Getting several new Stephen King adaptations in a given year isn’t surprising to horror fans, but this year has an added dimension of intrigue for longtime Constant Readers. Two of the King films released in 2025 – The Long Walk and The Running Man – were originally released under a different name. Beginning in 1977, […]
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WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for episode four of It: Welcome to Derry. As we near the midpoint of It: Welcome to Derry season one, the lore deepens and fan favorite characters begin coming together. Episode four, “The Great Swirling Apparatus of Our Planet’s Function,” not only provides an origin story for the titular […]
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The Losers’ Club: A Stephen King Podcast laces up and jogs through Edgar Wright‘s The Running Man, now playing in theaters everywhere. Topics include: Wright’s signature style and whether we see it in this adaptation, Glen Powell’s star power (and why he has the IT factor), the ballsy new ending, and why this makes a […]
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Adaptations of Stephen King‘s works continue to be as prolific as the horror master himself. This week alone brings the theatrical release of The Running Man, an adaptation of the dystopian novel written under King’s pen name Richard Bachman, and news of a Mister Yummy feature film. There’s also the current season of IT: Welcome […]
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How far would you go for a billion dollars? Test your limits with the final trailer for The Running Man, which packs a ton of violent action into less than a minute. From director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World), the dystopian action thriller hits theaters this Friday, November 14, […]
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“The town knew darkness.” When most non-horror fans conjure up the image of a vampire, they picture Bram Stoker’s legendary Dracula sitting in his dusty Transylvanian castle flanked by his devilish vampiric brides. But Constant Readers invariably picture an erudite antiques dealer and his bald familiar lurking in the darkness of the Marsten house. Stephen […]
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WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for It, It: Chapter Two, and It: Welcome to Derry. The inaugural episode of It: Welcome to Derry introduced us to the sinister town via a lumbering, airborne mutant baby slaughtering a theaterful of screaming kids. Episode 2, “The Thing in the Dark,” debuts a strangely charming opening credits […]
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Stephen King adaptations have been all over screens both big and small this year, with The Long Walk, The Life of Chuck, and “IT: Welcome to Derry” being joined by Edgar Wright’s The Running Man in November. But it’s a classic King adaptation from the past that’s making headlines today, as Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining […]
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WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for It, It: Chapter Two, and It: Welcome to Derry. Many Constant Readers believe that, despite publishing more than eighty titles in the last fifty years, Stephen King is actually writing a single, massive novel. His sprawling worlds may twist through a multitude of dimensions, but many of his […]
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The heat is on across King’s Dominion. To cool off, The Losers’ Club put on their shades, put the top down on their 1958 Plymouth Fury convertible, and feel the breeze in Hollywood King. It’s another high-octane news episode that finds Losers Randall Colburn and Michael Roffman cycling through the latest Stephen King headlines. Topics […]
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The Long Walk will be released on Digital on October 21 before hitting SteelBook 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD on November 25 via Lionsgate. Based on the first novel Stephen King ever wrote, Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend, Constantine) directs from a script by JT Mollner (Strange Darling). Special features: Alternate Ending (4K UHD SteelBook Exclusive) Stephen […]
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Chain Reactions, a cinematic deep dive into the profound impact and lasting influence of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, arrives on VOD on October 21 via Darky Sky Films. Master of horror Stephen King, actor/comedian Patton Oswalt (Ratatouille, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire), Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi the Killer), Australian film critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, and director […]
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For the next 30 days, everyone in the country is trying to murder Glen Powell in the new trailer for The Running Man. Play the game or the game plays you when the adaptation of Stephen King‘s 1982 dystopian novel hits theaters on November 14 via Paramount. Directed by Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, […]
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In this week’s episode of The Losers’ Club, Randall Colburn and Jenn Adams chat briefly about Joe Hill’s new book, King Sorrow (out October 21st) before Joe himself swings by the clubhouse. The son of Stephen King and author of books like 20th Century Ghosts, NOS4A2, and Locke & Key, Hill talks about his career […]
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We all know the story of Hansel and Gretel. Two children use breadcrumbs to navigate a treacherous forest, only to stumble into the clutches of a bloodthirsty witch. While trapped in the cackling woman’s gingerbread house, they outwit the ostensibly friendly cannibal and leave her to bake in her own oven. First collected by the […]
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