The Dead Zone
novel by King
Learn about this topic in these articles:
discussed in biography
- In Stephen King: Other novels
…miniseries 1994 and 2020–21); and The Dead Zone (1979; film 1983; TV series 2002–07). The Shining, a horror novel set in a haunted Colorado hotel in the winter offseason, was inspired by King’s one-night stay in a similar hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, during a time when the Kings were…
Read More
film adaptation
- In David Cronenberg: Rabid, The Fly, and Crash
…straightforward adaptation of a horror novel by Stephen King, Cronenberg moved closer to the mainstream. The gory horror remake The Fly (1986), in which a scientist gradually metamorphoses into an enormous grotesque insect, was widely considered superior to the 1958 original and became a box office hit. In the chilling…
Read More