STEPHEN KING WEEK: Silver Bullet (1985)
Silver Bullet may be based on King’s Cycle of the Werewolf, but there are so many deviations and changes from the story, one could say that they’re both stories about a werewolf in a small town and get away with it. It’s probably best to experience both of them, as they cover some of the same story […]
STEPHEN KING WEEK: Needful Things (1993)
Leland Gaunt has come the whole way from Akron to Castle Rock to open an antique store called “Needful Things.” Everything he sells gives you exactly what you want, but you need to pay him back with a favor. If that’s not the most Stephen King sentence ever — minus 50’s slang like daddy-o or […]
STEPHEN KING WEEK: Sleepwalkers (1992)
What’s a sleepwalker? How about shapeshifting energy vampires that survive off the energy of virgins, who can cast illusions, move things with their minds and transform into werecats? Oh yeah and their biggest weakness is cats, who can see them and kill them with their claws. And before we forget, the only way the males […]
STEPHEN KING WEEK: Maximum Overdrive (1986)
After seeing other people direct his work, Stephen King was probably pretty unsatisfied with the results. He famously disagreed with the direction that Stanley Kubrick took The Shining, after all. In 1986, thanks to Dino De Laurentiis, he got to direct this ode to insanity, based on his short story Trucks (which has also been made into a […]
STEPHEN KING WEEK: Cat’s Eye (1985)
Cat’s Eye takes three Stephen King stories, “Quitters, Inc.”, “The Ledge” (both from Night Shift) and “General,” an original story. The three tales are connected by a cat, who is involved in the first two stories but becomes the main character in the final part of the film. That cat starts as a stray who is chased by […]
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