![]() The story is great, though, and King has fully redeemed himself in my eyes, as I swore I was done with him after I never finished From a Buick 8. ![]() I said “almost YA” because aside from some gory bullet wounds, it’s pretty mild horror… until the final scene where there are references to a drug kingpin and torture. (Not to be confused with the movie Commander USA used to show on Saturdays.) Actually, he does name it, it’s a deadlight, straight from It.īut mostly, like all King’s work, it’s about people, the author breathing his unique insight into characters’ thoughts and motives far more than the horrific situations he puts them in… and sometimes painfully extricates them from. James, fresh from a BBC Ghost Story for Christmas adaptation, finds its way lovingly into this narrative as the boy must undertake “The Ritual of Chud” with an unnamed thing from Hell. It’s about a new twist on an old story, as only Stephen King could accomplish. ![]() ![]() It’s about a kid who gets “borrowed”, not kidnapped, by his mother’s ex girlfriend Liz, who knows many secrets, a kid who is talking to a dead man when a revenant possesses that soul, a kid who knows there is some untold story about his father that he’s not sure he wants to hear. ![]()
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