4 d. ago The gross and flashy It: Welcome to Derry heralds the sad end of Prestige TV

HBO’s new Stephen King adaptation is completely watchable television, writes Louis Chilton – but part of a dispiriting trend that’s sweeping the industry

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4 d. ago It: Welcome to Derry fans rejoice as episode 2 gets special early release for Halloween

Prequel to Stephen King’s popular ‘It’ franchise debuted Sunday and is already being hailed by fans for its gore and fright

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4 d. ago Stephen King fans hail 'super creepy' new horror series and it's streaming now

The first episode has been released to UK audiences today (October 27)

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5 d. ago Stephen King's attack on Trump backfires spectacularly as he falls for fake World Series post

The acclaimed author vented his frustrations on X on Sunday night after he heard that Trump had opted not to invite the winning team from the World Series to the White House .

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5 d. ago IT: Welcome to Derry review – Make sure you have a cushion to hide behind

This prequel to the first movie in the Stephen King IT franchise masterfully recreates the film’s atmosphere of fetid, rising dread – and there’s no shortage of gore

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5 d. ago 'Macabre' and 'sick' Stephen King novel that inspired Welcome to Derry

The new TV series dives a little deeper into Stephen King's horror world

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8 d. ago Stephen King series IT Welcome to Derry episode count and release dates

The first season of the new IT prequel series is just days away

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9 d. ago IT: Welcome to Derry review: 'The scariest TV show of the year has brains as well as gore'

This is an instant classic TV event which cleverly expands Stephen King’s IT universe while delivering scenes of such jaw-dropping terror that a fresh set of nightmares will be yours to keep

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1 week ago Chain Reactions review – famous fans of Texas Chain Saw Massacre go deep into the legendary slasher

Stephen King, Takashi Miike and Patton Oswalt are among the contributors to this documentary about Tobe Hooper’s 1974 horror masterpieceIf you’re programming your own little horror film festival in the run-up to Halloween, and Tobe Hooper’s stone-cold classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre from 1974 is part of the lineup, then this would make a handy follow-up for a night’s viewing. It’s not a making-of movie, although there are snippets of insight into the production’s process; nor is it a meta-commentary at the same sprawling level of Room 237, the delirious doc about The Shining. Instead, Chain Reaction is something in between, constructed in five chapters featuring interviews with five very different, almost random-seeming interlocutors who have strong feelings about The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. These are: comedian Patton Oswalt, film-makers Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi the Killer) and Karyn Kusama (Girlfight, Jennifer’s Body), academic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, and writer Step...

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1 week ago Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung review – sinister stories from the graveyard shift

Horror tropes meet modern nightmares as the South Korean author takes us deep inside a research facility called The InstituteOur fears turn feral when they have nowhere to go. South Korean author Bora Chung’s new short story collection plays with old horror tropes: endless corridors and looped staircases, exits that only lead you deeper, a phone that rings and rings (don’t pick up). The kind of stories dare-drunk children trade in the dark.Set in a research facility known only as “the Institute”, a repository of cursed and haunted objects, Chung’s tales come from the building’s skeleton staff – warnings and gossip from the night shift. It’s a nod, perhaps, to Stephen King’s debut collection, 1978’s still brilliant Night Shift. Continue reading...

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1 week ago When is Stephen King horror series Welcome to Derry out? Release date, cast and plot

A new prequel series will delve into the origins of horror icon Pennywise

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1 week ago IT Welcome to Derry cast, plot and release date as nightmarish Stephen King story reimagined

One of Stephen King's most terrifying stories has been reimagined for the small screen

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2 w. ago What is A Good Marriage by Stephen King about? BTK Killer connection explained

Netflix viewers across the world are curious about A Good Marriage after watching true crime documentary My Father, the BTK Killer

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2 w. ago How is the BTK Killer linked to A Good Marriage by Stephen King?

Netflix viewers are curious about the connection between the real-life serial killer and the fictional story

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2 w. ago Black Phone 2 review – hit horror sequel lumbers toward Elm Street

Ethan Hawke’s child-killing murderer returns from the dead to become a joke-free, low-rent Freddy Krueger in a follow-up that leaves us coldArriving as the re-activated Stephen King machine was still churning out adaptations, quality be damned, The Black Phone felt like a lazy fanboy tribute. With its 1970s small town setting, high school cast, psychic kids and gnarly neighbourhood villain, it was close to pastiche and, like the very worst of King’s stories, it was also inelegantly overstuffed.Funnily enough the call came from inside the family home, as it was based on a short story from King’s son Joe Hill, over-extended into a film that was a surprise $161m hit. It was the story of the Grabber, a sadistic killer of young boys who would revel in elongating the ritual of their deaths. While sexual abuse was never mentioned, there was something inescapably queer-coded about the character and the historical touchpoints/moral panics he was clearly supposed to refer to, reinforced by Et...

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3 w. ago Netflix horror film based on Stephen King novel hailed as 'gut wrenching' by fans

The psychological horror thriller was released eight years ago and had many people questioning what's real and what's not.

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3 w. ago Netflix horror film with 91% Rotten Tomatoes score hailed as 'awe

In 2017, a novel by American writer Stephen King was turned into a film as Gerald's Game kept people on edge.

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3 w. ago Netflix fans need to watch ‘most disturbing’ horror film with 91% Rotten Tomatoes score

Gerald’s Game was first released back in 2017 which is based on the novel by American writer Stephen King

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3 w. ago ‘Terrifying’: Stephen King delivers his verdict on HBO’s IT: Welcome to Derry and fans will love it

Stephen King has delivered his verdict on IT: Welcome to Derry 🎈📺

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4 w. ago Stephen King is the most banned author in US schools, according to report

During the 2024-2025 school year, there were more then 6,800 instances of books being pulled, led by the horror authorA new report on book bans in US schools finds Stephen King as the author most likely to be censored and the country divided between states actively restricting works and those attempting to limit or eliminate bans.PEN America’s Banned in the USA, released Wednesday, tracks more than 6,800 instances of books being temporarily or permanently pulled for the 2024-2025 school year. The new number is down from more than 10,000 in 2023-24, but still far above the levels of a few years ago, when PEN didn’t even see the need to compile a report. Continue reading...

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