The Dark Half
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As a follow up to our Christmas Crossover with our Kurt Army Cousins, The Not For Everyone Podcast, we decided to take a look at two of the Stephen King adaptations that were mentioned, but unseen by us. First up is George A Romero’s “The Dark Half”; a film in which we learn that pure, undiluted evil must be dressed like Tom Waits; that Henry (Portrait of a Serial Killer) has even less idea of the law when on the other side of a police badge; and that Eleanor Lance escaped from Hill House to become pipe smoker of the year (1993). A faithful adaptation of King’s take on his own outing as the author Richard Bachman, this is a superior slice of 90s horror, reuniting King with Romero, with a superb cast backed up by incredible practical and visual effects that still hold up today. Watch (or re-watch) to avoid spoilers and join us
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LeeGood evening and welcome to horror. I'm Lee.
ChrisI'm Chris.
AdamI am Adam.
ChrisAre you sure you're not your alter ego?
AdamMy alter ego, Amos Daython. the world.
AdamYeah. No, it's it's me tonight. I haven't got my hair gelled up or anything.
Leeso we are here this evening, to cover a film that was discussed in our Christmas we Three Kings episode, because none of us had seen it and
LeeAdam across the pond very much raved about this film, so we decided it's only fair we should go and track it down and give it a fair go.
LeeSo we are talking about 1993's The Dark Half.
Leethere will be spoilers and there will be swearing.
LeeBut before that, I think Adam, you've got some housekeeping you would like to cover.
AdamYes, a couple of episodes ago, we put up, we put up a previous episode under the original under the new episode title.
AdamSo we got it sorted and the proper episode was put out. It was one of our We Have Been Watching.
Adambut I just wanted to say a big thank you to Forest_Walking who was the listener who messaged me and just said, I think I mean anything. I think you put the wrong episode out.
AdamAnd it was at that point that was like, oh shit, I hadn't listened. So.
LeeThat's very gracious of you Adam, for us to collectively take that responsibility. But let's be honest, I fucked up. I put the wrong episode out.
LeeYeah, I don't know how I managed it. I just.
ChrisTo be fair, it's few and far between. You've done a a sterling job, I would say.
AdamYeah, but in fairness, he messaged and it was on a night we were actually recording.
AdamSo, you know, I could have listened at 9 o'clock in the morning when it went up and realized, but there we go. So I'm taking collective plane with you.
AdamSo you remain sweet and innocent as always.
ChrisOf course.
LeeI never listen. I don't listen to any of our episodes because I hate my voice and.
LeeI think if I.
AdamYeah I know that.
ChrisWho doesn't, you think like there you go all the things you could improve about it is so like it's so hard to shut that part of your brain down, isn't it when you're listening back?
LeeI think if I listened to a single episode, you would never hear me on this show again.
AdamIn fairness, it's in fairness I don't really and it's there is an there is an element. It's the same I used to get in trouble in bands that I was in because I'd be like, well, we've played that song a lot and it's like, yeah, but it's not like we've recorded it or anything. Can we actually it's like, yeah, we've played it a lot. I'm bored of it now.
AdamAnd it's the same sort of thing. It's like, I don't want to hear what I've already said.
AdamOr go back and listen and go, oh no. Why did you fucking say that? Oh that's it.
AdamYou've revealed too much there.
LeeThat's part of why I stopped editing them, you know, and they now just go out literally as they as they go into the mics because if I go in and start editing stuff,
Leeyeah, then I go I didn't like what I said there. I didn't like this. I didn't I could have worded that better and then
Chrisyou end up with like two minutes of show.
LeeYeah, exactly. I just cut myself out entirely. So it was like just let it go out and just forget about it, it's fine.
AdamWe just end up with the stencil of an episode.
AdamWhat I've got a Stanley knife. That's how I'll do it.
Leeyes, so if we go over to Adam first cuz none of us had seen this film.
LeeSo Adam, if you would like to start us off, what were your thoughts on this?
AdamWell, I had a listen back just cuz I wanted to I just had a listen back to the episode. So obviously it was Adam from Not For Everyone podcast and we're basically we did the episode where we discussed various Stephen King adaptations. both him and Bobby came up with ones that I think Bobby's one you'd seen, but me and Chris hadn't. And none of us had seen The Dark Half.
