On the way from HBO Max is a series titled “Welcome to Derry,” which will serve as a prequel to the two Stephen King movies from Andy Muschietti. Speaking with Variety, HBO Max head of originals Sarah Aubrey has teased a little bit of what we can expect from the upcoming series, while also noting that Muschietti is deeply involved […]
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The Losers’ Club find themselves in Hell, where they’re surrounded by the most scorching Stephen King hot takes they’ve read to date. How scorching? Take a gander at a few: “The Dark Tower is boring…”; “Gerald’s Game isn’t scary…”; “Bill Hodges is good actually.” The takes go on and on like this, and, as Glenn […]
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Stephen King loves autumn. So many of his novels are chock full of crunchy leaves, sweater weather, and the kind of dusks you can only find in October and November. Like Halloween, though, he’s never really had a story set around Thanksgiving. Instead, he’s used the holiday to help set the table, to borrow a […]
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The Losers’ Club is back on the path of the Beam — and this time they’re following it to the end. The last three books in Stephen King’s The Dark Tower saga — Wolves of the Calla, Song of Susannah, and The Dark Tower — all arrived in the space of less than a year […]
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In this special Halloween bonus episode, the Losers head to Springfield — or shall we say, Kingfield — to discuss “The Simpsons” take on Stephen King‘s It. Dubbed “Not It”, this unique “Treehouse of Horror” one-off puts a Simpsonian spin on our favorite novel from 1986 by turning Krusty the Clown into a Pennywise twinner […]
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Did you know Stephen King once called Clive Barker the “future of horror”? True story. So, in celebration of the 35th anniversary of Hellraiser, and in light of David Bruckner’s stylish new reboot, The Losers’ Club felt they were totally in the clear to unbox Barker’s iconic supernatural horror film. And, well, that’s exactly what they’re […]
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Cinedigm and its Bloody Disgusting-powered horror platform SCREAMBOX announced today that the acclaimed horror documentary Pennywise: The Story of IT, an in-depth look at the 1990 miniseries based on Stephen King’s iconic novel, will release November 22 as a Collector’s Edition Blu-ray! You can pre-order on Amazon now! An in-depth look at the 1990 mini-series […]
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“Stand by your man…” Hear that? There’s a ringing from beneath the soil. Well, The Losers’ Club is answering the call. Not from the Ghostbusters, but Mr. Harrigan’s Phone. Directed by John Lee Hancock and starring both Jaeden Martell and Donald Sutherland, the new Netflix adaptation of Stephen King’s If It Bleeds novella has arrived […]
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Stephen King‘s new novel Fairy Tale is getting a movie adaptation from Paul Greengrass, we recently learned, and now Deadline reports that Universal Pictures has come on board. Greengrass (Captain Phillips, Jason Bourne) will adapt, direct, and produce the movie, with Universal Pictures winning a hot bidding war for the adaptation this week. Deadline reports, “Studios and […]
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“The Simpsons” is going big with their annual “Treehouse of Horror” special this year, for the first time ever airing TWO DIFFERENT brand new episodes for the Halloween season. One of the two “Treehouse of Horror” 2022 episodes will take the familiar anthology approach, while the other will be a full length, 20-minute parody of Stephen […]
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Content Warning: Suicide It may not be one of Stephen King’s most popular stories, but The Mist is still a surprisingly influential piece of genre fiction. From Half-Life to Silent Hill, several horror properties have openly drawn inspiration from this eerie novella. That’s why it’s surprising that it took so long for the story see […]
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He’s not just a Master of Horror but the one true King of Horror, and Stephen King is getting the spotlight with a brand new documentary from MagellanTV this week. It’s titled Stephen King: A Necessary Evil, and the documentary features a plethora of rare archival footage and interviews with King about the horror genre, […]
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Bloody Disgusting’s review of Mr. Harrigan’s Phone is spoiler-free. Stephen King’s work captures sentimentality and the minutia of small-town life well, effectively building the horror from the nostalgic and mundane. In Netflix‘s adaptation of Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, a novella from 2020’s If It Bleeds, a quaint coming-of-age story gets blended with the dangerous pitfalls of technology. The focus on […]
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Scream Factory has been upgrading many classic horror movies to 4K Ultra HD, and up next is Brian De Palma’s Carrie, of course the classic 1976 adaptation of the Stephen King novel. Carrie is coming to 4K Ultra HD on December 13, 2022! You can pre-order the release in several different forms over on Scream […]
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Hope you’re hungry because this episode is all about hearty meals and tasty treats. For decades now, Stephen King has been whetting the appetites of Constant Readers around the world with all kinds of cuisines from King’s Dominion. Whether it’s a stack of flapjacks at the Tozier’s in Derry or Matt Burke’s bolognese in ‘Salem’s […]
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