Along with being one of the most celebrated and prolific authors of all time, Stephen King has also had the fortune of having just about every story he’s ever written make its way to the screen in one form or another — sometimes more than once. The latest adaptation of King’s work is Pet Sematary, the second big-screen adaptation of his 1983 novel of the same name. It’s a good time to be a fan of King’s work, because there’s no shortage of it on both television and the big screen lately. It: Chapter Two and Doctor Sleep are both headed to theaters later this year, and multiple television adaptations are in various stages of development or currently airing. Before we get your angry phone calls, King has more than 100 movies, television shows, and miniseries based on his work, so it’s no easy task to choose our favorites. Here are the projects we chose as the best adaptations of Stephen King’s stories. 8. Christine Legendary filmmaker … [Read more...] about The best Stephen King adaptations in movies and TV series
Scariest horror movies of all time
I See You is a beautifully crafted puzzle of a horror movie
Welcome to Cheat Sheet, our breakdown-style reviews of festival films, VR previews, and other special-event releases. This review comes from the 2019 SXSW Interactive Festival. There’s a striking tradition of kid-disappearance movies where a traumatized parent tries to convince authorities that something has happened to their child, but evidence suggests that there was never a child in the first place. A subset of the “Who’s crazy here?” mystery, which plays with the audience’s sense of reality and understanding of a situation, movies like Bunny Lake is Missing, Flightplan, and The Forgotten rely on the audience to empathize with a protagonist who may be creating a mystery and a crisis where there isn’t one. The narratively complicated mystery I See You plays with expectations and reality in the same way, but it’s startlingly frank about its child disappearance. In the opening scene, a boy biking through the woods is ripped violently into the … [Read more...] about I See You is a beautifully crafted puzzle of a horror movie
This is the pop culture that helped us survive 2018
As always, the first days of January are a time to look back on the previous year and wrap it up into a neat package, usually by thinking “Oh geez, did that actually happen last year? It feels like that was a decade ago.” That’s why it can be fun to look back on our favorite things of the year, the culture that endured with us past release weekend or the latest news cycle. Here’s what made a difference to us in 2018. The fan art phenomenon When Noelle Stevenson’s Netflix reboot of She-Ra: Princess of Power dropped its first preview images online, a familiar dank, never-pleased subsection of the internet started griping about them. But a completely different area of the internet took inspiration from the new designs, and started creating and sharing She-Ra fan art. This isn’t a new phenomenon, but it’s an important one in an pop culture environment increasingly driven by nostalgic, regressive, “Why can’t culture just stop at the … [Read more...] about This is the pop culture that helped us survive 2018
Cult Movie: Night Of the Demon a hair-raising slice of supernatural cinema
I FIRST encountered Jacques Tourneur's Night Of The Demon (1957) on an old BBC Two horror double bill in the 1980s. Slow burning, oddly malevolent and moodier than a phone box full of Goths, I fell in love with it instantly.I had been aware of the films that the director had made with producer Val Lewton for RKO in the 40s, like Cat People, I Walked With A Zombie and The Leopard Man, and loved that shadowy world of suspense he'd created where less was always more and the scariest things were always lurking deep in your own imagination rather than looming over the screen in the form of a lurid, latex monster. Night Of The Demon was something else altogether, though.Watching this black and white beauty once again, thanks to the new deluxe Blu-ray box set just issued by Powerhouse DVD, I'm reminded of why this is such a special slice of supernatural cinema. Quite simply there is nothing else like it in the history of horror.Based on author MR James's story Casting The Runes and boasting a … [Read more...] about Cult Movie: Night Of the Demon a hair-raising slice of supernatural cinema
The scariest VR horror games to date
TechRadar's VR MonthTechRadar and PC Gamer are diving deep into virtual reality this month with a series of guides, how-tos, and features digging into every aspect of VR that we're simply calling VR Month. It's all being made possible by Oculus, which stepped up to support this month-long project. Thanks, Oculus!Virtual reality (VR) horror takes away the one degree of separation that lets you feel safe.You’re no longer watching jump-scares happen to characters on the other side of a TV screen.You are hunted, isolated and alone, and you can’t look away; all you can do is run or die.But, not all VR horror is created equal. Out of the hundreds of games available on marketplaces like Steam, you’ll find indie and 4K graphics, psychological dread versus straight-up gore, and, if you know where to look, some spine-chilling gems amid more average fare.Look through our picks for the best horror VR games around, and decide for yourself just what level of claustrophobic … [Read more...] about The scariest VR horror games to date