Stephen King
Date of Birth: 21 Sep 1947
Country: USA
Biography: Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies which have been made into many movies and television films. As of 2011, King has written and published 49 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, five non-fiction books, and nine collections of short stories. Most of his stories are set in his homestate of Maine...(Wikipedia)
Total Credits at Criticker: 10 (Actor), 1 (Director), 102 (Writer), 2 (Creator)
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- The Plague (1994) - S1 E1
- The Dreams (1994) - S1 E2
- The Betrayal (1994) - S1 E3
- The Stand (1994) - S1 E4
- Autopsy Room Four (2006) - S1 E7
- Battleground (2006) - S1 E1
- Crouch End (2006) - S1 E2
- The End of the Whole Mess (2006) - S1 E4
- The Fifth Quarter (2006) - S1 E6
- The Road Virus Heads North (2006) - S1 E5
- Umney's Last Case (2006) - S1 E3
- You Know They Got a Hell of a Band (2006) - S1 E8
- Thy Kingdom Come (2004) - S1 E1
- Death's Kingdom (2004) - S1 E2
- Goodbye Kiss (2004) - S1 E3
- The West Side of Midnight (2004) - S1 E4
A dark drama about a sixteen-year-old honor student who recognizes an old man living in his hometown as a hunted Nazi. Compelled to reveal the secrets of his death camp past to earn the boy's silence, the German fugitive derives a sinister scheme to implicate the teenager in a dangerous psychological game. (Sony)
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Dreamcatcher, the film based on Stephen King's best-selling novel, tells of four young friends who perform a heroic act -- and are changed forever by the uncanny powers they gain in return. Years later the friends, now men, are on a hunting trip in the Maine woods when they are overtaken by a blizzard, a vicious storm in which something much more ominous moves… (Warner Bros.)
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Set on Death Row in a Southern prison in 1935, this is the remarkable story of a prison guard who develops a poignant, unusual relationship with one inmate who possesses a magical gift that is both mysterious and miraculous. (Castle Rock Entertainment)
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Based on the novel by Stephen King, this drama focuses on an orphaned boy (Yelchin) who forms a friendship with a middle-aged man (Anthony Hopkins), and discovers depths of courage and forgiveness he never imagined. (Warner Bros.)
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Sequel to the 1976 horror thriller, Carrie 2 is a supernatural thriller about a teenage loner whose telekinetic powers awaken when she becomes the focus of a cruel high school joke. (MGM)
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A classic coming-of-age tale in which a young man must face his own mortality and the death of a loved one. (Motion Picture Corporation of America)
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Mort Rainey is a best selling author whose imagination thrills his reader to the core. But one of his stories holds a secret that comes to life. A secret that even he can't imagine. (Sony Pictures)
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Andy Dufresne is a young and successful banker whose life changes drastically when he is convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife and her lover. Set in the 1940's, the film shows how Andy, with the help of his friend Red, the prison entrepreneur, turns out to be a most unconventional prisoner. (imdb)
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A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.
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A mousy and abused girl with telekinetic powers gets pushed too far on one special night.