AdamListening back to it, I've said, I think I might have seen it, but I don't remember it. And now I've seen it. Now, I've definitely not seen it.
AdamSo, I don't know what I was talking about. I remember the cover from video shops cuz it was just a cool cover with like the half purple face and the birds like the the sparrows and everything.
Adambut yeah, I've never seen it. And I'm rather pleased I've ticked off another George Romero film.
ChrisBecause it's sort of, yeah.
AdamI was just, it's utterly it feels utterly 90s but also there's nothing in it that's like there's no shit effects really. You've got some great practical stuff.
LeeYeah. And and some fucking harsh violence.
AdamLike there's there's bits in there where it's just like, no, that is I mean, the whole point is that it's this brutal other figure.
AdamThat the author sort of spawns. but yeah, brutal is the fucking word because it there's no fucking around.
AdamThe weirdest thing is though, and again, it's possibly the 90sness of it is that so obviously this is spoilers, you should have watched it, don't care anyway.
AdamBut so the main character who is the author, Chad Beaumont, whose alter ego, what is it? Richard Stark.
Chris
Adamand Richard Stark is like the a brutal toper from his own imagination of this other author that he writes really harsh crime books under.
AdamAnd yeah, it's weird because basically it's like he's dressed like Tom Waits or Nick Cave.
LeeI thought that he looked like Tom Waits.
AdamCuz it starts off and I'll give him his due. Timothy Hutton, I don't know if I know him from anything else.
AdamI've I've got like.
ChrisHe kind of he looks like he's sort of familiar and yet I don't think I've seen him in anything else.
AdamI don't think I'm I think he must have been in stuff I've seen.
AdamBut apparently at one point the people people who were offered the same part, the Chad Beaumont and.
LeeBecause obviously he plays both roles for Ted Ted Beaumont.
AdamYeah, Ted Beaumont and Richard Stark.
AdamIs it Richard Stark?
LeeGeorge Stark. That's it.
AdamYeah, where where are we getting Richard Stark from?
AdamOh, I'm overthinking myself. That's where I'm getting Richard Stark from because I know where Richard Bachman came from. So there we go.
ChrisThe dark half is appearing.
AdamYeah, the dark half isn't appearing, but it's and I've completely disrailed myself there as well. That's that's a good start.
ChrisWhere Timothy Hutton might might have appeared.
AdamYes, apparently other people who were offered the part were William Defoe and Gary Oldman.
ChrisThat's interesting.
AdamAnd so I don't know is Timothy Hutton like badass Evil Cooper Timothy Hutton, what we normally get from Timothy Hutton.
LeeYeah, possibly, yeah.
AdamAnd you know, the nice guy that sort of every man bit is not the one we get usually.
AdamBecause it reminded me when I watched The Shining with Claire and she said the only thing with it is you're just waiting for Jack Nicholson to be Jack Nicholson.
LeeYeah.
AdamAnd it'd be the same if it was William Defoe or Gary Oldman, you'd be waiting for them to fucking flip out and be George Stark and be evil.
LeeYeah.
AdamYou know, so I don't know, like I say, I don't I don't know if anything sort of I mean I jotted it down, but I don't think there's anything I've seen.
AdamHe's won an Oscar. He was best one best supporting actor for ordinary people. But yeah, I didn't really sort of recognize anything else that he'd been in.
AdamSo I wasn't sort of like too sure.
AdamBut I think he's really good.
LeeOh, outstanding.
ChrisWhat, yeah.
AdamBecause it's only because I'd done the thing then the research for it that I knew that Timothy Hutton was playing both roles.
AdamBecause initially, I think he does look strikingly different when he's George Stark.
LeeYeah, to the point where I thought it was for the beginning, even when you saw his face for the first couple of scenes, I thought it was a different actor. He looked so completely different. And it makes sense to have a different actor, but actually, yeah, when you get to the end story and find out it is just the other part of his personality.
LeeYou think well it has to look like him effectively because it's the idea is it's the same skin and a different part of his mind. So.
AdamYeah, it's I think that the yeah, just his it did take me a moment even then.
