Wish either of those filmmakers would have tackled the remake, gone Kubrick and pushed King "artfully" as opposed to "pop," but I digress. More experimental films have been using it - Midsomer or Hereditary, for example, or Aronofsky movies. This is not very common for horror these days, but I don't think it is non-existant. It starts pretty normal and then, piece-by-piece, the horror builds. Rather, it's structured more like a campfire story. Like the book, it's not a scary-right-off-the-bat horror story, like a slasher movie would be, kill scene at the top. Aside from the obvious (no spoilers) character switch, it was structurally better. First, it doesn't mess with the story, which is great because you don't need to mess with the story. It's older, and maybe stylistically a bit dated, but it's the better version of the two, imo.
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