#stephen-king-adaptation

#stephen-king-adaptation

It was one of the three or four most highly anticipated horror films going into 2025. Yet, it also turned out to be the most disappointing one we saw this year. It's pretty much rubbish from start to finish, yet the last half is such an uninspired convoluted mess of Apocalypse Now and Walking Dead (with Ralph Fiennes coming in somewhere between Daryl Dixon and Marlon Brando) that you'll be sorry for watching it.

Michael Chaves, 135 minutes The film that reportedly represents the final saga of Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) ended up being one of the biggest movies of the year, making almost half a billion dollars worldwide after its September release, more than any other in this series (despite the worst reviews). Based on the Smurl haunting in the '70s and '80s, the success of Last Rites just proves how much people still love this franchise.

The newly released trailer for The Running Man, a reimagining of the 1987 sci-fi thriller starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, gives audiences a visceral glimpse into a world where entertainment, violence, and desperation converge in the most unsettling way possible. Set to hit theaters on November 14, this modern retelling takes Stephen King 's original story (written under his pseudonym Richard Bachman) and amplifies it for a society already consumed by spectacle and social media obsession.