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Episode 05 – Pick Your King Part 1
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In this episode Adam and Mark discuss Adam’s top five movies adapted from Stephen King stories. Almost as long as that legendary master of horror Stephen King has been keeping book lovers up at night, filmmakers have been adapting his books, for decades now. Which means there have been some classics and some clunkers. Featuring a rambling conversation focusing on his formative viewing habits and pondering on Children of the Corn (1984), The Mangler (1995), Maximum Overdrive (1986), The Running Man (1987) and Sleepwalkers (1992).
Children of the Corn - A pagan cult of killer kids … Ban this sickle filth! King’s unsettling short story about a pagan cult of killer kids was originally published in Penthouse in 1977 and has so far inspired 10 screen adaptations.
Novel – 1977 issue of Penthouse, and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift. Film – 1984. Director - Fritz Kiersch - GOR 1987, Swamp Thing TV series, 1990. Staring - Peter Horton - T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous -Dr. Donald Hayden 1998 Singles - Jamie 1992. Linda Hamilton - Terminator – Sarah Connor 1984, King Kong Returns - Amy Franklin 1986, Dante’s Peak – Racheal Wando 1997. R.G. Armstrong - Predator – General Phillips 1987, Friday the 13th the Series Lewis Vendredi 1988- 1989, Dick Tracey – Prune Face 1990, Metallica: Enter Sandman 1991.
Links - Full Movie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHPYu2rrYhk Trailer – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs6z1D4gVp4
The Mangler - A demon possessed laundry press is depressing. It was meant to be a horror heavyweight’s team-up for the ages: writer King, director Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre) and Freddy Krueger actor Robert Englund — but The Mangler is about an evil laundry press and nothing could have made it work.
Novel – 1972 issue of Cavalier magazine, and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift. Film – 1995. Director - Tobe Hooper -Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1974, Poltergeist 1982, Crocodile 2000.Starring- Robert Englund – Bill Gartley laundry owner - Nightmare on Elm Street – Freddy Krueger Strippers vs. Werewolves - Tapper 2012, Zombie Strippers! - Ian 2008. Ted Levine – Police officer - Silence of the Lambs – Jame Gumb 1991, Shutter Island - Warden 2010, the hills have eyes remake Big Bob 2006.
Links - Full movie dub in Tamil - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsDq7d2Z-qw - Trailer -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhTgzfMwpiQ
Maximum Overdrive - Try to survive when homicidal machines become alive - so-bad-it’s-so-good. Stephen King – that great chronicler of retro Americana – somehow made the perfect drive-in movie in his sole directorial effort: a silly, slapdash nightmare of murderous vehicles and appliances attacking hysterical patrons (including a bewildered Emilio Estevez) at a truck stop called the Dixie Boy.
Novel – Trucks" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the June 1973 issue of Cavalier magazine, and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift. Film – 1986. Director - Stephen King. Starring - Emilio Estevez – Bill - Repoman – Otto 1984, The Breakfast Club - Andrew Clark 1985, St. Elmo ’s fire - Kirby Keger 1985. Pat Hingle – Hendershot - Batman - Commissioner Gordon 1989, Hang ‘Em High - Judge Fenton 1968, Muppets form Space – General Luft 1999
Links - Full movie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVigoLjor0Q - Trailer – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggWS4tTzs60
The Running Man - Ladies & Gentlemen, if you just bear with us, we are experiencing technical difficulties. The story is set in a dystopian United States between 2017 and 2019, is about a television show called The Running Man, where convicted criminal "runners" must escape death at the hands of professional killers.
Novel – First published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman in 1982 as a paperback original. Film – 1987. Director - Paul Michael Glaser - Kazaam 1996, Starsky and HutchDet. Dave Starsky 1975-1979. Starring - Arnold Schwarzenegger- Ben Richards -Predator - Dutch 1987, Terminators - The Terminator- 1991, Conan the Barbarian – Conan 1982. María Conchita Alonso - Amber Mendez - Predator 2 - Leona Cantrell 1990. Richard Dawson - Damon Killian - Family Feud Himself – Host 1976-1985, Hogan's Heroes -Cpl. Peter Newkirk / Papa Bear 1965-1971.
Links - Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkAN5rGGP1M
Sleepwalkers - Werecats probably seemed like a good idea in a horror movie? No doubt the finest unintentional comedy on this list, this feline-centric original is equal parts campy and icky, never scary or funny in a clever way.
Novel – not actually novel an adaption it’s a movie written by King 1992. Film – 1992. Directed - Mick Garris - Critters 2 1988, Psycho 4: The Beginning 1990. Starring - Brian Krause – Charles - Return to the Blue Lagoon - Richard Lestrange 1991, Camel Spiders - Captain Mike Sturges 2011. Mädchen Amick – Tanya - Twin Peaks - Shelly Johnson 1989-1991, Riverdale- Alice Cooper 2019. Alice Krige – Mary - Star Trek: First Contact - Borg Queen – 1996, Silent Hill - Christabella 2006.