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After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find a body of a missing boy (imdb)
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A big-city reporter travels to the small town where her mother has been arrested for the murder of an elderly woman that she works for as a maid. (imdb)
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A nerdish boy buys a strange car with a evil mind of its own and his nature starts to change to reflect it. (imdb)
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A wrongly-convicted man must try to survive a public execution gauntlet staged as a TV game show. (imdb)
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A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town. (imdb)
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A simple man is turned into a genius through the application of computer science. (imdb)
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Inspired by the E.C. comics of the 1950s, George A.Romero and Stephen King bring five tales of terror to the screen. (imdb)
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A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town... (imdb)
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George Romero and Stephen King return to bring three stories that include a vengeful wooden Native American, a monstrous blob in a lake, and a hitchhiker who wants revenge...and will not die! (imdb)
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A man awakens from a coma to discover he has a psychic detective ability. (imdb)
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The Creeds have just moved to a new house in the countryside. Their house is perfect, except for two things: the semi-trailers that roar past on the narrow road, and the mysterious cemetary in the woods behind the house (imdb)
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Salem's Lot (1979) - TV Mini-Series
A novelist and a young horror fan attempt to save a small New England town which has been invaded by vampires. (imdb)
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Salem's Lot (2004) - TV Mini-Series
Writer Ben Mears returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem's Lot and discovers that it is being terrorized by vampires. (imdb)
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A mother-and-son team of strange supernatural creatures come to town to seek out a virgin to feed on. (imdb)
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It (1990) - TV Mini-Series
Seven youths have to defeat a demonic creature named Pennywise which dresses in a clown suit and terrorizes a 1960's town in Maine. (imdb)
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A group of people try to survive when machines start to come alive and become homicidal. (imdb)
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Werewolf terrorizes small city where lives Marty Coslaw, - a paralytic boy - his uncle and his sister - the narrator of the story. (imdb)
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The Langoliers (1995) - TV Mini-Series
Most of the passengers on an airplane disappear, and the remainder land the plane in a mysteriously barren airport. (imdb)
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Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering (1996) - Direct-to-Video
All the kids in a town over night become feverish and have convulsions. The next day they start to become evil, change their names for those of kids killed long ago, and then start killing any adult in their path, in vicious and mysterious forms (imdb)
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Leland Gaunt comes to Sheriff Alan Pangborn's pleasant little New England town, and opens a store. What this kindly Satan sells is whatever you need, from a surcease from pain to an object which you have always coveted. (imdb)
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A man and his son vacation to the quiet vampire populated town of Salem's Lot. (imdb)
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The Stand (1994) - TV Mini-Series
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Trucks (1997) - TV Movie
Based on the short story by Stephen King, this tells the tail of trucks suddenly coming to life and attacking their owners. (imdb)
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Night Surf (2002) - Short Film
Loosely related to The Stand, the brief story follows one evening on a place called Anson Beach, New Hampshire, with a group of teens, survivors of a catastrophic virus called A6, or "Captain Trips", that has wiped out virtually the entire population.
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A lawyer is cursed by a gypsy to lose weight...and lose weight...and lose weight... (imdb)
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Based on Stephen King's short story about a Maine textile mill, where it's workers come into contact with something far more gruesome than anyone might expect. (imdb)
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All That You Love Will Be Carried Away (2004) - Short Film
A traveling salesman comes to a motel in Nebraska to commit suicide because he "couldn't go on living the way he had been living". He has a wife, a daughter, and a hobby: recording graffiti which he discovered on his many travels. He first started noting down scrawls on the walls that attracted his attention without any reason but then became "fascinated with those messages"... (Wikipedia)
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The Lawnmower Man (1987) - Short Film
Much more faithful to King's story than the 1992 film, this twelve-minute Dollar Baby short film was written by future professional screenwriter and New Line production executive Michael De Luca (In the Mouth of Madness) and directed by Jim Gonis. (Wikipedia.com)
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Storm of the Century (1999) - TV Mini-Series