AdamEspecially because you've got Michael, he looks not when he's George Stark, he looks not unlike.
LeeYeah, Michael Rooker. Yeah, similar hair, yeah.
AdamSo we were watching it and Claire at first Claire said, oh, so it's the sheriff doing it.
AdamAnd then it was like, oh no, because I know because I knew what the thing was about and I know I've read, you know, unfortunately spoiled it slightly for myself, I suppose.
AdamBut yeah.
ChrisNow Michael Rooker, he doesn't seem to have aged ever cuz he looks very similar in this as I've now seen him in Slither and Guardians of the Galaxy.
ChrisSo Guardians was the first time I sort of knew of him as far as I knew, and then yeah when we saw him in Slither, but I don't think I've seen him in anything else. I know he has been in films.
AdamHe's also the dad, the scary dad in More Ratz who gets stick palmed.
AdamAnd he is also Henry in Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer, which means that every time Michael Rooker shows up, my fucking asshole drops out because I'm like, he fucking done it.
ChrisYeah.
AdamOr it's like.
AdamHe he was in the third series of True Detective and literally there's a bit the episode ended and you just got someone got a phone call from Michael Rooker and it was the first time he'd appeared in the show and it was just his voice. And I was like, well, you're dead.
AdamMichael fucking Rooker, that's it. You're fucked, mate.
AdamYou know. Although policing.
ChrisNot not not.
ChrisNot the perfect role for him.
AdamNo. I just I just mean the I think the sheriff was a bit sort of like, oh, I've come around here because you've done it, but now I'm just going to come over and have a couple of beers and discuss it with you.
AdamAnd at no point did anyone go, just lock him up.
LeeYeah. if the murder happened, it weren't him.
LeeThat's what I kept saying. I was like, just agree to be in a cell overnight and then when someone's get killed, you're 100% off the hook.
LeeLike just I know it's not exactly the Hilton, but you can put up with it for a night, surely to clear your own name.
AdamYeah, it did seem a bit a trifle sort of weird.
AdamWhile we're talking of other names, Reggie, the like the Professor of Law folklore.
LeeYeah.
Adamshe's in she's from The Haunting. She's Eleanor in The Haunting.
LeeShe was excellent in this. I thought she was walking around smoking that pipe.
AdamYeah.
ChrisYeah.
AdamNo, she's.
ChrisI don't she had one of my favorite lines as well, The Almighty is on a sabbatical.
LeeYeah.
AdamOh, yes.
ChrisYeah.
LeeAnd while we're actually Beaumont's wife as well, Liz. I really recognized her and I, you know, I said at the time when we're watching it, I was like, I know her. She was in a she was a put upon wife in something else in the 80s.
LeeAnd Jennifer quite rightly pointed out, all wives in 80s films were much put upon. That was what women did in the 80s apparently.
Leebut yeah, it so it was Uncle Buck, it was driving me nuts, but yeah, she was the girlfriend of John Candy in Uncle Buck.
AdamYeah, she was in Carnival as well. She was Mr. Krab's sister.
LeeOh, I haven't seen that in such a long time. I need to rewatch it. I I really enjoyed it, but I remember just being pissed off when it got to the end because I was like, oh, now they've canceled it. We'll never find out the rest of the story.
ChrisTrue.
AdamBut yeah. yeah, Julie Harris, who was Reggie, who's in who's Eleanor in The Haunting, yeah.
AdamAnd
AdamYeah, and also, Chad's I've said it again. Chad, Thad.
ChrisWell, so I thought, I thought they did say Chad early on in the film, but I must have misheard it.
ChrisCuz I was like, so because it's that, isn't it? It's.
AdamYeah, yeah.
AdamWhich I can only hear me and Claire been re-watching the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes. So I can only hear the name Thadeus in a ridiculous Welsh accent because of the sign of four.
AdamSo it's just Thadeus, you see.
Adam
AdamBut also, there was, oh and and the guy Fred Clawson, the guy who tries to blackmail him at the start.
Chris
AdamThat's what happens if Tim Roth had run really fast at Steve Buscemi.
AdamHe's
AdamAnd but he's he's in he's in Land of the Dead. He's like the shotgun guy in Land of the Dead.
