Tag: Stephen King

• Two Davids Carrie Special!

  https://archive.org/download/FrequentWireTwoDavidsCarrieHalloweenSpecial/Frequent%20Wire%20Two%20Davids%20Carrie%20Halloween%20Special.mp4 HAPPY HALLOWEEN!  The Two Davids are joined by Bronwyn Knox and John Froehlich for an intense discussion of the three film adaptations of Stephen King’s novel, Carrie.  The first movie, directed by Brian De Palma, was released in 1976, followed by a made-for-TV version directed by David Carson in 2002, and the 2013 remake directed…

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  October 26, 2018

  Podcast

  1976, 2002, 2013, Amy Irving, Angela Bettis, Brian De Palma, Carrie, Chloe Grace Moretz, David Carson, gore, horror, horror movies, John Travolta, Kimberly Peirce, Nancy Allen, prom night, Sissy Spacek, Stephen King

• Vintage Cable Box: Firestarter, 1984

  “John, the friendly orderly, will make her happy because he’s the only one who can. And when John feels she has reached the moment of her greatest happiness, he will strike her across the bridge of the nose, breaking it explosively and sending bone fragments into her brain. It’ll be quick. And he’ll be looking…

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  October 31, 2016

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  1984, Art Carney, Carrie, Cat’s Eye, Christine, Cujo, David Keith, Drew Barrymore, Firestarter, George C. Scott, Heather Locklear, horror movies, Louise Fletcher, Martin Sheen, pyrokinesis, Stanley Mann, Stephen King, telekinesis, telepathy, The Dead Zone

• “Creepshow, 1982”

  “Come on Harry, the maiden fair waits for her knight in shining corduroy.” To mark the occasion of the one-year anniversary of my association with Mark Jeacoma and his wonderful VHS Rewind! podcast and blog, I am adding a previous review I wrote for the 1982 horror anthology, Creepshow, and adapting it for this Vintage…

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  October 28, 2015

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  Adrienne Barbeau, anthology, anthology horror, Blissville, Creepshow, Dawn of the Dead, Educational Comics, George A. Romero, Hal Holbrook, horror, Joe King, Leslie, Mark Jeacoma, Max Gaines, Neilsen, Night of the Living Dead, Stephen King, Tales From The Crypt, Tales From The Darkside, Ted Danson, VHS Rewind

• Vintage Cable Box: “The Sender”, 1982

  “The sleep of reason breeds monsters.” The Sender, 1982 (Željko Ivanek), Paramount Pictures Young men and women with strange powers, usually manifest at the onset of puberty, made for a much-loved, though often critically-derided subgenre of horror movies starting with Brian De Palma’s adaptation of Stephen King’s first novel, Carrie. The strange powers might be…

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  September 12, 2015

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  1982, Albert Brooks, Canadian horror, Carrie, horror, Kathryn Harrold, Modern Romance, nightmares, Paul Freeman, Shirley Knight, Stephen King, telekinesis, telepathy, The Sender, Željko Ivanek