A small village off the mainland is about to receive a huge winter storm. It won't be just another storm for them. A strange visitor named Andre Linoge comes to the small village and gives the residents havoc... (imdb)
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When Thad Beaumont was a child, he had an operation to remove a tumour from his brain. during the operation, it was discovered that far from being a tumor, the growth was a twin brother of Thad's that never developed... (imdb)
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Desperation (2006) - TV Movie
En route to Lake Tahoe for a much anticipated vacation, the Carver family is arrested for blowing out all four tires on their camper. Collie Entragian is the arresting officer, the self-made sheriff of a town called Desperation, Nevada, and the quintessential bad cop... (imdb)
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Two young Gatling residents are orphaned after the younger brother kills their father. So, the terror of Gatling goes urban when the two boys are placed in the custody of two foster parents... (imdb)
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The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer (2003) - TV Movie
Set at the turn of the century, this is the tale of Ellen Rimbauer who just received this mysterious mansion as a wedding gift from her new husband. Her husband is a Seattle oil tycoon who has a dark past which Ellen eventually finds out about... (imdb)
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Rose Red (2002) - TV Mini-Series
Dr. Joyce Reardon, a psychology professor, leads a team of psychics into the decrepit mansion known as Rose Red. Her efforts unleash the spirit of former owner Ellen Rimbauer and uncover the horrifying secrets of those who lived and died there. (imdb)
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The Shining (1997) - TV Mini-Series
Television adaptation of Stephen King novel that follows a recovering alcoholic professor. He ends up taking a job as a winter caretaker for a remote Colorado hotel which he seeks as an opportunity to finish a piece of work. With his wife and son with him, the caretaker settles in, only to see visions of the hotel's long deceased employees and guests. With evil intentions, they manipulate him into his dark side which takes a toll on he and his family. (imdb)
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Detective John Hunton is investigating an iron folding machine that has found a taste for eating people. While he tries to solve the mystery, Bill Gartley, the owner, wants to find new victims for his machine. (imdb)
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Andrew and Vicky McGee met while earning money as guinea pigs for an experiment at college. The experiment was shrouded in suspicion and mystery, and seemed to be related to psychic abilities. The two were married and had a daughter Charile, who has the ability to start fires by merely thinking about it. Naturally, the government takes a great interest in Charlie, and operatives from the secret department known as "The Shop" want to quarrantine and study her. (imdb)
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The Tommyknockers (1993) - TV Mini-Series
The small town of Haven becomes a hot-bed of inventions all run by a strange green power device. The whole town is digging something up in the woods, and only an alcoholic poet can unfathom the secret of the tommyknockers. (imdb)
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Renowned horror novelist Mike Enslin (Cusack) only believes what he can see with his own two eyes. After a string of bestsellers discrediting paranormal events in the most infamous haunted houses and graveyards around the world, he scoffs at the concept of an afterlife. Enslin's phantom-free run of long and lonely nights is about to change forever when he checks into suite 1408 of the notorious Dolphin Hotel for his latest project, "Ten Nights in Haunted Hotel Rooms." (MGM)
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Two investigative reporters for a tabloid magazine track down across country "The Night Flier", a serial killer who travels by private plane stalking victims in rural airports. One of the reporters, Richard Dees, begins to suspect that "the Night Flier could perhaps be a vampire". (imdb)
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David Drayton and his young son Billy are among a large group of terrified townspeople trapped in a local grocery store by a strange, otherworldly mist. David is the first to realize that there are "things" lurking in the mist...deadly, horrifying things...creatures not of this world. Survival depends on everybody in the store pulling together...but is that possible, given human nature? (imdb)
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Sometimes They Come Back (1991) - TV Movie
Based on a short story by Stephen King. A school teacher returning to the town he grew up in 30 years earlier is haunted by the ghosts of highschool thugs that were killed in a freak accident along with his brother. (imdb)
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In anthology style, a child tells three stories of horror to keep from being eaten by a witch. (imdb)
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Firestarter 2: Rekindled (2002) - TV Movie
Charlie McGee is a young woman with the unwanted and often uncontrollable gift of pyrokinesis, lighting fires by mere thought. (imdb)
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Sequel to the '84 film. 8 years after the first, authorities discover the mutilated bodies of adults in the secluded town of Gatlin, Nebraska and children hiding in the corn. Enter John Garrett and son Danny who head for Gatlin on a story and get caught up in this mess when an orphan named Micah is possessed by He Who Walks Behind The Rows. (imdb)
