Tag Archives: Stephen King

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 ...

On November 18, 1990 – one day after my tenth birthday – the miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s It aired on ABC. It concluded two nights later, and left a newly-minted 10-year-old terrified even further of both spiders and clowns ...

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 ...

The new documentary, De Palma, opens with a timeless scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. Apropos for a study on the career of Brian De Palma. His connection to Hitchcock’s legacy is firmly entrenched. This, of course, has been heavily propelled ...

Been waiting for this one for a while.  The feature film adaptation of Stephen King’s excellent technology gone amok tale THE CELL is heading our way via VOD and limited theatrical run on July 8th – with a handful of ...