{"id":40635,"date":"2023-08-11T17:14:24","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T21:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=40635"},"modified":"2023-08-11T17:14:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T21:14:24","slug":"king-on-screen-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/11\/king-on-screen-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"King On Screen (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The best thing about \u201cKing on Screen\u201d is the prologue by Daphne Baiwir which finds her walking in to a shop called the \u201cCreepshop\u201d where she hopes to show a painting she\u2019d purchased. The setting, the characters, and the items in the shop are all subtle visual and verbal references to Stephen King and elements of Stephen King\u2019s stories. It\u2019s something that hooked me in right away and I quite loved the entire effects of Baiwir being savvy to King enough to deliver something of an ode to King. It compensates for \u201cKing on Screen\u201d which, in its root, is another basic talking head documentary.<\/p>\n

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That is not to say that \u201cKing on Screen\u201d is bad, but it doesn\u2019t re-invent the wheel or anything to that effect. Basically, \u201cKing on Screen\u201d is a ninety minute chronicle of Stephen King\u2019s adaptations from novel to the cinema and television and the process behind those ideas and the whole collaborations that King has experienced. While this is all fascinating material for horror fans, you won\u2019t learn anything new sadly. I mean it\u2019s about all of the same material we\u2019ve seen in a hundred other horror history documentaries in the last few decades. King almost threw his novel for \u201cCarrie\u201d away. King\u2019s wife saved the novel and effectively saved his career.<\/p>\n

\u201cMisery\u201d was altered to fit the movie including the famous hobbling scene. King was a heavy drinker and drug abuser during his early years as an author. Oh and did you know King hates Stanley Kubrick\u2019s \u201cThe Shining\u201d? Oh boy, he really hates Stanley Kubrick\u2019s \u201cThe Shining.\u201d No, I mean he hates it. He hates it so much that he went out and made his own TV version of it with friend and constant collaborator Mick Garris. We\u2019ve heard this stuff before, we\u2019ve read about this stuff before, ad nauseum. It\u2019s a lot of fun to see who King inspired and how much director Mike Flanagan was inspired by King. But through it all, the documentary just doesn\u2019t tread any new grounds in the realm of King\u2019s world and his literary process.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no new light shed, no new insight. It\u2019s a fun documentary, don\u2019t get me wrong. I love re-visiting King\u2019s old stories (Along with interviewees like Frank Darabont, Tom Holland, and Mick Garris, respectively) and watching his enthusiasm when speaking about \u201cCarrie,\u201d and \u201cRose Red.\u201d It\u2019s just \u201cKing on Screen\u201d runs on fumes for a majority of its time and doesn\u2019t quite match the momentum of the inventive prologue. I wish Baiwir had run with that concept.<\/p>\n

Now in US Theaters. Will be available On Demand and on Blu-Ray September 8th<\/sup>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The best thing about \u201cKing on Screen\u201d is the prologue by Daphne Baiwir which finds her walking in to a shop called the \u201cCreepshop\u201d where she hopes to show a painting she\u2019d purchased. The setting, the characters, and the items in the shop are all subtle visual and verbal references to Stephen King and elements […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,292,359,477,607,982,1206],"class_list":["post-40635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-biography","tag-documentary","tag-filmmaking","tag-horror","tag-literature-2","tag-stephen-king","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40637,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40635\/revisions\/40637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}