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Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998) - Direct-to-Video
Six college students take a wrong turn and find themselves lost in a strangely deserted rural town... only to discover that this deceptively quiet place hides a murderous cult of children controlled by evil forces! Yet even as bodies begin cropping up all around them, the young friends decide to stay and rescue the children... or die trying! (imdb)
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Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return (1999) - Direct-to-Video
A girl called Hannah goes back to her hometown (Gatlin) to find out who her mother but on the way she picks up a strange man who fore-shadows her life with a passage from the bible. When she gets there she wakes up Isaac from a coma he has been in for 19 years. Isaac is awake and wants to fulfill the final prophecy! (imdb)
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Children of the Corn: Revelation (2001) - Direct-to-Video
When a girl named Jamie repeatedly tries to contact her grandmother to no avail, she investigates by going to her apartment in Omaha Nebraska....only to find that it's been condemned and overtaken by possesed children! As she digs deeper, she discovers a dark secret about her grandmother and awakens a dark, demonic force that wants Jamie dead and will stop at nothing. (imdb)
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Carrie (2002) - TV Movie
Carrie White is a lonely and painfully shy teenage girl with telekinetic powers who is slowly pushed to the edge of insanity by frequent bullying from both classmates at her school, and her own religious, but abusive, mother. (imdb)
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Sometimes They Come Back... Again (1996) - Direct-to-Video
A man returns to his hometown only to be haunted by ghostly teenagers. (imdb)
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Sometimes They Come Back... for More (1998) - Direct-to-Video
On a arctic circle radio shack, an ancient evil lurks, ready to strike at a psychologist, an army man and their collective forces. (imdb)
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A dark revenge tale about Las Vegas middle school science teacher (Robinson) whose beloved wife (Elizabeth) witnesses an execution in the desert and is then targeted for death by the mobster who committed it, notorious Vegas crime lord Jimmy Dolan. Dolan's vast wealth stems from his human trafficking operations. Dolan succeeds in having Elizabeth killed before she can testify against him. Without a witness to the murders, Dolan goes free, and Robinson must avenge Elizabeth's death on his own. (imdb)
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Children of the Corn (2009) - TV Movie
It's 1975, and a young married couple - Vietnam vet Burt and preacher's daughter Vicki are driving cross-country straight into the heartland of Hell. Here in Gatlin, Nebraska, the town's bloodthirsty children - led by the boy preacher Isaac and his teen enforcer Malachai - have slaughtered all adults by command of He Who Walks Behind The Rows. Now two new Outlanders have arrived...and The Time Of Sacrifice is at hand. (bloody-disgusting.com)
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Bag of Bones (2011) - TV Mini-Series
A popular writer suffers from increasing writers block after the sudden death of his wife. While taking some personal time at their lake side vacation home, the strange goings on in the nearby town begin to come to light...... (from watching it)
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The Dead Zone (2002) - Direct-to-Video
A young man awakens from a six-year coma with the ability to see into peoples futures. (imdb)
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A sheltered high school girl unleashes her newly developed telekinetic powers after she is pushed too far by her peers. (imdb)
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After 25 years of a good marriage, what will Darcy do once she discovers her husband's sinister secret? (imdb)
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A single mom and her two boys help take care of their grandmother with mystical powers (imdb)
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Big Driver (2014) - TV Movie
A famous mystery writer sets out for revenge after a brutal attack. (imdb)
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The Boogeyman (1982) - Short Film
A man tries to explain to his psychiatrist that the Boogeyman is real and has been killing his children. (imdb)
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Nightmares and Dreamscapes (2006) - TV Mini-Series
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11.22.63 (2016) - TV Mini-Series
High school teacher Jake Epping travels back in time to prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy - but his mission is threatened by Lee Harvey Oswald, falling in love, and the past itself, which doesn't want to be changed and shouldn't be changed. (imdb)
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When a mysterious cell phone signal causes apocalyptic chaos, an artist is determined to reunite with his young son in New England. (imdb)
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Otto (2016) - Short Film
Based on a story by Stephen King, "Otto" is the story of an affected man that from a fatal incident, product of his sense of justice, leads him to develop a feel of guilt that goes from fear to resignation through different forms of human behavior. (imdb)
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The Man in the Black Suit (2004) - Short Film
A young boy has a terrible encounter with a strange man while fishing in the woods. From the award winning story by Stephen King. (imdb)
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A group of bullied kids band together when a monster, taking the appearance of a clown, begins hunting children.