LeeI've just actually you saying about the cover of this, like the original VHS cover.
LeeIt's funny, again, it clearly is Timothy Hutton in the photograph, but it looks like Stephen King.
ChrisYeah.
AdamYeah.
LeeAgain, another story about an author and the picture on the cover looks exactly like Stephen King.
AdamWell, they've got like the story that he writes, like the first story that he writes is a child.
AdamIs I did jot it down. Herbie Tigers is actually the first short story that Stephen King wrote.
LeeYes.
Chris
AdamSo that's there's a link in there. Also this is the lake house is in Castle Rock, which is obviously the Stephen King's fictional town.
LeeYeah.
Adamand Sheriff Pangborn's in a few books. He's in Needful Things as well.
LeeOh, yes.
LeeOf course, yes.
AdamBut he's played by Ed Harris in that and like the and the deputy is the has the same name in Needful Things and this.
AdamAnd actually the weird thing is, Needful Things came out in 93, but this was this actually was made in 91. Orion Pictures went bankrupt.
AdamThen the another film they'd made, Silence of the Lambs, won every fucking Oscar.
AdamAnd suddenly they had a bit of a reprieve so they had the money to release it. So actually it came out the same year as Needful Things even though it's like it's actually two years up at that point.
Leeyeah, I I've got to put my cards on the table now and say, I quite enjoyed this film.
LeeBut I don't think many Stephen King films make it particularly well to the screen.
LeeEven with George Romero, I wasn't terribly drawn in.
LeeBut I mean, it was a good watch. I'm glad I watched it.
AdamYeah.
LeeBut yeah, they just.
AdamI don't know if I'd watch it again, but I would not mind watching it again.
LeeYeah.
LeeIf we if we were to if yeah, if we were to do it as a watch party or whatever.
Leeyeah, I'd definitely watch it. But yeah, I don't think I'd ever go to my shelf and go, oh, I need to need to pull that DVD back off the shelf. I think it's one that's going to just be there to make up the numbers.
LeeSo Chris, what did you think?
ChrisYeah, well I I did enjoy it.
Chris
AdamOh, absolutely enjoyed it.
ChrisOh, yeah, I'm trying to think I'd say maybe I I would say it could have been just a tad shorter and still still have achieved what it did.
ChrisBut like, it is a fascinating story.
Chrisand it's an interesting idea, right? So so it's Stephen King is a writer writing about a writer.
LeeWho has what he always does.
ChrisA dark half. Well, yeah, so.
Chrisyeah, like, but it's interesting how many times he can do that and it still be effective.
ChrisAnd and the idea that like in order to be able to write the kind of horror that he does, especially when when you anytime I've ever seen anything of Stephen King, he seems like a way too nice person to be able to come up with the sort of stuff he comes up with.
LeeYeah.
ChrisAnd yet that's exactly what this story is, is a guy who's way too nice and cannot come up with this stuff until he kind of releases this, you know, inner demonic half of of his brain.
ChrisLike, and and then that's that is really what Stephen King has to do. He does have to kind of engage something that he doesn't want to use in everyday life because that wouldn't be very good for a successful life.
ChrisRight, but so I mean, I find it it's really fascinating.
AdamWell, it's interesting. Apparently it's the first book he wrote sober.
AdamLike after he cleaned up.
ChrisYeah.
ChrisSo he cleaned up. Okay, so I didn't know anything about his.
AdamWhich which I, I mean, I think he's I mean, he's been on record about drug use and drinking and so on and so forth.
ChrisOkay.
Adamyeah, and fuck me, just watch the trailer for Maximum Overdrive if you want to see someone on coke. I mean, it's fucking unreal.
AdamBut but but yeah, so he sort of.
Adamyeah, he'd cleaned up by the time he wrote this and I think that definitely sort of you see that in there.
Adambut also he'd done, because this is like his 27th book.
LeeBloody hell.
AdamSo, you know, there was a but.
AdamSo he released other basically he himself, Stephen King himself had a alter ego called Richard Bachman.
AdamThat's why I kept saying Richard Bachman.
ChrisYeah.
LeeRichard.
ChrisOkay.
AdamCuz I really, I'm I'm really melding the two. The brain is sloshing around like a whiskey ship.
