MISERY
A highly skilled, if somewhat bland, Stephen King adaptation
Cult Fiction 1: Horror
Until just a few years ago one of the major plusses of collecting horror fiction was that it was incredibly easy, and inexpensive, to acquire. Not anymore!
2022: The Year in Bedlam
The latest installment of my annual Year in Bedlam overview
TV Flashback: KINGDOM HOSPITAL
Stephen King adapts THE KINGDOM, and not very well
Halloween Movies: My Top 20
My 20 favorite Halloween movies (no, NIGHT OF THE DEMONS and HOCUS POCUS aren’t on it)
Peter Straub: 1943-2022
If you’re a reader of horror fiction the chances are better-than-average that you’re at least partially familiar with the writings of Peter Straub
THE TIMEKEEPERS OF ETERNITY
A reworking of the mid-nineties TV miniseries THE LANGOLIERS that transforms it into an unnerving depiction of otherworldly insanity
LITTLE GIRL LOST
In the category of memoirs written by fourteen year olds LITTLE GIRL LOST is about average
CAT’S EYE
A three-parter from the eighties, scripted by Stephen King, that should be better.
THE LAWNMOWER MAN
A 1992 movie that, hard though it might seem to believe thirty years later, once seemed pretty cool