The Kingcast

Way back in the halcyon year of 2014, Warner Bros attempted a prequel to The Shining and one man rose to the challenge, crafting a truly messed up screenplay called The Overlook Hotel which tells the story of the family that built the dastardly hotel. Things didn't turn out too well for them. They ended up not making the movie, but now...

Way back in the mystical time known as the late 1990s there was a feminist horror script about a goth girl taking down rapey dude-bros at her school. They decided to take that script and force it to be a Carrie sequel and the result is The Rage: Carrie 2.

Maximum Overdrive is a film that requires a lot of silliness when trying to discuss it, so it's no coincidence that the boys have brought in a heavy hitter to look at Stephen King's one and only directorial outing.

A charming statesman rolls into the sleepy town of Castle Rock and all hell breaks loose in his wake. Today's topic is Needful Things and the Ed Harris/Max Von Sydow movie that was made from it.

King's story about a mysterious car that is somehow a portal to another dimension and the cops who sit around and drink coffee while talking about it a lot is divisive. It has even turned the hosts of The Kingcast against each other.

The Kingcast's journey along the path of the beam continues with Dark Tower Book 3, The Waste Lands, which sees everybody's favorite grouchy gunslinger finally gathers his ka-tet, fights a giant robot bear, some rapey pirates and a suicidal locomotive who just happens to love riddles.

Doctor Sleep is the story of young Danny Torrance all grown up after his traumatic experience at the Overlook Hotel and his relationship with a young girl powerful with the shining. 

Back in 1984 Stephen King and Peter Straub teamed up for a fantasy adventure story called The Talisman about a young boy named Jack Sawyer who traverses not only our world but a parallel world called the Territories on a quest to save his dying mother. Despite being a childhood favorite of both of your humble hosts, we have yet to tackle this title on The Kingcast. Until now.

That's right, the Corn Boys have returned and this time they're moving on up to the Big City, but don't worry. He Who Walks Behind the Rows is along for the ride.

We've done episodes that focus on the Arnold Schwarzenegger '80s cheeseball classic adaption of The Running Man, so it's about time we buckle down and focus a little more on King's more nihilistic, complex novel, written under the Richard Bachman pseudonym.