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For Hulu, it represents another olive branch to horror fans for 2018; coinciding nicely with the streaming services upcoming Stephen King-based series Castle Rock: "At the heart of the deal is an extremely passionate audience and an extremely activateable audience in terms of horror It's not even the larger bucket of 'genre.' I would say this[...]

Credit: Pinguino [CC BY 2.0], Wikimedia Commons Created by Sam Shaw (Masters of Sex) and Dustin Thomason (Lie to Me), Hulu's psychological suspense / thriller series Castle Rock is bringing together common elements from a number of Stephen King's works to create a terrifyingly new "shared universe." The fictional town of Castle Rock has figured prominently in works[...]

This time, we hit the gas and don't look back as we charge into 2018 with a series that's giving us enough of the feels that it's earned the distinction of being our 2018 "Cusack" Series*: Hulu's Castle Rock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3U7Z94NHgg The fictional town of Castle Rock has figured prominently in a number of Stephen King's works[...]

Welcome to the first chunk of The Weekly Static's three-part mid-season finale, where we're going to take a look at our personal choice for 2017's "little engine that could" (truTV) and the show we've got the hots for going into 2018 (Hulu's Castle Rock). But first, it's time for a little clean-up by taking a look[...]

Stephen King Dalton Ross Chuck Klosterman Rob Sheffield Those names are my reasons, don't need any more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VkQCuXOjn4Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Caroline Zatina Stand Up Comedy at Carolines on Broadway October 2016 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VkQCuXOjn4) ●Perform 20 minutes of live stand-up to a sold-out crowd at Caroline's on Broadway in NYC[...]

Stephen King thinks Columbia Pictures made a big mistake in adapting his fan-favorite series The Dark Tower to film last summer According to King, the movie should have had an R-rating King cites the studio's decision to make a PG-13 Dark Tower as the primary problem with the film in an interview reflecting back on the year[...]

Well, it's only taken nearly three decades for the bad taste of one of Stephen King's worst film adaptations to fade While Pet Sematary remains one of King's great underappreciated novels, its original 1989 film entirely excised vast chunks of the book — unfortunately, they were the parts that contained the connective threads Variety is[...]

Stephen King is having quite the year Movies, books, TV shows — the guy is everywhere These are all quality releases, as well, in all areas That includes this new soundtrack collection, up for order today from Varèse Sarabande Records Four of the most under-appreciated scores from his many film adaptions are represented here[...]

Stephen King continues to have a bumper year, with no less than four films based on his stories coming out in 2017 alone Now Variety is reporting that another property is being queued up over at Paramount to come back out of the grave for another go-around: Pet Sematary The directing duo of Dennis Widmyer and[...]

Welcome back to The Weekly Static on a very sunny and chilly Friday the 13th in the northeast as we look back on the week in television!

Pennywise and Georgie are reunited forever in a new Vynl set from Funko. These figures are a new thing for them, and we will probably be picking these up.

That one's gruesome (we will get there), but there are monsters at work in this film much worse than the Monnlight Man. Based off the novel of the same name by Stephen King, we are introduced to Jessie (a game Carla Gugino) and her husband Gerald (Bruce Greenwood) They are heading up to a secluded home[...]

Hollywood continues to get the "royal" treatment, as Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars, New Mutants) has been tapped to pen Amblin Entertainment's adaptation of Stephen King and Peter Straub's horror-fantasy novel The Talisman Although Boone is currently on the project solely to write the screenplay, there is a strong possibility that he could also[...]

Mercedes head of the show's first season finale. Based on Stephen King's best-selling Bill Hodges Trilogy (Mr Mercedes, Finders Keepers and End of Watch), David E Kelley and Jack Bender will be returning to write and direct the second season, respectively King, Kelley, and Bender will also continue serving as series executive producers, along with author[...]

Abrams keep that secretive town tradition alive. Setting up a series of press roundtables and a panel at the Hammerstein Ballroom as a part of this year's New York Comic Con 2017, Castle Rock stars André Holland, Melanie Lynskey and Bill Skarsgard (Sissy Spacek was on the panel but not available for interviews); and executive producers Sam[...]

