I have to admit that when I learned that Osgood Perkins (I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House, Longlegs) was working with James Wan on a Stephen King adaptation, I wasn’t optimistic. After all, Wan is at best uneven as a director/producer while I’d argue that there are more mediocre to bad […]
Apparently there’s a new version of Stephen King’s Salems’s Lot, and according to King it’s quite good though for whatever reason Warner Bros. has not released it (in theaters or streaming). Now I can see why Stephen King is concerned, after all it’s not beyond reason to think that maybe the series/movie will not be […]
Alessio Ligouri’s Shortcut is a movie that you don’t see often enough, namely a simple story told well (and at times evocative of Rob Reiner’s Stand by Me – you might have noticed that I didn’t say ‘Stephen King’s Stand by Me‘ because while he may have written The Body, the short story the movie […]
According to Wikipedia, Stephen King has published 60 novels and 200 short stories, which is why it’s so confusing when Hollywood decides to remake one of his novels that has already been made into either a movie or miniseries. Now, if something were done in a particularly mediocre fashion – like The Langoliers or The […]
I can’t necessarily define what a horror movie is for everyone, but by most definitions IT: Chapter 2 isn’t one. It isn’t terribly scary or suspenseful, relies way too much on CGI instead of building atmosphere and tension and at two hours and 49 minutes is way, WAY, too long. Fortunately, it’s good-looking and well-acted […]
You can say a lot of things about Netflix, but they do Stephen King adaptations right. So far they’ve done two, 1922 and Gerald’s Game, and both are really, really good perhaps for the reason that they concentrate on human stories with supernatural overtones, as opposed to supernatural stories that revolve around people. The latest […]
The latest edition of Netflix’s Stranger Things franchise, Stranger Things 3, premiered last Friday and it was fine though there’s a sameness to the proceedings this time around. Part of this sameness is due to the format, which revolves around the adventures of a bunch of young boys growing up (essentially Stephen King’s Stand By […]
The original Children Of The Corn (1984) is a pretty good movie, though the sequels got progressively bad, till we reached Children Of The Corn: Urban Harvest, which is absolutely terrible (See it! It’s fascinatingly bad!) This new version, directed by John Culager, looks decent, though as I mentioned in my review of the trailer, […]
A new trailer for the upcoming reboot of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary dropped a day or two ago, and…it looks pretty good, which is understandable you realize it’s directed by Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer (the directors of the great Starry Eyes). My greatest problem is that the original Pet Sematary (I literally just realized–after […]
A week or so ago I caught The Haunting Of Hill House on Netflix, and I stand by what I said then, namely Mike Flanagan is the best horror director working today. More recently I rewatched The Shining and realized both movies are remarkably similar. An overhead shot of the hedge maze on the grounds […]
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