![]() ![]() Bag of Bones starred Pierce Brosnan as Mike Noonan, a writer with a severe case of writer’s block, following the sudden death of his wife. Speaking of the book being better than the movie, we have this film from frequent King-collaborator, Mick Garris. This is definitely a case of the book being exponentially better and you’ll want to Tommyknock yourself out by the end of it. The effects are pretty bad, even by 90’s TV standards and the acting is quite bland. While The Tommyknockers has an interesting lead, the rest of the film seems like a bad Twilight Zone episode that goes on two hours too long. Years before the SyFy channel would make an entire real series out of Stephen King’s fictional town of Haven, Maine, this Mini-Series followed an alcoholic poet as he tried to discover what exactly is in the woods that it making his fellow townspeople act…out of character. Still, it’s a fascinating ‘what-if’ scenario and you probably won’t be jumping at the bit to book an Allegiant flight to Vegas anytime soon. It’s more thriller/mystery/sci-fi than horror, the effects are bad and the acting is mediocre at best. After the initial rapture, or whatever it was called, the rest of the film became somewhat of a mystery, as the remaining passengers tried to find out what happened. That’s exactly what happened to the characters in The Langoliers, a 2-part mini-series that aired in 1995. Because of this, the ending was left deliberately vague but the cliffhanger ending would never be resolved.Īs if flying wasn’t scary enough, imagine falling asleep on a plane and waking up to find that everybody else on the flight has vanished. This was an 8-part series that was originally intended to become a full-fledged series, but CBS opted not to continue it. It followed the exploits of an elderly janitor who was a part of an experiment-gone-wrong and is now aging backwards, Benjamin Button-style. When a Stephen King Mini-Series hit the airwaves, you made sure you were in front of the television. But all were made to feel like can’t-miss events. ![]() Like his big screen adaptations, some of King’s series’ were hit or miss. King is the king of the television Mini-Series and he has the track record to prove it. Some of King’s best adaptations, however, have not been big budget affairs at all. Others, like Maximum Overdrive and Thinner were…not as good. Some of these films were good, such as the 2017 version of IT, as well as The Shining, The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile and more. It’s no surprise then that many of King’s books would get a big-screen adaptation. Novels like IT, The Stand, The Shining and Pet Sematary are some of the most horrifying stories ever told. King is responsible for thousands of nightmares, thanks to the books he’s written. For more than 4 decades, King has been busting out books at the pace of a racehorse. Stephen King has been called the “Master of the Macabre” for well over 40 years and it’s easy to see why.
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