Stephen King's Strong

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Movie
German title Stephen King's Strong
Original title The Dark Half
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1993
length 122 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director George A. Romero
script George A. Romero
production George A. Romero
music Christopher Young
camera Tony Pierce-Roberts
cut Pasquale Buba
occupation

Stephen Kings Stark is a 1993 horror film directed by George A. Romero based on Stephen King's novel Stark - The Dark Half .

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As a child, the young Thad Beaumont decided to become a writer. However, he repeatedly suffers from severe headaches and seizures. During the operation in the hospital, the surgeons discover that the supposed tumor is a stunted twin that, for some unknown reason, began to grow and develop. Thad is freed from the "tumor". The parents bury the operated twin in the family grave.

Thad, now an adult, married and father of twins, teaches literature and writing and publishes non-fiction books with moderate success. But he makes the big money as a horror writer and creator of the fictional character Alexis Machine, who commits cruel murders in the most bloodthirsty way, under the pseudonym George Stark. One day, Beaumont is blackmailed by Fred Clawson, who wants to blow his writer pseudonym, with which Beaumont made millions. Beaumont and his wife decide not to allow themselves to be blackmailed, but to escape to the front and reveal the true identity of George Stark in a press conference.

But George Stark does not want to admit that: Having meanwhile become a physical being, Stark begins to brutally kill the people who have something to do with Beaumont, so that the suspicion first falls on Thad Beaumont and he is targeted by the police. Stark's revenge is to come to an end when Beaumont finishes the last novel, thus enabling Stark to transition into real life and killing the entire Beaumont family. Stark's revenge fails and Beaumont succeeds in killing Stark with the help of countless sparrows .

criticism

The lexicon of international films judged the production to be a “perfect mix of psycho and horror thriller”.

Awards

In 1994 the film was nominated for the Saturn Award in four categories , including: a. in the Best Horror Film category . The previous year, the production won awards at the Fantafestival in the categories of Best Screenplay , Best Film and Best Actor (Timothy Hutton).

useful information

  • Stephen King admires the work of the director George A. Romero and dedicated his book Pulse to him .
  • King's own pseudonym Richard Bachman had also been exposed in a similar manner; for confusion about pseudonyms, see also Stark - The Dark Half (Roman).
  • George A. Romero has already filmed a Stephen King project with Creepshow ; it was temporarily intended for the film Friedhof der Kuscheltiere and also has the film rights to the film version of Das Mädchen - but he was no longer able to realize this project.
  • The film was unindexed in October 2017. A re-examination by the FSK showed the release from 16 years.
  • The vehicle George Stark drives is a 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephen King's Stark. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
Films and TV series based on works by Stephen King are based
Movies

Carrie - Des Satan's Youngest Daughter (1976) • Burning Must Salem (1979) • Shining (1980) • Cujo (1983) • Dead Zone (1983) • Christine (1983) • Children of Wrath (1984) • The Fire Devil (1984) • Devil's Gift (1984) • Werewolf from Tarker Mills (1985) • Cat's Eye (1985) • Stand by Me - The Secret of a Summer (1986) • Rhea M - It Started Without Warning (1986) • Running Man (1987) • Stuffed Animal Cemetery (1989) • Tales from the Shadow World (1990) • Night Shift (1990) • Misery (1990) • Stephen King's It (1990) • Sometimes They Come Back (1991) • Stuffed Animal Cemetery II ( 1992) • Children of Wrath 2 - Deadly Harvest (1992) • The Lawnmower Man (1992) • Sleepwalker (1992) • Tommyknockers (1993) • Stephen Kings Stark (1993) • In a Small Town (1993) • The Condemned (1994) • Stephen King's The Stand (1994) • Children of Wrath 3 - The Chicago Massacre (1995) • The Langoliers (1995) • Dolores (1995) • The Mangler (199 5) • Thinner (1996) • Children of Wrath IV - Murderous Cult (1996) • Sometimes They Come Again II (1996) • Stephen King's Quicksilver Highway (1997) • Trucks - Out of Control (1997) • Quicksilver Highway (1997) • The Shining (1997) • Stephen King's The Night Flier (1997) • The Model Student (1998) • Children of Wrath 5 - Field of Terror (1998) • Children of Wrath 6 - Isaac's Return (1999) • The Storm of the Century (1999) • The Green Mile (1999) • The Mangler 2 (2001) • Hearts in Atlantis (2001) • Children of the Corn: Revelation (2001) • Fire Devil - The Return (2002) • Carrie (2002) • Stephen King's House of Doom (2002) • Dreamcatcher (2003) • Salem's Lot - Burning Must Salem (2004) • The Secret Window (2004) • Riding the Bullet (2004) • Desperation (2006) • Room 1408 (2007) • The Nebel (2007) • Dolan's Cadillac (2009) • Children of the Corn (2009) • Everything's Eventual (2009) • Children of Anger: Genesis - The Beginning (2011) • Willa (2013) • Carrie (2013) • Stephen King's a Good Marriage (2014) • Mercy - The Devil Knows No Mercy (2014) • Big Driver (2014) • Willa (short film) (2015) • Pulse (2016) • The Dark Tower (2017) • 1922 (2017 ) • The Game (2017) • It (2017) • The Doctor's Case (2018) • Mute (2018) • Cemetery of Stuffed Animals (2019) • It Chapter 2 (2019) • In the Tall Grass (2019) • Doctor Sleeps Awakening ( 2019)

TV Shows

Kingdom Hospital (2004) • Salem's Lot (2004) • Stephen King's Nightmares (2006) • Haven (2010–2015) • Stephen King's Bag of Bones (2011) • Under the Dome (2013–2015) • 11.22. 63 - The Attack (2016) • The Fog (2017) • Mr. Mercedes (2017) • Castle Rock (2018)