Category: Stephen King Project

Salem’s Lot (1979 TV Movie)

The 1979 television miniseries of Salem’s Lot does a decent job of translating the spirit and most of the plot points of the Stephen King novel into three hours of spooky vampire shenanigans. Any unintentional laughter I had from it mostly came from the limited special effects due to the...

Carrie (2013 Movie)

This was a completely unnecessary remake. When it began it showed Julianne Moore as Carrie’s mother, Margaret White, giving birth to Carrie and almost killing her immediately. That gave me hope that it might add a little more backstory to the movie from the book that the 1976 version left...

‘Salem’s Lot

‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King Pages: 439 Genre: Horror Published: 1975 Going into reading ‘Salem’s Lot after finishing Carrie, I was expecting to be scared. Parts of Carrie were creepy and I thought since this was King’s second novel that he would build upon it to actually scare me. It was about vampires,...

Carrie (Book)

Carrie by Stephen King Pages: 199 Genre: Horror I recently decided  that I need extra incentive to get myself out walking each day, so I started a subscription to Audible.com to listen to audiobooks while walking. I figured if I only listened to a good story while walking, then...

Carrie (1976 Movie)

An outcast at school gets made fun of at school and prom, but she has her revenge. This was another movie that I decided to watch in my group of spooky movies around Halloween that I hadn’t seen in years. I remembered her mom being completely psycho and her...