Tag Archives: Stephen King

The early nineties though, were an odd time for horror films, though there were obvious exceptions such as the nifty original Candyman (1992), the opening of that decade wasn’t exactly awash with classic scares. Coppola’s instantly dated foray into the ...

I was sitting in a golf cart with Frank Darabont one day during the filming of The Green Mile, talking Stephen King with him while waiting for a shot to be set up.  “What’s your favorite King novel?” he asked ...

Bullies have played a significant and recurring role in Stephen King’s work from his earliest days as a published author. In these works, the bullies represent a significant and (generally) familiar villain for his protagonist(s) to overcome, often amid their ...

Bram Stoker’s Dracula contains many underriding themes, but one of the most obvious, certainly one of the most talked about, is the heavy element of xenophobia that the author injected into the text. Dracula is, after all, about a foreign ...

33 years after the film adaptation of Stephen King’s Children of the Corn (1984) flooded audiences with the misguided religious beliefs and cult-like antics of the sinister Isaac (John Franklin) and Malachi (Courtney Gains), Arrow Video presents an extraordinary must-own ...

Lewis Teague’s 1983 big screen translation of Stephen King’s Cujo is often overshadowed by higher profile works like Carrie (1976) or The Shining (1980), stylish renditions directed by venerated directors Stanley Kubrick and Brian De Palma. Teague’s interpretation, however, is ...

Previously on this site, I reviewed author Bracken MacLeod’s first collection of short stories, 13 Views of the Suicide Woods. He’s proven himself to be prolific: his novel Stranded (optioned for a Warner Brothers TV show) was released just last ...

  Based on the Stephen King novella “Cycle of the Werewolf”, Silver Bullet (1985) is an enjoyable eighties entry in the post-Howling period, however the film could have been far more interesting and poetic if director Daniel Attias was keenly ...

Horror connoisseurs may well be familiar with Stephen King’s debut novel, Carrie (1974). As the story goes, the eponymous Carrie, our anti-heroine, is a loser teenage girl who develops kinaesthetic powers and uses them to terrorize the population of her ...

In my opinion, Creepshow 2 has never gotten the recognition it has deserved.  Granted, it had a huge legacy to live up to  – and it did just that and for but some reason it just never seemed to reach ...