Tag: Stephen King

The world is not fair and the world is not kind, Ben Richards and his family eking out a living in the slums of Co-Op City, his young

It is now more than fifty years since director Tobe Hooper shocked and appalled America with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre which has endured and influenced far beyond

Older than him by three whole minutes, Hal Shelburn has always been dominated and bullied by his twin Bill, siding with the school bullies, tormenting him at home,

It was in the year 1710 that the town of Jerusalem’s Lot was founded in Maine, and while it may never have thrived or expanded it quietly endured,

Is it true that a cat has nine lives, or is it rather that they are masters of self-preservation, judging when to run and when to fight, able

Rikers Valley, “the industrial heart of Maine,” and at the heart of the town is Gartley’s Blue Ribbon Laundry, providing employment and clean linen to the surrounding neighbourhoods

A convenience store in a dying town where debts are paid with honour and those who would break the trust of the town must pay in blood; an

Despite being one of the most reliable of the many genres of cinema in terms of longevity and audience response, horror has always suffered from a perception that

The phrase is that life imitates art, but every artist is similarly influenced and inspired by the events of their own lives, and the novelist Stephen King has

The impact of Stephen King on the literary horror scene in the mid-seventies cannot be underestimated, with each of his novels adapted for film or television adaptation before