Showing posts with label Drew Barrymore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Drew Barrymore. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

King Week: Stephen's cat


In which Halloween-related marathoning has resulted in reviews of several spooky movies from the mind of the world's favorite horror author, Stephen King.

CAT'S EYE

1985
Directed by Lewis Teague
Written by Stephen King (based in part on King's short stories from Night Shift)

Spoiler alert: moderate

Thursday, July 7, 2016

Pywokinesis


FIRESTARTER

It turns out it's not actually as easy to make an awesome movie about psychic powers as BDP and Cronenberg made it look.

1984
Directed by Mark Lester
Written by Stanley Mann (based on the novel by Stephen King)
With Drew Barrymore (Charlie McGee), David Keith (Andy McGee), Heather Locklear (Vicky McGee, nee Tomlinson), Martin Sheen (Capt. Hollister), and George C. Scott (John Rainbird)

Spoiler alert: moderate