
Rose Red posted
ABC's best ratings in months, despite an almost universal drubbing by the critics.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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