King for a Day
The world of Stephen King on the big screen can be difficult to traverse. You never know what you are going to get - a masterpiece or a disasterpiece! In King for a Day we take the hard work out of your hands as we work our way through every big-screen outing based on the work of the master of horror, Stephen King.
Episodes
One of the fascinating aspects of the King film oeuvre is its breadth. Travis and Lesley take a left turn down a lesser traveled road this week and review the Netflix exclusive Gerald's Game. We got a heads up from Lesley in the last episode that parts of this would be hard to watch, and the amount of time Travis spent with his hands covering his eyes lends credence to this! Were our courageous hosts able to stomach watching i...
Controversy hits the King for a Day team as our opinions verge for the first time in the show's lengthy and storied history of two months! This week we review the long-forgotten 1985 anthology horror film, Cat's Eye. This, it turns out, is the first screenplay written by the show's inspiration Stephen King, and one of us thinks that's a good thing and the other person is wrong... Who comes down on which side? Who wi...
In this week’s episode, Travis and Lesley dissect the cinematic equivalent of the Ebola virus, Graveyard Shift - not too many people encounter it, but God help them if they do! Check out this episode for some healthy Brad Dourif love, Travis forgetting who the characters are one hour after seeing the film, and as always Lesley finding something to appreciate in the technical side of the production. If this film could be compared ...
In episode three we veer wildly back into the realm of high quality films based on Stephen King's work with 1990's Misery. Sadly less well remembered today than many other films based on King's novels, Misery features one of the all-time great film villain performances from Kathy Bates as Annie, along with some of the most memorably gruesome scenes of torture... So it's one for the whole family this week, download...
The film adaptations of Stephen King's works have a reputation for unpredictability. On the one hand, there are films that are undisputed masterpieces like The Shining reviewed in episode one of this podcast... and then there are films like Cell. Based on the 2006 novel of the same name, Cell is King's version of the zombie apocalypse and the culprit this time is out-of-date cell phones!! Was it poor coverage? No snake game...
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