The show's first season hasn't even aired yet, and it's already getting a reboot for Season 2. At the New York Comic Con pre-panel press Q&A for the psychological thriller, drawing characters and themes from many classic works of Stephen King, producers Sam Shaw and Dustin Thomason revealed that Castle Rock Season 2 will have a[...]

AMC's FearFest is coming to invade our televisions, and this year's Fest features more modern horror than usual, including the newest Chucky film!

Mercedes, Stephen King's been having a pretty great year…but it hasn't been without some stumbles along the way (I'm looking at you, domestic box office disappointment The Dark Tower) The newest "stumble" comes from Spike TV, with the cable network announcing that it has cancelled their series adaptation of The Mist after only one season. Since the[...]

File this one under news we swear we're not making up. The Russian division of Burger King (Burger Czar?) has asked the Russian government's anti-monopoly department to ban the 2017 film adaptation of Stephen King's It in Russia, according to a report from THR. Apparently, Burger King believes that the movie's evil clown, Pennywise, bears a resemblance to[...]

This week we continue our Stephen King retrospective with a look at the 2002 miniseries Rose Red Special guest Jamie Bahr of Danger*Cakes, with music from Danger*Cakes new horror-themed song Love Bites! Listen here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/castleofhorror/rose_red_rev.mp3 Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpl4-NS_XnIVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: ROSE RED: The Stephen King Retrospective (Podcast/Talk/Reviews) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpl4-NS_XnI) Check out the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vZlrlTbudwVideo can't be[...]

The Babadook (a gay icon, remember?) has found love! His boyfriend? None other than the star of horror smash hit 'It', Pennywise the Dancing Clown.

We wanted to find every potential reader we can, and this seemed like the way to do it. The first issue has interviews with Alan Moore and Stephen King (not at the same time) Read the full interview with Wood over at THR, and head to Kickstarter to preorder a copy of this thing for… holy[...]

This week, we continue our Stephen King retrospective with a look at the 2017 film It (We've also re-posted our discussion from a couple years ago on the TV miniseries It if you'd like to revisit that work, as well This is an extra-long discussion full of spoilers, so you've been warned! Listen here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/castleofhorror/IT_2017_rev.mp3 Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch-Qv71ZhQIVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Stephen King's properties are again making the rounds as tentpole film events — just a few months ago we had The Dark Tower, and now we have another of his literary classics, It, taking the jump to the big screen Originally published back in '86 and widely celebrated at the time, this new film[...]

This also makes the film the second-highest grossing Stephen King movie of all time in just one weekend, beating 1408's $71.9 million dollar take It will likely soon beat the current number one Stephen King movie, The Green Mile, which stands at $136.8 million. IT wasn't clowning around–Stephen King's creepshow rolled out with a head-spinning $117M[...]

Stephen King has transcended to that special level of societal acceptance known as the "lovingly take you for granted because we assume you'll always be around" stage It's not meant as an insult, more as a testament to how long you've sustained a solid level of quality to the extent that people just assume it from[...]

But it still is Stephen King related. And an IT whistle. And IT pin. And then we have the big piece, the IT pint glass with the films logo on one side and the "Losers Club" on the other. Nice box with lots of timely pieces This might be the first time I've had one of these random[...]

Netflix has released the first official trailer for Gerald's Game, an adaptation of the Stephen King novel The film stars Carla Gugino, Henry Thomas, and Bruce Greenwood The film, and the 1992 novel, follows Jessie (Gugino) and Gerald (Greenwood), a married couple who head up to a secluded cabin in Maine for a romantic weekend. Upon[...]

This week we kick off our latest Stephen King retrospective with an ode to youth in America and car culture: John Carpenter's 1983 film based on King's novel Christine. Listen here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/castleofhorror/christine_rev.mp3 Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7Ts0rzngwgVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: CHRISTINE: The Stephen King Retrospective (Podcast/Talk/Reviews) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7Ts0rzngwg) Check out the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YSaIc0cpuAVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled:[...]

Though famed author Stephen King recently admitted that even he was surprised by just how good Andy Muschietti's adaption of his novel It turned-out to be (even going so far as to see it twice), one has to wonder if King didn't have some kind of psychic premonition that the film was going to be something[...]