User blog comment:Creeper50/Can a bad idea be done greatly?/@comment-25458443-20161027040505

A better example than the ones you provided (because the ones you provided are kick ass ideas anyway soooo..) is probably the shining.

A psychic kid and his dad go to a haunted hotel where the dad loses his mind and the psychic kid being psychic never becomes relvenent in any way that really justifies the plot point. Eventually the dad remembers he left the oven on and blows up.

But the shining is a FANTASTIC creepy book despite how objectively stupid that plot is. In fact..that sort of logic applies to most stephen king books.

''....evil clown guy turns into a spider and some kids kill him with slingshots. then he comes back when the kids are adults and they kill him with slingshots again''