'Hunger Games' director Francis Lawrence puts on his genre goggles once more, this time to adapt a 1979 novel by Stephen King. The film verges on a gory, horrific thriller at times, but begins with ...
The Long Walk is a story that I never thought could be adapted into a film. Stephen King‘s first written work, published under his pen name (Richard Bachman) after he began his career as a horror ...
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The Long Walk Review

It may not have been the first book the Master of Horror ever published, but The Long Walk was the first novel Stephen King ever wrote. Written during the height of the Vietnam War, it’s a fascinating ...
The post The Long Walk Review: A Gripping, Visceral March Through Stephen King’s Thinly-Drawn Dystopia appeared first on Consequence. Like a lot of King-inspired tales, The Long Walk offers a gripping ...
When Stephen King wrote “The Long Walk” in 1979 under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, the novel’s bare bones and timeless premise were immediately cemented into King’s literary canon. For an author ...
Kudos to director Francis Lawrence and scriptwriter JT Mollner for downing Stephen King's dark-hearted material without a dose of saccharine hope. Ultimately, “The Long Walk” comes at its ...
What’s left of America? The roadsides are littered with burning cars and corpses of disease-ridden cattle, while isolated, poverty-stricken families eat scraps off burning tires. The towns, such as ...
Jeff Ewing is a critic, entertainment journalist, interviewer, and screenwriter in LA with a life-long love of horror and film history. He has an M.S. in Sociology from the University of Oregon, and a ...
Eighteen years after the theatrical release of The Mist, another Stephen King movie has been crafted to further that tradition – though Francis Lawrence’s The Long Walk is also a very different animal ...