ChrisWell, yeah, right, who is this guy.
ChrisSo so Stephen King's got an alter ego.
AdamYeah.
AdamAnd he wrote.
AdamBasically what happened was is that the publishing company that he like was was releasing his books would only let him do one a year.
AdamBecause you're flooding the market basically, or you're going to make, you know, you're just sort of overdoing things.
ChrisSo he was able to write
Adamhe was more than prolific he wanted to release more.
AdamIt's a bit like when it's almost a bit like when Prince's record like Prince had the dispute with Sony, I think it was where it's like basically they wouldn't let him release even though he'd written like five albums.
AdamYou know, they but they wouldn't let him release him because they were like, well, you know, you're just putting out too much prints.
ChrisToo much prints.
AdamYeah.
AdamAnd yeah, so they said said to him.
AdamSo basically, he did it for that because he wanted to release books, but also, as he put it, he wanted to see if his success was through talent or luck.
AdamWhich again, is one of the most cokey things I've ever heard in my life.
AdamI'll be honest, you know.
ChrisI find that really interesting.
AdamSomeone. What? I got to see if it's it's luck or or you know, it's it's talent or is it luck? You know, I'm driving myself mad with it.
AdamSo he began releasing books as Richard Bachman. The first was or Bachman. the first was Rage, which was released in 1977, which is the same year as he writes The Shining and releases The Shining.
AdamSo it's quite early in his career because I mean I think Carrie's like 72 or something like that.
AdamSo he'd only written, I think he'd written Carrie, Salem's Lot, maybe something else and then but yeah, he wanted to, he wanted to release this this book Rage.
AdamWhich actually has gone out of print. He allowed it to go out of print because it was about school shooting.
AdamAnd he's like, it's subsequently sort of dropped out of the anthologies and things like that. It's just yeah, he's just let that go out of print.
Chriswas was it ever implicated in a school shooting?
ChrisOh, no, no, no, I hadn't I hadn't heard that.
AdamNo, I think it was just Stephen King was just basically like, well, you can write about horror, but this was a bit too near the mark. So I'll just let it I'm just going to let it.
ChrisYeah, no, that's fair enough.
AdamNot be.
Adambecause by then people and I think by the time that that decision was made, people knew that he was Rich Bachman or Richard Bachman.
AdamI'm going to go with Bachman because apparently it's named after Bachman Turner Overdrive.
AdamThe band.
AdamBecause that's what Stephen King was listening to when the publishers basically rang up and said, well, what the fuck do you want to call yourself?
AdamAnd yeah, so he's Richard Bachman.
AdamAnd yeah, so because so he created a fictional biography. So it's a different and so in the about the author blurb on the books, it's like a completely different life that Richard Bachman has.
Adamhe did another four books, in Bachman's lifetime including The Running Man. So and actually The Running Man is is credited as Richard Bachman, not Stephen King.
Chrison the like on on the screen adoption.
Adamand then he then released Thinner in 1984 and a guy who worked in a book shop called Steve Brown noticed that Thinner read a lot like Stephen King.
AdamHe just said there was similarities in the style, similarities in the language, whatever.
AdamAnd so this guy then looked into publisher's records at the library of Congress and found a document that listed Stephen King as the author of one of the Richard Bachman books.
AdamSo this guy then rang the publishers and said I've worked this out that Stephen King's Richard Bachman, but I don't know what you want me to do?
AdamI don't think it wasn't like a black, it wasn't like in the film. I don't think like a blackmail thing or something like that.
AdamAnd then apparently Stephen King phoned him up. Like Stephen King himself phoned this guy this guy up and said to him write an article about it and you can interview me if you want. So he was pretty cool with it, you know.
AdamAnd and actually at the time Stephen King was working on Misery, which he was going to release as Richard Bachman, but he but obviously it all come out then so it just came out as Stephen King.
Adamafter that all came out, King then declared that Bachman had died of cancer of the pseudonym.
Adam
AdamBut but even better than that, they've also two further Richard Bachman books have been published posthumously in inverted commas. both have been found in his Bachman's personal effects by his equally fictitious wife, Claudia Innis Bachman.
