Stephen King

Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King Is a Time Capsule of Cheap TV [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

Michael Roffman 2006, Kim Delaney, Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Podcasts, Ron Livingston, Samantha Mathis, Stephen King, Steven Weber, TNT, Tom Berenger, William H. Macy, William Hurt

Busy times for The Losers’ Club. Earlier this month, the gang delivered not one, but two book episodes on Stephen King‘s 2002 collection Everything’s Eventual. Last week, they checked into the Dolphin Hotel to meet up with John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson in 2007’s 1408. Now, they’re rounding out their coverage by revisiting TNT’s […]

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Hulu’s “Solar Opposites” Parodied Stephen King’s “The Mist”!

Brad Miska Solar Opposites, Stephen King, The Mist, TV

A third season of “Solar Opposites” has just crash-landed on Hulu, once again delivering nonstop insanity that constantly trickles into the horror space. One of the best shows your not watching, “Solar Opposites” often taps into horror, taking the sci-fi chaos into ultra-violent and extremely gory territory. This season isn’t as crazy as the previous two, but there […]

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“Treehouse of Horror”: This Year’s Episode Will Be a “Bloody & Scary” 20-Minute ‘IT’ Parody!

John Squires It!, Stephen King, The Simpsons, Treehouse of Horror, TV

“The Simpsons” is doing something a little different with their annual “Treehouse of Horror” episode this year, for the first time ever airing TWO DIFFERENT brand new episodes! 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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1990’s IT Miniseries Reunion: The Original Cast of Losers Celebrate Their Enduring Friendship [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

Michael Roffman Adam Faraizl, Ben Heller, Brandon Crane, Emily Perkins, It!, John Campopiano, Marlon Taylor, Nostalgia, Pennywise: The Story of IT, Podcasts, Stephen King

“Swear to me. Swear to me that if IT isn’t dead, we’ll all come back.” By now, you’ve heard it a million times: “You know, Pennywise did for clowns what Jaws did for beaches.” Here’s why: In November of 1990, Stephen King‘s 1986 novel IT became a thing of nightmares for an entire generation when […]

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‘Children of the Corn’ Reboot Finally Releasing This Year?

John Squires Children Of The Corn, Movies, Stephen King

One of the first movies to film during the early days of the pandemic back in 2020, director Kurt Wimmer‘s new take on Stephen King‘s horror novel Children of the Corn has been off the map completely for a while now, but the folks at ComicBook.com just spotted an update to the production company’s website that […]

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Stephen King’s ‘1408’ Leaves It All on John Cusack’s Shoulders [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

Michael Roffman 1408, 2007, Horror, John Cusack, Mary McCormack, Podcasts, Samuel L. Jackson, Stephen King

“Finally! Something to for me to write about! A ghost that offers turn down service!” To date, The Losers’ Club has stayed at the Neibolt House. They’ve brushed their goddamn teeth right next to the tub where Ms. Lorraine Massey decomposed, and they stopped being afraid of vampires back in 2017. Do you know why […]

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“1408” Remains One of Stephen King’s Scariest Stories to Date [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

Michael Roffman 1408, Everything's Eventual, Podcasts, Stephen King

“Hotel rooms are just naturally creepy places, don’t you think? I mean, how many people have slept in that bed before you? How many of them were sick? How many were losing their minds? How many were thinking about reading a few final verses from the Bible in the drawer of the nightstand beside them […]

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‘Salem’s Lot’ – Official Details Reveal That the New Movie Is Set in the 1970s

John Squires Gary Dauberman, James Wan, Movies, salem's lot, Stephen King

The marketing campaign hasn’t yet begun but it looks like Warner Bros. is still sticking to the September 9, 2022 release date for Salem’s Lot, their brand new big screen adaptation of Stephen King‘s classic horror novel. James Wan produced for Warner Bros. and New Line, with Gary Dauberman (It, The Nun, Annabelle Comes Home) writing […]

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Stephen King’s Unpredictable ‘Everything Eventual’ Serves Up New Yorker Horror [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

Michael Roffman Everything's Eventual, Horror Books, Podcasts, Stephen King

“Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.” By 2002, Stephen King had more than bounced back from his 1999 accident. He put his stamp on the e-book with both The Plant and Riding the Bullet, revisited sci-fi with the hallucinatory […]

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Stephen King’s 10 Best Stories for Summer [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

Michael Roffman It!, Pennywise, Podcasts, Stand By Me, Stephen King, summer

Don Henley failed to mention it in his 1984 hit, but Stephen King is certainly a boy of the summer. Whether it’s venturing outside of Castle Rock to see a dead body or evading shapeshifting clowns in the barrens of Derry, the best-selling author has carved out a number of parables that make us sweat […]

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‘Salem’s Lot’ – Tie-In Edition of Stephen King’s Novel Gives Us First Tease of Upcoming Remake

John Squires Books, Movies, salem's lot, Stephen King

With just about two months to go until the planned release, we’ve been getting lots of questions about the new adaptation of Stephen King‘s Salem’s Lot, which Warner Bros. is supposedly bringing to theaters on September 9, 2022. Is the film actually going to meet that date, despite the fact that the marketing campaign hasn’t […]

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He Who Walks Behind the Rows: The Campy Scares of ‘Children of the Corn’ [The Silver Lining]

Luiz H. C. Children Of The Corn, Editorials, John Franklin, Longform, Movies, Religious Horror, Stephen King

In this edition of The Silver Lining, we’ll be covering Fritz Kiersch’s Stephen King adaptation that unleashed “He Who Walks Behind the Rows,” Children of the Corn! Having grown up in an extremely protestant environment, I’ve always found the phenomena of child preachers and religious indoctrination to be a particularly terrifying subject. It’s likely that […]

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‘The Thing’ at 40: John Carpenter’s Sci-Fi Epic Lost the Battle But Won the War [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

Michael Roffman Dean Cundey, John Carpenter, Kurt Russell, Podcasts, Sci-Fi, Stephen King, The Thing

All good things come to an end and the curtain call has arrived for Blockbuster Month at The Losers’ Club! In case you missed out, the Losers have been taking a brief summer break by unlocking a couple episodes from their Patreon. Two weeks ago, they dusted off Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park ahead of Dominion, […]

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Thirteen Stephen King Short Stories Every King Fan Should Read

Jenn Adams Editorials, night shift, Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Skeleton Crew, Stephen King

Stephen King may be the master of horror, but he’s also mastered the art of short fiction. With six collections of short stories and five quartets of novellas, Stephen King has published nearly 400 works of short fiction in his decade spanning career. He served as editor for the 2006 volume of Best American Short […]

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Stephen King’s ‘Salem’s Lot’ Helped Peter Straub Tell His ‘Ghost Story’ [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

Michael Roffman Horror, Peter Straub, Podcasts, Stephen King

“I really wanted to expand things much more than I ever had before. I wanted to work on a large canvas. ‘Salem’s Lot showed me how to do this without getting lost among a lot of minor characters.” –Peter Straub on writing Ghost Story With Danse Macabre, The Losers’ Club journeys through all the books […]

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