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reveling in spoilers

The Mist's Brutal, Controversial Ending

The Mist hit theaters Wednesday, and it's been widely circulated that director Frank Darabont's ending in the movie differed vastly from Stephen King's ending to the novella it's based on. But King loves the new ending so much that he opined:
It is the most shocking ending ever and there should be a law passed stating that anybody who reveals the last five minutes of this film should be hung from their neck until dead.

Well Mr. King, you'd better get your rope ready. Needless to say, spoilers ahead. More »

7:00 AM on Fri Nov 23 2007
By Kevin Kelly
608 views, 2 comments

Latest by Erzengel: i just saw the movie.... and good, i got shivers all over... its simply great... this movie really makes you wonder, which monster are worse, the ones from the mist... or us? more »

featured review

Stephen King's The Mist Remains Hazy

By now you've probably seen the trailer a hundred times where a bleeding man comes stumbling into a grocery store screaming, "There's something in the mist!" The same guy could have stumbled onto a boat in Jaws and said, "There's something in the water!" So yes, The Mist isn't exactly breaking into new territory plot-wise: it's a monster movie at heart, although unlike classic monster fare like Jaws or The Thing, The Mist shows us a lot more of the monster(s). More »

9:00 AM on Wed Nov 21 2007
By Kevin Kelly
179 views, Comment

the long walk

Murder As Entertainment In Darabont's Future Reality Project

Frank Darabont recently let it slip that he owns the rights to The Long Walk, which was a short story included in Stephen King's The Bachman Books back in 1979. It's an extremely dark tale set in the near future about a new form of entertainment that has the whole country held in rapt attention, and serves as a strangely fitting commentary on the current state of reality television. A pool of 100 "walkers" are selected to participate in a forced walk where they have to maintain at least a four mile-per-hour pace, or else they "buy their ticket," which isn't exactly a prize. The story follows 16-year-old Ray Garraty, and we see the horrific reality of the walk through his eyes. Garabont has been something of a filmmaking dynamo recently. More »

12:00 PM on Tue Nov 13 2007
By Kevin Kelly
46 views, Comment

andromeda strain

Andromeda Strain Reborn As Miniseries On A&E

One point that Battlestar Galactica keeps trying to hammer home is "All this has happened before, and will happen again." With yet another scifi remake on the horizon, they may be more right than they know. The Sci Fi channel announced back in 2004 that they would be making a miniseries version of Michael Crichton's novel The Andromeda Strain with Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, and Frank Darabont producing. It's not clear if the Scotts and Darabont are still involved, but the mini has shifted from Sci Fi to A&E, and will be airing in February. What is going to make this worth watching? More »

11:09 AM on Tue Nov 13 2007
By Kevin Kelly
2,933 views, Comment

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Fahrenheit 451 Is "The Most Relevant Piece Of Literature Ever Written"

Director Frank Darabont has made a career out of adapting kooky and off-beat novel and short stories, most of them from the hand of Stephen King. He impressively turned the very thin story "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" into a film that holds his own, and now he's attempting to do the same with Ray Bradbury's classic Fahrenheit 451. More »

12:59 PM on Fri Nov 9 2007
By Kevin Kelly
93 views, Comment