AdamSo they're sort of they're releasing them like sort of two pack from the archives of a completely fictional author.
AdamBut that's sort of, but you can see how all of this subtly into The Dark Half and you know.
LeeIt
LeeI mean it is a fantastic concept.
LeeI've got to say like I didn't dislike the film, you know, I I'm not to. But it's a fantastic concept and I think it was pretty well done.
Lee
LeeYeah. But yeah, as you say, finding out the back story as well was even more intro.
LeeLike I did love the idea of them having the fake funeral so they could do the photo shooting that stuff like it's just all so well thought out.
AdamBut also just that eerie thing where it's like they've cut out the the sort of tumor conjoined twin ingested twin rather.
LeeYeah.
Leeand grown into a person effectively, which.
AdamIt's really yeah.
AdamAnd that was the thing like Adam said there's there's bits of it.
AdamI mean it's like that was the point where Claire Claire just said to me, oh, and this is the film that Adam recommended is the bit where it was like, yeah, beaten to death with his own wooden leg.
LeeYeah.
LeeOh.
LeeYeah.
LeeI mean I've got to go back to the effects. I know you mentioned them earlier. That final I say big spoiler. Yeah, the final death scene of Richard was yeah, it looked absolutely brilliant.
LeeLike some of the stuff where you see the flocks of birds in the distance looked a bit shonky.
ChrisThe actual.
LeeBut yeah, that bit, which was the close-up, which must have been really hard to do, looked fantastic.
ChrisYeah.
AdamIt is.
LeeIt's grim as well, so gory.
AdamCuz they used I think they used like 4,000 cutthroat finches like for for the birds in all the various sequences.
AdamBut all that stuff in the house is all like digital overlay basically.
AdamAnd I don't think it looks bad.
AdamI don't think it looks.
LeeNo.
AdamIt's a bit like it's a bit like watching Ghostbusters where you're like, actually nothing seems too cranky or clunky in this. You know, nothing seems that dated or anything else like that. It's just yeah.
AdamAlso, and if you can track it down, this is one one for Chris. I feel this one.
AdamThere is an MS DOS adventure game based on the book on the film.
AdamIt was like released as a tie in.
AdamApparently it is so poorly received, basically no one good word to say about it.
AdamBut it was like one of those old clicker games.
ChrisI might have to.
AdamBut yeah, apparently it's now a collector's item for both gaming fans and Stephen King fans because it just so such a weird little offshoot that's out there.
AdamBut also the weirdest part was is George Romero, obviously he did Creepshow like Stephen King wrote Creepshow for.
AdamLike George Romero wrote it, fuck me.
AdamGeorge Romero directed Creepshow, which was a screenplay by Stephen King, it wasn't adapted from his books, it was original screenplay.
AdamBut I didn't know this, he's in he's in the film Nightriders, which is George Romero's weird film about people jousting on motorbikes.
Adamlike Stephen King's in that.
Adambut also at various points, George Romero was attached to the original mini series of Salem's Lot, the original mini series of It, The Stand and the first adaption of Pet Sematary.
LeeOh, wow.
AdamBut just circumstances meant that he didn't, you know, he didn't finish like he was involved in the production initially, but he never actually sort of got to the end of the project or directed or anything like that. So this was kind of like the the first time that they actually got to do that like of George Romero adapting King, not like sort of going from his film script as it were.
Lee
ChrisYeah.
LeeIt's yeah, it's a very I'm surprised I haven't heard more about this film.
LeeI mean it's compared to some of the other ones as you say that the fact that none of us have seen it, I I kind of half knew the name but not very well, but it definitely doesn't seem bad enough that it should have been forgotten to the, you know.
LeeI mean, people talk about Sleepwalkers more than they talk about this.
AdamYeah.
AdamBut then I think that's is that the thing though, is at least Sleepwalkers has that sort of element of, oh no, you got to see this. Whereas actually in fairness, there's not a single person I wouldn't say watch the Dark Half too.
LeeNo, no, I agree.
AdamYeah.
AdamYou know. I think it's I think it holds its own.
AdamIt's it's just yeah.
AdamI think what was it? again, I keep referring to Claire because she was just a very inspirational lady. Well, we're watching this.