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Gotham Cafe (2005) - Short Film
With divorce on the horizon, a couple are about to find out that a lunch meeting with the wife's attorney is about to get very gruesome. (imdb)
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While trying to spice up their marriage in their remote lake house, Jessie must fight to survive when her husband dies unexpectedly, leaving her handcuffed to their bed frame. (imdb)
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A simple yet proud rancher in the year 1922 conspires to murder his wife for financial gain, convincing his teenage son to participate. (imdb)
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Disciples of the Crow (1983) - Short Film
A couple passing through a small Oklahoma town discover that it has been taken over by a homicidal cult that worships a crow god--and that all the cult members are children.
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Louis Creed, his wife Rachel, and their two children Gage and Ellie move to a rural home where they are welcomed and enlightened about the eerie 'Pet Sematary' located nearby. After the tragedy of their cat being killed by a truck, Louis resorts to burying it in the mysterious pet cemetery, which is definitely not as it seems, as it proves to the Creeds that sometimes, dead is better.
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Years following the events of "The Shining," a now-adult Dan Torrence meets a young girl with similar powers as his and tries to protect her from a cult known as The True Knot who prey on children with powers to remain immortal.
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Twenty-seven years after their first encounter with the terrifying Pennywise, the Losers Club have grown up and moved away, until a devastating phone call brings them back.
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After hearing a young boy's cry for help, a sister and brother venture into a vast field of tall grass in Kansas but soon discover there may be no way out...and that something evil lurks within.
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The Outsider (2020) - TV Mini-Series
The Outsider begins with a seemingly straightforward investigation into the gruesome murder of a young boy. But when an insidious supernatural force edges its way into the case, it leads a seasoned cop and an unorthodox investigator to question everything they believe in. (imdb)
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A young girl tries to understand how she mysteriously gained the power to set things on fire with her mind.
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Srazhenie (1986) - Short Film
A man kills a toy designer and steals his latest product. The product, a mini-army complete with weapons, then wages war on the killer. EN
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'The Woman in the Room (1984) - Short Film
The main character, an attorney by profession, spends endless hours with his terminally ill mother. Death is her only way out and he's the only one that can help.
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The Stand (2020) - TV Mini-Series
After the world is in ruins, due to a man-made plague, a battle of Biblical proportions ensues between the survivors. (imdb)
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Under the Dome (2013) - TV Series
An invisible and mysterious force field descends upon a small fictional town of Chester's Mill, Maine, USA, trapping residents inside, cut off from the rest of civilization. The trapped townsfolk must discover the secrets and purpose of the "dome" and its origins, while coming to learn more than they ever knew about each other. (imdb)
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Kingdom Hospital (2004) - TV Series
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Lisey's Story (2021) - TV Mini-Series
A widow becomes the object of a dangerous stalker, obsessed with her husband's work.
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Beachworld (2019) - Short Film
Federation Officer Shapiro crash-lands on a desert planet with no sign of water, life, or a way off. Her crew-mate Rand is no help, resigned to his fate on the hypnotic alien dunes. Locating the ship's emergency beacon is their only hope, but when a salvage crew answers their distress signal, it's already too late. (imdb)
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When Mr. Harrigan dies, the teen who befriended and read to him, puts his smart phone in his pocket before burial and when the lonely youth leaves his dead friend a message, he is shocked to get a reply.
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Possessed by a spirit in a dying cornfield, a 12-year-old girl in Nebraska recruits other children in her small town to go on a bloody rampage and kill all the adults and anyone else who opposes her. Soon, a bright high school student who won’t go along with the plan becomes the town’s only hope for survival.
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In 1969, Jud Crandall dreams of leaving Ludlow, Maine, behind, but he soon discovers sinister secrets buried inside and is forced to face a dark family story that will keep him forever united with Ludlow. (imdb)
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Uncle Ottos Truck (2019) - Short Film
Based on the short story by Stephen King, "Uncle Otto's Truck" tells the tale of a man obsessed by a truck that he's convinced is out to get him.
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Golden Years (1991) - TV Mini-Series
The Golden Years is a TV mini-series about an old man named Harlan Williams who works as a janitor at a lab. When an experiment goes wrong and there is an explosion, he finds that the aging process is being reversed and he is getting younger (Wikipedia)
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