Filmy, na kterých se Stephen King podílel

Description: The story used in this collection is Cat from Hell, which has never appeared in an SK collection. This strange cat is about to be killed, or so the hired hitman thinks - but the cat has other ideas! This movie, directed by John Harrison often goes for the complete gross out, so be warned.

Basically this Romero/King joint effort is a successor to their Creepshow movies as much as a movie-length version of the TV series Tales from the Darkside. Maybe they avoided calling it Creepshow 3 due to the poor take from the second movie? The first segment features an animated mummy stalking selected student victims; the second tale tells the story of a "cat from hell" who cannot be killed and leaves a trail of victims behind it; the third story is about a man who witnesses a bizarre killing and promises never to tell what he saw and the "in-between" bit is the story of a woman preparing to cook her newspaper boy for supper.

Description: An excellent movie directed by Tom Holland about a fat lawyer that has a curse placed on him, and he grows thinner - a tribute to the F/X wizardry as Robert John Burke goes through multiple transformations. The special effects alone make this movie worth watching, and it follows the book very closely, without adding unnecessary details.

Joe Mantegna plays Richie Ginelli, Lucinda Jenney is Heidi Halleck, Michael Constantine plays a well made-up Taduz Lempke and Kari Wuhrer is his granddaughter Gina Lempke.

Description: A slightly bland version of the book, but still a quite enjoyable movie overall. Jimmy Smits plays a poor Jim Gardner, and Marg Helgenberger was quite good as Bobbi Anderson.

Description: A rather interesting movie based on the short story of the same name. The actors are well cast, the storyline is quite flowing, but the special effects co-ordinator Rory Cutler and his staff of Kevin Stadnyk should have been shot. From bending axes to continuity errors, the movie is plagued with small, but noticable errors that detract from what could have been an otherwise good movie. Plenty of good gore shots for those that like it red-n-rough ;-)

Description: She is incurably ill, but she cannnot die. Only her son, a lawyer, could bring her relief. When he decides, to do so, starts his personal nightmare.

Directed by Frank Darabont as a short feature film while a student, King revealed that this was one of his favourite film adaptations. Darabont would later get the rights to film The Shawshank Redemption because of this little masterpiece. The cast consisted of very few people, the main ones being Michael Cornelison as John, Dee Croxton as his mother, and Brian Libby as the convict brother.

Alas I have been unable to see this movie, and as it has not been released on video in Australia, I am unlikely to ever see it. If someone has a copy, please contact me.