CHRISTINE **** USA 1983 Dir: John Carpenter. 110 mins Carpenter followed the critical and commercial failure of THE THING with the safer option of a Stephen King adaptation in a prolific period for big budget King movies. Its strongest asset is Keith Gordon’s interpretation of one of King’s outcast teens:…
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THE RUNNING MAN **** USA 1987 Dir: Paul Michael Glaser. 100 mins Adapted from the ROLLERBALL-influenced novella by Stephen King (as Richard Bachman), this unfolds in the future Hell of 2017. Art is mass-censored, the world economy has collapsed, food riots are commonplace and the most popular TV series is…
Released in cinemas in 1982, CREEPSHOW is typically regarded as a minor entry both in the film output of George A. Romero and the adaptations of the works of Stephen King. Yet this lack of critical attention hides the fact that CREEPSHOW is the only full collaboration between America’s bestselling horror author…
IDW Publishing is proud to announce the early 2020 launch of Sleeping Beauties, a captivating comic book series based on the bestselling novel by Stephen King and Owen King. Author Rio Youers (The Forgotten Girl) and artist Alison Sampson (Winnebago Graveyard) will adapt the rich narrative of Sleeping Beauties to…
PET SEMATARY **** USA 1989 Dir: Mary Lambert. 103 mins Stephen King’s “Pet Sematary” (1983) is perhaps his darkest hour, taking the shocking child death of his earlier “Cujo” (1981) to its natural next stage: an oppressively grim, “Monkey’s Paw”-inspired study of a nice family man who goes to extreme…