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Hardly a month goes by without news of a new Stephen King film or series, be it a straight book adaptation or some…

Last year, it was revealed that Don’t Breathe director Fede Álvarez was putting together a horror film he describes…

As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, influential Polish composer Krzystof Penderecki—whose avant-garde pieces have…

We don’t know about you all, but we at The A.V. Club are very much looking forward to this year’s Super Bowl LIV. No…

Mike Flanagan’s Doctor Sleep deviates wildly from the 2013 Stephen King novel that serves as its source material,…

Welcome to November! The way that time works in this, our year of what-the-fuck-is-happening, Halloween probably…

The Overlook plays what you might call a supporting role in Doctor Sleep. Aside from some fleeting flashbacks to a…

Name a significant event in horror history over the past half century, and odds are Tom Savini was there. From his…

Let us go then, you and I, to a website where a story is spread out against the screen like a patient etherized upon…

Mike Flanagan’s adaptation of Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep is perhaps more interesting for its approach than the…

The Overlook Hotel is a bad place. But it’s also a great location. Much has been written (and, in at least one…

Of the great and storied Hollywood feuds between adapter and adaptee, few are as infamous as Stephen King’s stance…

Here’s one thing that can’t be denied about this teaser for director Mike Flanagan’s Doctor Sleep: It’s bold. The…

Here’s some good news that should brighten this dreary December day: In the event that mankind is wiped out and…

“Witness marks tell the story of the piece if you know how to read them”

As every horror fan knows, there are two, weirdly distinct versions of The Shining: Stephen King’s original novel,…

Nobody needed a sequel to The Shining, but Stephen King gave us one in 2013 with the underwhelming Doctor Sleep,…

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Ewan McGregor is going to have to start getting some practice riding a Big Wheel through the hallways of a spooky…