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In the horror world, few names are more recognizable than Stephen King. King is the author behind many famous novels like It, The Shining, Pet Sematary, and Carrie. There have been countless movies based on Stephen King's work. It's hard to keep track of all of them, especially since many of them, like It, have received remakes.

While Stephen King is huge in the movie world, his work has also turned into many television series over the years. Unfortunately, these shows and miniseries never get the recognition that King's film adaptations do. Despite many of them being great, they're often overlooked and lost in the sea of more successful films.

Updated April 8, 2024, by Joshua M. Patton: The kind of series inspired by Stephen King can run the gamut from horror to science fiction to simple human drama. Some series go far beyond the mandate of their source novels or stories,...

Stephen King made it very well known that he wasn’t a fan of Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 adaptation of his book The Shining, so seventeen years later he took the chance to bring the story to the screen himself. He wrote the script for a three-part mini-series that was directed by Mick Garris and aired on ABC back in 1997 – and tomorrow, March 12th, Scream Factory is giving the mini-series version of The Shining a Blu-ray release! Copies are available for purchase at This Link.

The mini-series version of The Shining has the following synopsis: Jack Torrance and his family move into the sprawling, vacant Overlook Hotel to get away from it all. Away from the alcoholism that derails Jack’s writing career. Away from the violent outbursts that mar Jack’s past. But Jack’s young son Danny knows better. He possesses a psychic gift called the shining — a gift...

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The Shining (1997) Blu-ray from Scream Factory

The 1997 miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shining will be released on Blu-ray on March 12 via Scream Factory. It has been newly scanned in 2K from the interpositive with DTS-hd Master Audio 2.0 Stereo.

Displeased with Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 adaptation, King took it upon himself to write the script based on his 1977 novel. Mick Garris directs. Steven Weber, Rebecca De Mornay, Melvin Van Peebles, Courtland Mead, and Wil Horneff star.

An archival audio commentary with King, Garris, Weber, and more is included along with 11 additional scenes.

The Words and Music of House of 1000 Corpses from Waxwork Records

The Words and Music of House of 1000 Corpses — featuring the complete audio...

Patrick Renna dropped The Sandlot virtual reunion trailer earlier this week. Additionally, he sat down for an interview where he discussed the upcoming Disney+ series based on the iconic family baseball movie. For this reunion, Renna was able to get more members of the cast than in 2018 when the movie was celebrating its 25th anniversary, including actress Marley Shelton, who played Wendy Peffercorn. When putting the virtual reunion together, Renna says he was a bit lost. He explains.

"I never realized how much technical expertise goes into these things. We started with Secrets Of The Sandlot just to get a feel for how it works one on one. Still going from one guest to 19 that, we didn't know what we had in store for ourselves."

While The Sandlot crew were fast friends on the set, much of them lost contact in the years after. However, that all changed when the...

The amount of women making films is fairly small, but there are three that have that left their stamp on cinema, specifically, in the realm of horror/science fiction/fantasy. Mary Lambert directed the best horror film of 1989 with Pet Sematary, and Jennifer Lynch helmed the weird thrillogy that is Surveillance, Hisss and Boxing Helena. Then there is Rachel Talalay, who will forever be remembered for Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, and to a lesser extent - Tank Girl. But what about her cyber thriller from 1993 that never gets any love? Well, with my latest chapter of Late Night Classics, I was given the chance to interview Rachel about her favorite flick of mine.

Jason Bene: After producing a few of the Nightmare on Elm Street films, you got to put Krueger to rest, temporarily, with Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare. How was it for you from going...