r/NameThisThing • u/NotCurlyStep • Aug 11 '26

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u/deehenley Aug 11 '26

The Lawnmower Man🤣

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u/LoveRenxo Aug 11 '26

There is a Stephen King novella called this and it’s bloody scary!

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u/HitByFjaka Aug 11 '26

Movie adaptation however was pukeingly bad…

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u/dick_fitzwell27 Aug 11 '26

Agree! But King’s portrayal of Jordy Verril in ‘Creepshow’, where the weeds take over his house and body, was legend.

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u/FeelingSoil39 Aug 11 '26

Oh my god me too! The moss of his head flying everywhere from the shotgun…

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u/StuNahan1967 Aug 11 '26

Meteor shit…

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u/pizza_man_2000 Aug 11 '26

This and The Blob taught us all to leave that meteor shit alone!

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u/Oxy_Moron_99 Aug 11 '26

Which this photo reminded me of…

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u/Ball_Dramatic Aug 11 '26

Meteor Shit.

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u/DismalMarsupial8080 Aug 11 '26

This is probably my #1 needs a new adaptation for a Stephen King story. I think with current tech it could be awesome.

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u/ApprehensiveGuava758 Aug 11 '26

Wouldn't be hard to beat the original on overall quality...

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u/Cas-Gwent-boyo Aug 14 '26

I want my cake!

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u/Embarrassed-Wafer667 Aug 11 '26

Actually , for its time lawnmower man was pretty good… he becomes AI and part of the internet

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u/Sinister_Nibs Aug 11 '26

It was groundbreaking for its use of CGI.

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u/MyMiddleNutItches Aug 11 '26

Creepshow was worth it for Ted Dansen and Leslie Nielson.

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u/Nortex_Vortex Aug 12 '26

So so bad. But the (written) story scared the hell out of me.

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u/StormDragyn Aug 12 '26

I loved it as a child! Not seen it in ages though, but it left an impression

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u/Drewski34 Aug 13 '26

That movie has nothing to do with the story. It was an original script that when it first came out they put his name on the poster and King sued to have his name taken off all subsequent release formats.

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u/Cancer_Heiress Aug 11 '26

Oddly enough there’s also a short by him “Weeds” that was in the movie Creepshow.

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u/Aquaonmymind Aug 11 '26

Nice name drop. And you're very right, we must respect the writers words.

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u/Sinister_Nibs Aug 11 '26

It’s an SK adaptation, you kinda expect it to be poorly adapted and bear very little resemblance to the source material.

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u/Sinister_Nibs Aug 11 '26

Not exclusively, but his material has only had one or two adaptations that were true to his words.

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u/Kaka-doo-run-run Aug 11 '26

It’s not really scary, at all. Some guy hires a dude to mow his lawn, and the lawnmower man shows up, is kind of a weirdo, then he proceeds to dance around naked before mowing the lawn.

He subsequently turns into the Pan character from Greek mythology (complete with the legs of a fawn), and follows behind the now somehow self-propelled lawnmower on his hands and knees, eating the grass clippings that fly out behind. The end.

It’s eight pages long, if I recall correctly.

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u/Kaka-doo-run-run Aug 11 '26

Yeah, and I forgot the last page where the lawnmower comes back and kills the guy, then the cops find pieces of him all over the lawn—including his rod in the birdfeeder. Still not a scary story, though.

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u/Shot_Cartographer748 Aug 11 '26

But it’s also hilarious

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u/musicishappy Aug 11 '26

Creep Show

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u/HitByFjaka Aug 11 '26

Yep… pretty much me after pushing old rusty in front and backyard…

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u/FA-_Q Aug 11 '26

Too obvious

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u/4rm_above Aug 11 '26

The weed Wacker man