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245: Duma Key with Laura Lux (ft. Guest Co-Host Zach...

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2024/08/21

Edgar Freemantle travels to Duma Key, Florida for a little R&R after a horrible accident took his right arm and permanently damaged his marriage. He picks up a paintbrush and starts churning out amazing paintings that might have a sinister supernatural side to them.

83:48

244: The Running Man with Steven E. de Souza

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2024/08/14

Based on the Richard Bachman book of the same name, 1987's The Running Man is a cheesy action spectacular with some of the all-timer Arnold Schwarzenegger one-liners. The movie bears very little resemblance to the book, however it remains one of the more prescient movies of the '80s.

44:13

243: Maximum Overdrive with Tilman Singer

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2024/08/07

Maximum Overdrive is King's one and only outing as director and is based on his short story "Trucks," a much bleaker and meaner tale of mankind's machines turning against their makers.

96:33

242: The Long Walk with Burnie Burns

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2024/07/31

The Long Walk is set in an Authoritarian future where the masses are entertained by a competition where 100 of America's youth start in one spot and have to keep walking until there is only one walker remaining. Those who fall during the walk don't just lose out on the grand prize, but are executed right there in broad daylight. 100 boys enter and only one will win.

157:32

241: You Like It Darker with Stephen Graham Jones...

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2024/07/24

King's latest short story collection, You Like It Darker, is a showcase of the master hitting all his best notes, from crime fiction to straight horror. From angry alligators to creepy aliens that grant wishes to terrifying ghost toddlers and dream doorways that should absolutely, positively never be opened, this one's a banger.

79:16

240: The Shining with Danny Lloyd (ft. guest co-host...

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2024/07/17

The Shining was released in 1980 to tepid critical response and weak financial success, but it has aged like a fine wine and is now considered a genre masterpiece. It's hard to deny that the movie's iconography is even stronger today than it was upon release, and that's thanks in no small part to young Danny Lloyd's central performance.

56:05

239: The Shawshank Redemption with Bob Gunton...

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2024/07/10

Based on the novella Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption, Frank Darabont's adaptation has become one of the most beloved films ever made, thanks in no small part to the villainous performance of today's guest.

64:10

238: An Ode To Jordy Verrill with Brent Terhune

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2024/07/03

The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill is all about a lunkhead rural farmer who discovers a meteor that crashed on his land. He thinks he has hit the jackpot, his luck finally turning around, but all that happens is a strange moss grows out of the meteor and all over this poor guy. Based on King's previously published short story "Weeds."

56:14

237: Night Shift with Jeff Nichols

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2024/06/26

Night Shift is King's first short story collection, published in 1978 and compiling a ton of his nudie magazine stories published before he hit fame and fortune. Night Surf is the standout for our guest and that one is more of a chill story about a group of friends hanging out on the beach as a super flu spreads across the world, taking humanity out person by person.

71:10

236: Pet Sematary with Unearthed & Untold's John...

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2024/06/19

Pet Sematary follows a young doctor and his family who move into a small Maine town with a terribly busy road that likes to claim the lives of pets and small little boys chasing kites. Beyond the Pet Sematary is a deadfall that conceals a sour plot of land that might help you bring a loved one back, but at a cost.

77:27

235: Holly and Creepshow with Found Footage Fest's...

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2024/06/12

Holly follows one of King's favorite characters, Holly Gibney, as she's faced with a monstrous duo who are snatching people for horrific reasons. It's up to Holly to honor their victims and stop them from hurting more as she slowly uncovers the truth behind these disappearances.And Creepshow is King and George A. Romero teaming up for a loving EC Comics tribute anthology film that contains pissed off undead father's wanting their damn cake, a man just itching to off his horrible wife, a dude that

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234: Remembering Scott Wampler

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2024/06/05

Scott Wampler passed away Friday afternoon from natural causes. Aside from being the dedicated co-host of this show, he was a certifiable smart-ass on social media, a bully to bullies and those who abused power, and champion of all the people and art that touched him. This emotional conversation pulls back the curtain on Scott as a person and what's in store for the shows that he was so passionate about.

44:15

233: It and Carrie with Nell Tiger Free and Arkasha...

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2024/05/29

Tim Curry scarred a whole generation as Pennywise The Dancing Clown in Stephen King's IT and Brian De Palma's Carrie inspired a whole generation of genre filmmakers. Both are classics of the respective forms and both have proven to be hugely important in keeping King in the cultural zeitgeist.

86:49

232: One For The Road with Scott Snyder

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2024/05/22

One For Road is Stephen King's short story sequel to 'Salem's Lot in which a family man runs out of gas in the middle of a snowstorm, leaves his family in the car while he goes to look for help, and then wanders into a bar where the locals pretty much tell him he broke down in the wrong place and there are vampires around. Scary, tense, and with a final couple of pages that will stick with you long after reading.

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231: The Shining with Renny Harlin

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2024/05/15

The Shining is one of the most hotly debated Stephen King adaptations. Did Kubrick screw up King's book? Is all that talk overblown? It always serves as a good backdrop to a conversation, especially when your guest is as fun to talk to as our guest this week.

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230: Graveyard Shift with Mike P. Nelson

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2024/05/08

Stephen King's short story, Graveyard Shift, is about a Maine textile mill that has something of a rat problem. Like, a big rat problem. Literally. But are the rats the biggest problem facing these workers or the slave style conditions they have to work under? Both are bad news, but put them together and you have a creepy King corker that once again focuses on blue collar workers facing true evil.

83:43

229: The Running Man with John Rosman

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2024/05/01

The Running Man is one of the darker stories to escape the mind of Stephen King. Originally published under his pseudonym Richard Bachman, the story follows Ben Richards as he attempts to evade deadly stalkers in order to win a boatload of cash in order to save his sick family. The Arnold Schwarzenegger movie adaptation is pretty different, but both interpretations of the material ended up being strangely prescient.

72:16

228: The Langoliers with Elan Gale

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2024/04/24

What would you do if you fell asleep on a flight and woke up to find a damn near empty airplane was still chugging along? That's the premise of Stephen King's novella The Langoliers and it remains one of his most fun, pulpy stories, despite a rather sketchy TV mini-series from the mid-'90s.

79:37

227: Design Your Own Stephen King Video Game with...

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2024/04/17

We sometimes break the Kingcast's usual format and this episode is one of those. Hey, we've been at this for four years, we gotta stretch our legs from time to time. Thankfully the Kingcast boys love video games almost as much as they love Stephen King and with that a beautiful idea was born.

87:16

226: Children of the Corn: Genesis with K. Thor Jensen

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2024/04/10

A young couple find themselves trapped in the middle of nowhere with a creepy old dude, his mail order Ukrianian wife, and a disturbing child locked up in a shed. This is, unbelievably, the eighth entry into the Children of the Corn franchise and there are still more to go after this one.

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