Slippi on 12/3/2006 at 14:03
If you've ever read the book (or watched the film, only seen some of that so don't know) you'll understand the comparisons.
It's about a hotel called The Overlook Mansion (Achem, ring any bells - I forgot about that until this morning!) which seems to have a soul (same as the cradle) - and once you are inside it "takes" you (As the cradle, once you are outside it cannot "touch" you).
I didn't sleep much so i've forgotten much of what I wanted to say, do you think they have taken inspiration from it?
Fig455 on 12/3/2006 at 17:49
Quote Posted by Slippi
do you think they have taken inspiration from it?
You seem to have answered your own question ;)
Slippi on 12/3/2006 at 20:29
Quote Posted by Fig455
You seem to have answered your own question ;)
Nice to hear from other people..
ganac on 12/3/2006 at 20:38
Never mind. Waffles.
Yametha on 12/3/2006 at 21:54
I never eat waffles :cheeky:
Slippi on 12/3/2006 at 22:00
lol, idiots.
agateauthor on 13/3/2006 at 03:49
Quote Posted by Slippi
If you've ever read the book (or watched the film, only seen some of that so don't know) you'll understand the comparisons.
It's about a hotel called The Overlook Mansion (Achem, ring any bells - I forgot about that until this morning!) which seems to have a soul (same as the cradle) - and once you are inside it "takes" you (As the cradle, once you are outside it cannot "touch" you).
I didn't sleep much so i've forgotten much of what I wanted to say, do you think they have taken inspiration from it?
Coming from someone who's read the novel 7 times and owns the superior 1997 mini-series, (fie on Stanley Kubrick I say!) I must say that the only inspiration they might have taken would be the fact that the building is an entity in itself, and the idea that if you die inside it, you become part of it. The similarities end there though, as the ghosts in The Overlook couldn't physically hurt anybody. The real horror is in watching a man who is desperately trying to get his life back on track slowly being driven out of his mind by those ghosts and manipulated into attacking his family.
Better comparisons to Shalebridge Cradle would be House on Haunted Hill '99 (the house resides on the upper levels of a sanitarium where the doctor was doing all kinds of questionable therapies, before the whole thing burned and was rebuilt. It also used the Jacob's Ladder sped-up-twitching to great effect.) or MTV's FEAR (which showcased some truly creepy locations). It also reminded me heavily of the creepy hospital/sanitarium motif that showed up in all 4 Silent Hill games, which in itself was a nod to Jacob's Ladder.
Taffer36 on 13/3/2006 at 04:12
Heeeeeeere's Jack!
Having never played The Cradle, I can say that I never would have imagined The Shining and Thief being connected in any way...
Um... they're both classics. Does that count as similarity?
P.S. Should I go read the book?