AdamAnd what was it? silly, not stupid.
LeeYeah.
LeeYeah, I think that is a good way to with a lot of his stuff actually, that seems to be a good way of looking at it.
LeeYeah, it's.
LeeIt's kind of daft, but it never gets into that. So as you say, the sleepwalker's so mental you've got to see this because it's an insane concept.
AdamYeah.
ChrisAnd sleepwalker's has tons of cats.
LeeYeah.
ChrisRight, so so so tell me so the bit where he dies at the end, also did remind me a little bit of Fight Club, the fact which, you know, it's all go and he dies.
ChrisBut so.
ChrisSo nobody else could see him dying?
AdamI don't know. I mean, well the only two witnesses were the kids. And I just want to say, those kids seem to have a great time.
AdamYou know what I mean?
AdamI never saw those kids stressed once.
ChrisYeah.
AdamYou know, it's just it's always heartening to watch that, you know.
AdamSo oh no, no one felt the need to scare a fucking like no one felt the need to scare a toddler just for the sake of a for the sake of a film.
LeeWell it's funny you say that about people not seeing because that was my comment was obviously Michael Rooker bursts into the room while his alter ego is still being destroyed and then as the birds fly off and carry away the last of the skeleton.
LeeI literally went good luck explaining that to the Marshall Rooker because there's no way they're going to believe you and they're going to you're going to have to explain where this killer was.
LeeOh, there it definitely wasn't him. There definitely was a killer, but I watched a flock of birds carry him away.
LeeYou like, yeah, good luck with that one. Oh, your mate, wasn't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, we thought so.
LeeYou're going down and all mate. It's But yeah, but then it just cuts. That's the end of the film.
LeeLike, no follow-up, no.
AdamI was so pleased with that though.
AdamBecause no, no, cuz that's the point of the film. It's you just want to see, you know, does does the dark half win or not?
AdamAnd then anything after that, it was like, I don't want to have to watch Michael Rooker trying to explain this like with two guys with a camera going, you know, you you are aware that you're on tape, Sheriff.
ChrisYeah.
AdamAnything you say maybe in evidence. Now, run this bias again.
Adamabout a flock of Sparrow.
ChrisI suppose that's a good good sequel for two traumatized twins every time they're walking out in the countryside and the birds start tweeting. They go psycho and they have no idea why.
AdamThere we go.
AdamWell, I mean, I mean, I suppose actually, it wouldn't have by the time the inquiry came round Sheriff Pangbones already involved in riots because the devil set up an antique shop.
AdamSo I'd imagine that I'd imagine it's like that's one of those things where it's probably got lost in the lost in the paperwork somewhere.
LeeOh, yeah, you you can imagine being the marshal is what's happening in Castle Rock now.
LeeOh for fuck it's definitely that sheriff. He's at the heart of all of this stuff and it's all nonsense.
LeeNone of it makes sense.
AdamI don't mean anything, but every time I see him, he's a different man.
LeeIt's just
LeeOh, yes. So, so we caught up with this one.
Leeon our next episode, we are going to be watching Dreamcatcher. if you thought this film was what the fuck, you wait and see what's coming.
AdamOh, bet.
AdamI I only know I only know one thing about this film.
AdamAnd please please also correct me if I'm incorrect here because I might be going into it with a a song in my heart.
AdamBut I do understand that the term shit weasel.
LeeYes, I believe it is.
AdamRight. Okay.
AdamThat's fine.
Leeso yeah, that's one to look forward to.
ChrisAre we doing Maximum Overdrive after that?
LeeOh, I am so Stephen King out. I will be after that. I couldn't do a third one.
LeeI'd go nuts.
AdamI think I think Maximum Overdrive should be that's that's distinctly a party episode.
AdamWe'll save that for the summer.
LeeYeah, yeah.
LeeGet a load of beer in, watch it and record straight afterwards when we're all off tanked up.
Lee
LeeRight, so thanks very much for listening everybody. Go and check out The Dark Half.
LeeGo and check out Dreamcatcher ready for our next episode and we'll see you all in a fortnight.
LeeThanks very much for listening. Good night.
AdamGood night.
ChrisYou're just disturbing my peaceful state of mind. Good night.
