I love this movie!!! There are differences from the book, however I think that the changes were perfectly placed so that even knowing the story I still jumped out of my seat a few times. My husband is not big on scary movies so the touch of comedy was also great. He enjoyed a movie that he normally would not have gone to. we laughed, we cried, and saw some things that came out of our nightmares as well as giving us some new ones. All around great movie.