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The Running Man is the fourth and final adaptation of a Stephen King story. This time, it’s a big-budget dystopian film with Edgar Wright directing. In the near future, The Network controls America. They have run down safety regulations, attempts to unionise are crushed, and the masses are fed a diet of brutal game shows. […]
The Long Walk is a retro-dystopian film based on a Stephen King novel, which he wrote under his Richard Bachman pseudonym. The United States has suffered war, military dictatorship, and economic depression. This has led the government to introduce an annual competition where a boy from each state must compete in “The Long Walk.” The […]
Mike Flanagan adapts a Stephen King story for the third time with The Life of Chuck. He steps out of his horror comfort zone. The Life of Chuck is a film split into three acts. “Thanks, Chuck” shows an ex-married couple, Marty Anderson (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and Felicia Gordon (Karen Gillan), just as the world suffers […]
The Monkey is a darkly comic offering from the pantheon of Stephen King adaptations. This film is the follow-up of Osgood Perkins’ sleeper hit, Longlegs. In 1999 twin brothers Hal and Bill Shelburn (Christian Convery/Theo James) find a toy monkey amongst their father’s possessions. When the boys use The Monkey people they know die and […]
Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot gets its third adaptation, with Gary Dauberman directing his second film and James Wan acting as a producer. Ben Mears (Lewis Pullman) is a writer who returns to his hometown of Jerusalem’s Lot, Maine. He plans to use his time to research and write his next novel. However, his time back […]
The Boogeyman is based on a Stephen King short story of the same name. This time childhood fears and grief are explored as a family battle a monster. The Harpers are suffering from grief after a drunk driver killed the family matriarch. Sadie (Sophie Thatcher) has become overly attached to her mother’s possessions and wears her […]
Blumhouse, the horror production company, make their first adaptation of a Stephen King, with their version of Firestarter. Charlie McGee (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) is an 11-year-old girl who struggles with her pyrokinetic powers. After a bullying incident in school Charlie’s powers get exposed and force the girl to go on the run with her father (Zac […]
Lisey’s Story has one of the best television casts ever constructed: Julianne Moore, Clive Owen, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Joan Allen, Ron Cephas Jones, Dane Dehaan, Michael Pitt. I mean, come on, three of those actors in a show would be incredible, but all of them? It’s an embarrassment of riches! And each one is acting […]
In 1982, horror icons George A. Romero, Stephen King, and Tom Savini collaborated to create one of the greatest horror anthologies ever made. Creepshow set itself apart from other anthologies through its unique direction, creative stories, and masterful special effects. Now, almost 40 years later, the torch has been passed on to an understudy of […]
In recent years there has been a renaissance in adapting Stephen King’s work. 2019 seeing three cinematic adaptations of King novels. Doctor Sleep completed the year and it was a film that had to honour King’s work and Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of The Shining. After the events at the Overlook Hotel Dan Torrance (Ewan McGregor) has become […]