Let me start by saying that this is a straight-up monster-in-the-closet movie. I'm not sure what "the mind of Stephen King" was conjuring in his short story The Boogeyman, but my childhood fear of the…
If you are familiar with Stephen King’s novel or the 1984 film, you may notice in the new film that the plot a watered down version of the original, but key elements have been changed arbitrarily to m…
NOTE: Warner Bros. Entertainment provided me with a free copy of the Blu-ray TM I reviewed in this Blog Post. The opinions I share are my own. Ostensibly, The Outsider is a story about exonerating a m…
While watching the remake of Pet Sematary, I found myself thinking, "Was the original movie as bad as this? Or maybe the source material is terrible, and I just don't quite remember..." After all, it …
Now, I'd managed to avoid Stephen King's IT my entire adult life. I remember the hefty 1,000+ page tome being passed around when it was published, and I remember when it was made into a 1990 mini-seri…
The plot of the horror film 1408 is quite simple: Paranormal writer John Cusack hears about haunted room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Hotel manager Samuel Jackson says, "It's an evil fucking room." John…
I'm not sure what the intentions were when it was decided to remake the classic 70s horror movie Carrie, based on the novel by Stephen King. Usually the filmmakers crow that they are going to go the o…
A few years ago, I went to Glacier National Park, Montana on a vacation. Though, at that point, it was 25+ years after the film had been released, one of the topics that kept coming up was Stanley Kub…
