Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival: King On Screen (2022)

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Starting with Carrie, Stephen King was adapted by more than fifty directors and eighty or more films and series were filmed. The beauty of King On Screen is that it brings together nearly every living director who worked on these films, including Tom Holland (The Langoliers, Thinner), Mick Garris (The Stand, Sleepwalkers), Frank Darabont (The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption, The Mist), Taylor Hackford (Dolores Claiborne), Mike Flanagan (Dr. Sleep, Gerald’s Game), Mark Lester (Firestarter), Mikael Håfström (1408), Josh Boone (The Stand), Tom McLoughlin (Sometimes They Come Back), Lewis Teague (Cujo, Cat’s Eye), Fraser C. Heston (Needful Things), Craig R. Baxley (Storm of the Century, Rose Red, Kingdom Hospital), Mikael Salomon (Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King), Scott Hicks (Hearts In Atlantis), David Carson (Carrie 2002), John Harrison (Creepshow, Creepshow 2), Zak Hilditch (1922), Greg Nicotero (Shudder’s Creepshow), Vincenzo Natali (In the Tall Grass), Tod Williams (Cell) and so many more.

Director Daphné Baiwir starts this with a sequence that takes you directly into nearly every one of King’s stories. If you love the author, you’ll have so much fun going back in and out of this scene to see how many references you can catch. My wife is a fan, so she was excited to see Jeffrey DeMunn show up, as he was in The Shawshank Redemption, Storm of the Century, The Green Mile and The Mist.

Don’t expect anyone to knock on any of these movies. Well, the movie likes The Shining TV movie more than Kubrick’s, but these are all friends of King. However, if you’re watching this, there’s a significant chance that you don’t have too many bad things to say about any Stephen King movies.

The part of this that I loved the most was the part about Tom Hanks, as Frank Darabont discussed how giving he is to everyone on set.

You can learn more about this film at the official website and Twitter and Instagram pages.

I watched this film as part of The Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN). You can learn more at their official site.