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Off topic: Though Will is better known for his role in Star Trek, my favorite work of his is a low budget film from the 80’s called The Curse. It is an adapta

Off topic: Though Will is better known for his role in Star Trek, my favorite work of his is a low budget film from the 80’s called The Curse. It is an adaptation of HP Lovecraft’s Color Out of Space, and IMO it’s the best Lovecraft adaptation ever made. (trust me, I’ve seen a lot)

shkkmo 4y ago
Will specifically calls out The Curse in the article: > the physical and psychological abuse she witnessed firsthand when she made me and my sister do The Curse. So you comment isn't so much off topic, but is a bit tone deaf.
- divs1210 4y ago
  Ouch. I’m sorry he had to go through that.
  - sdoering 4y ago
    In his current book 'Still just a geek' he describes the actual experience in more detail. While listening to him reading his book I was torn between wanting to throw up and wanting to punch something. The cuts on his sisters face in the movie? Actual real cuts. Administered by the crew. Just to summarize one example he describes. It was heart wrenching.
    - 9991 4y ago
      Nobody involved figured out that cutting children's faces was wrong? The 80s must have been a wild time to be alive.
jwilk 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Curse_(1987_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Curse_(1987_film) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092809/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092809/
jonjacky 4y ago
Will Wheaton was impressively good in the popular 1986 movie Stand By Me, also with River Phoenix and Kiefer Sutherland. I believe this was the role that made him famous, years before Star Trek. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_by_Me_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_by_Me_(film)
- divs1210 4y ago
  Oh, I forgot Will was in that one! Stand By Me is one of my favorites! Crazy that’s a Stephen King adaptation! I liked Joaquin Phoenix’s brother’s character better in that film, though. He plays a child from an unstable family. He died an untimely death :(.

shkkmo 4y ago

Will specifically calls out The Curse in the article: > the physical and psychological abuse she witnessed firsthand when she made me and my sister do The Curse. So you comment isn't so much off topic, but is a bit tone deaf.

divs1210 4y ago
Ouch. I’m sorry he had to go through that.
- sdoering 4y ago
  In his current book 'Still just a geek' he describes the actual experience in more detail. While listening to him reading his book I was torn between wanting to throw up and wanting to punch something. The cuts on his sisters face in the movie? Actual real cuts. Administered by the crew. Just to summarize one example he describes. It was heart wrenching.
  - 9991 4y ago
    Nobody involved figured out that cutting children's faces was wrong? The 80s must have been a wild time to be alive.

jwilk 4y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Curse_(1987_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Curse_(1987_film) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092809/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092809/

jonjacky 4y ago

Will Wheaton was impressively good in the popular 1986 movie Stand By Me, also with River Phoenix and Kiefer Sutherland. I believe this was the role that made him famous, years before Star Trek. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_by_Me_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_by_Me_(film)

divs1210 4y ago
Oh, I forgot Will was in that one! Stand By Me is one of my favorites! Crazy that’s a Stephen King adaptation! I liked Joaquin Phoenix’s brother’s character better in that film, though. He plays a child from an unstable family. He died an untimely death :(.