The Long Walk
50 teenage boys volunteer for a walking tournament where they are shot if they drop below 3 miles per hour, in this carbon-neutral version of Speed. Based on a 1979 […]
Tag Archives: Stephen King
Carrie
Carrie’s (Sissy Spacek) high school bullies hatch a plan to douse her with pig’s blood on prom night in the 1976 classic they should have called Meat Girls. Based on […]
Creepshow
Drawing on the EC Comics of the 1950s, George A. Romero’s 1982 anthology features five tales from the crypt of Stephen King’s coke-addled imagination. Surprisingly timeless in its ’80s renderings […]
The Innocents (De uskyldige)
A telekinetic child (Alva Brynsmo Ramstad) and her little sister (Rakel Lenora Fløttum) move house in this Scandinavian chiller they should have called Carrie and Alexander. The Innocents has less […]
Salem’s Lot
Old foes come to New England in a 1979 take on Stephen King’s vampire tale. Originally conceived as a movie, Salem’s Lot was expanded to a 3+ hour TV miniseries […]
Gerald’s Game
A kinky couple (Carla Gugino and Bruce Greenwood) drive to an isolated cabin where he has a heart attack while she’s handcuffed to the bed, in this Netflix adaptation of […]
Doctor Sleep
Decades after Jack Torrance showed that all that’s certain in life is death and axes, Danny (now Dan) Torrance (Ewan McGregor) is all grown up and drinking heavily to suppress […]
It Chapter Two
The It crowd is back (the coulrophobic rather than transphobic one) to battle an evil clown in It Chapter Two, or The Continued Decline of James McAvoy. 27 years after […]
The Dark Tower
A boy, Jake (Tom Taylor) has strange visions of another world, where a dark tower keeps darkness at bay (…except its own). When he finds his way there he meets […]
In the Mouth of Madness
Sam Neill investigates the disappearance of a popular horror novelist whose books are making people go crazy, in the third part of John Carpenter’s Apocalypse Trilogy, not to be confused […]
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