Tag: Stephen King

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Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – ‘Salem’s Lot

Directed by Gary Dauberman and based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, ‘Salem’s Lot follows writer Ben Mears (Lewis Pullman) who returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem’s Lot in search of inspiration, only to discover his hometown is being preyed upon by a vampire, leading him to band together with a

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Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – The Boogeyman

Directed by Rob Savage and based on the short story by Stephen King, The Boogeyman follows the story of high school student Sadie Harper (Sophie Thatcher) and her little sister Sawyer (Vivien Lyra Blair), who are still reeling from the recent death of their mother. Devastated by his own pain, their father Will (Chris Messina),

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Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Firestarter (2022)

Directed by Keith Thomas and based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, Firestarter follows a couple who desperately try to hide their daughter, Charlie (Ryan Kiera Armstrong), from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for turning fire into a weapon of mass destruction. Her father (Zac Efron)

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: If It Bleeds

Reality was deep, and it was far. It held many secrets and went on forever. It’s time for the annual Spooky Books month! The entire month of October will be devoted to reviews of scary reads: new horror, classic horror, and at least one book that’s been out for a while but I haven’t read

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TV & Movies
llyzabeth

Binary System Podcast – Watch Party #7 – The Shining

It’s time yet again to Social Distance the heck out of this epidemic and watch a movie together while still staying in three different states: North Carolina, Florida, and California. Next up for the Tri-State Watch Party, we’re going with The Shining. (With multiple references to the Simpsons’ version too.) The Netflix Watch Party app ended

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: The Institute

The blue caretakers came for her in the night and they saw her no more. It’s two days until Halloween, and what’s more appropriate for the final week of Spooky Book Month than the latest Stephen King novel? Luke Ellis has what can only be described as the perfect life. At twelve years old he’s

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Kathryn Adams

Review: Elevation

Hands on a clock, numbers on a bathroom scale, weren’t they only ways of trying to measure invisible forces that had visible effects? A feeble effort to corral some greater reality beyond what mere humans thought of as reality? Stephen King’s latest work is more of a modern-day fable than a novel.  It’s also a

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Review: IT

The Stephen king novel IT was released in 1986, followed by the famous 1990 miniseries that has since become a cult classic, mostly due to the chilling performance by Tim Curry as Pennywise the Dancing Clown. Overall the miniseries works as a TV movie based on a King novel even with the budgetary and technology restrictions

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