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BookTok's Most Disturbing Book Is Becoming A Movie...

Marina McBain

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Haunting Adeline, one of BookTok’s most controversial and disturbing dark romance books, is officially being developed into a movie.... and I genuinely think it's one of Hollywood's worst ideas yet.

In this video, I break down what actually happens in H.D. Carlton’s Haunting Adeline, why Zade’s behaviour is repeatedly excused, and how the book turns fear and non-consent into part of the romance. The internet is completely divided over this adaptation and it's time that I talk about it! Is Hollywood taking things too far, or is the backlash completely overblown?

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Contents of this video:

00:00 - Intro
03:55 - Haunting Adeline plot
14:55 - Booktok
22:34 - The movie

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20 Comments

@hiba_la_liba 2 months ago

The fact that people WANT to see this book adapted into a movie when Obsession just came out absolutely baffles me.

@LyxssiSua 1 month ago

People should not be romanticising or defending rape, if Zade was ugly it would be a criminal minds episode

@TisticBlueVA 2 months ago

I think that's ENOUGH making movies glorifying anyone who refuses to take "no" for an answer.

@saveiapfaff 1 month ago

ENOUGH!!!!!!

I just listened to a video of a SA survivor who was sexually tortured being told these same things “you secretly want this” “you’re enjoying this” it’s completely and utterly sick and twisted and should be no where near any screens!!!!!

@atomicmatthew3694 2 months ago

We can't get a book accurate version of Jurassic Park but we can get a movie about a guy that stalks and SAs a woman? What sort of shit is this?

@rudrarajkar1116 1 month ago

All of this is because people lack:-
1) Media literacy
2) Critical thinking
3) Ability to accept that we can be wrong too

@Crucio_Jane-Swiftie 2 months ago

Dark Romance ❌
Abuse ✅

That's not romantic at all!!
I fear that most teenagers will think assault, r@pe and stalking are romantic because of movies and books like this.

@ashketchup5737 1 month ago

This is DISGUSTING. I worked at a mental health facility a few years ago. We had someone come in with PTSD from their ex graping them with a loaded pewpew. That isn't a fantasy. That's someone's trauma, plain and simple. There is something deeply wrong with the person writing this garbage and the people fantasizing over it.

@Whenclemmywas_there 2 months ago

oh and that whole ' he helps women and children from traffickers !!' feels like a weak attempt at that one 'but he volunteers at animal shelters' redeemable bad boy trait

@drishty4956 1 month ago

The most messed up thing is that these kinda books are targeted towards teenage girls.

@xanderfalsetta 2 months ago (edited)

The lack of consent is NOT sexy.

If you want to give your consent to engage in role play that involves the lack of consent, then go for it. Just don't try to force others into it.

@starrhawke 1 month ago

Abuse is NEVER romantic. How disgusting !!!

@rgw7345 1 month ago

"he isn't just a stalker, he's also a vigilante that rescues women from sex trafficking."

I literally laughed out loud that is so dumb. Is that his "heart of gold?" I feel like there's a message about how sociopaths often put themselves in roles that put them near vulnerable people so they can easily manipulate victims, but I doubt the author thought that far ahead.

@LuciaCabralwrites 1 month ago

He kills the guy she likes? And that's supposed to be romantic?

@anupamathakur7005 1 month ago

At first, I thought this book was a horror book, like Stephen King. I was so excited, girl gets her inheritance and discovers her grandmother had secrets, but then I opened the first page. It was disgusting. Disgusting. I can not fathom the idea of someone thinking that can be romantic. Pure horror but the other kind.

@qBunnies 2 months ago

the fact booktok romanticise r*pe is so scary..

@MrNobody-i6i 1 month ago

6:09 remember kids, even a good guy stalker is still a stalker

@foreverconfusedandkindacute 1 month ago

Why cant we just get movies about two average ppl having a mutually respectful and dignified relationship?

@JustanotherJLO 1 month ago (edited)

Stalker/obsessive behavior should NOT be made into a movie and be romanticized… if it is used as a teaching movie to warn women (or men) and call it a psychological horror that would make more sense.💀

@pink_21I 2 months ago (edited)

Women actively glorifying and romanticising rape toward themselves is a new low. I am beyond disgusted.

(To all the people saying its been around for some time, id like to clarify that i meant that more women than ever before, as far as I know, are doing it right now, and theyre more of a "collected group".)