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In an alternate history, with America emerging from a modern civil war, a special event allows one lucky citizen to win anything they want. A lottery selects fifty people, supposedly at random, to take part in a ‘walk’ from which there can be only one winner. The catch? All...
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It’s 1962 and in the unbecoming town of Derry, Maine, the ‘business as usual’ maxim remains at odds with a strange, unsettling undercurrent that appears to have plagued the area for longer than many inhabitants can – or care to – remember. Young Matty Clements becomes the latest child...
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Dramas – indeed every story – can largely be considered collections of decisions, the whys of their making and the consequences of them thereafter. Stephen King is a master of the genre, oft-described as a writer of horror, but more accurately a scribe of those razor-sharp and karmic after-effects....
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Two years ago, Scott Landon (Clive Owen) – the acclaimed mystery horror writer – was gunned down, leaving his wife Lisey (Julianne Moore) with only her memories of their life together. Physically, Lisey is well taken care of, a home an estate and her everyday needs met. But there...
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Stephen King’s original novel IT was a weighty tome coming in at over a 1000 pages and detailed the way that a demonic-entity – who has the persona of a clown named Pennywise – terrorises a group of young kids (‘The Losers Club’) and then years later when they all return...
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Back in 1994 America’s ABC network ran a four-episode limited series, on consecutive nights, based on the acclaimed Stephen King story, The Stand featuring the likes of Gary Sinise, Molly Ringwald and and Rob Lowe in key roles. King’s story deals with an post-apocalyptic take between the possible personfications of good...
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As even the most casual of Stephen King fans know, a lot of his stories take place in or around the town of Castle Rock, the fictional Maine enclave which has seen murderous clowns, possessed cars, rabid dogs and no shortage of dead bodies and deadly intents. So perhaps...