Wow! I had never heard this story before so the ending was quite a shock! Wonderful storytelling ❤❤❤

Kurt Barlow the vampire from Salems lot scared the heck outta me as a kid including the glick boys floating outside the window scratching terroized me as well! 😂😂

King always puts enough spine on the story to give you that sense of the familiar and then he pulls the rug from under you.

This is King's best short story imo! The Twilight Zone did an awesome adaptation of this short, chills me to this day lol!

As someone who grew up a few miles from an ocean I always viewed lakes and ponds as disgusting like swimming in a mud puddle also I think about leeches and snapping turtles

I always wondered if maybe Carrie White's father was a part of these experiments or that "the Shine" is a product from them.... I agree that this is an underrated gem!!! Great storytelling, good sir! Cheers

The topless scene with LaVerne was hot while it llasted

Hope you get many more subscribers! Love listening to your videos as I fall asleep :) (so I really appreciate you not screaming or putting in loud noises etc😅) Thank you! ❤

I had Skeleton Crew. I think Nona was my favorite, but the story that scared me the most was The Jaunt.

8:11 This spot here when it switches to stop motion as it engulfs him -always reminded me of 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 scene in Superman III, when the supercomputer assimilates Vera. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gp11pdZpqavemZ8.htmlsi=-xp2YWT6SnVH6OiS

I read The Raft when I was 12. Story scared the hell out of me, and that was 27 years ago. Still remember it very, very well. Never saw Creepshow 2, though.

This one stuck with me when I was a kid, the story I read in my teens. I felt the Creepshow version did it justice.

This short was the piece of horror that scared the bejesus out of me as a child and stuck with me. Ok, well… this and Frankenhooker. In retrospect I probably shouldn’t have watched that as a 9 year old.

This is the best "deep dive" /review youtube has to offer for THE RAFT, my fav short story from stephen king. The weird thing is i thought i saw this exact video 2 years (or more) ago...and i didnt leave a comment? I saw creepshow 2 at around 3am on superchannel in 1987 for the first time and ive been obsessed since. Didnt read the short story till around 1992 when i accidentally fell upon it while reading skeleton crew...as soon as i read the first paragraph i just knew it was the same raft story. While i read it, i had the visual from the movies characters to help my imagination along...man was i disappointed at the ending not being the same. That line "i beat you!" stuck out the most for me as a kid because i was already a huge horror fan at age 12, and i found that in most cases you aint beating anything. P.S. oh i just saw the description now "RE-UPLOAD". Gread review bro, watching it a second time was worth it!

I love The shinning so much, one of my favorite of King's works, and Dr. Sleep IMO is the best book King has ever written.

The reanimated people in Pet Semetary, specifically the book version probably scared me the most.

Great review. One of my favs from the creepshows. One reason I always liked it is my name is Deke. Rarely ever hear the name. Never met another one. Only a few in tv and movies. This one stood out to me because of the isolation, what is the creature, how did it get there, ect.

microphone needs to be closer to mouth.

Excellent!

If you get the chance, maybe do a video on Eyes of the Dragon... an excellent King book that stands out from the rest... it's set in the "castle and knights" time, and plays well with the extended Kingiverse

My favorite so far!!

There is another King short story about a car that eats people; sometimes I wonder if this is an evolved form of the Raft creature?

I had to pause when I got 15:09. This is awesome. I'm binging on your channel right now. Thanks!

Your character being the student jack assaulted is brilliant

just found this channel today because of the overlook strange resort video and have been binging every video since. I LOVE Stephen King. This channel is amazing!

Having watched Cujo as a young child I appreciate that Tad didn’t die. The movie was already intense and that probably would’ve scarred me! Now as an adult the book’s ending makes way more sense. I work in the medical field and now know that their is no way a small child could survive that long without food and water in an unventilated hot car. Cars essentially become ovens in the summer when they just sit in the hot sun 😔😣 Stephen King’s ending as devastating as it is, is just more in line with reality.

Not the creature itself, but the story Gray Matter. Though the idea of a guy turning into a fungus mobster was bad enough. It was how the smell in the hallway was described. I could actually smell it. I had to stop reading for a minute to calm my stomach.

For a "blob" horror story can i suggest "JAM" by Ben Crawshaw? The horrors of instant kill blob and various zombie apocalypse style surviver groups.

The question "Do you love?" is one central to human existence. Does God/the creator of this existence love? Do our parents love us? Does our spouse love us? Do our siblings and friends love us? Ultimately, King is answering that question with a "No!" His story "The Raft" is all about appetites. Randy had an appetite for Deke's girlfriend. Randy's girl had an appetite for Deke. The monster had an appetite for all of them. No one in the story loved...they were all merely driven by their appetites. This is one of mankind's greatest fears.

I watched Salem’s Lot with my dad when I was younger and I fell asleep twice…not sure what that says about me I’ve also never seen the entirety of the IT movies because I also kept falling asleep… Again, not sure what this says about me

Guess crude petroleum oil finally got sentience and became a creature in a small Southern US creek and targeted teens to devour. Can't see we as humans don't deserve it.

Brainless Rubbish

"A secret branch of the of the United States government built a laboratory." The NIH?

I member this story. And the guy makes a run at the end but it makes a wave. Member?

You. Sir. Are amazing.

I didn’t start reading Stephen King until maybe high school and really got into it in my early twenties. But I did see the It series since before I was ten. Then other movies as a teen and I can only say most of them were definitely flops.