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Dark Half
Author Thad Beaumont creates his alto ego, George Stark as a secret vent for his own violent emotions. When Thad decides to kill him off Stark leaps off the fictional pages into reality, taking horrific revenge on his creator.
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£10.99
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MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) The Dark Half [1993]
Although it lacks the creepy subtleties of Stephen King's celebrated novel, George Romero's underrated adaptation of <I>The Dark Half</I> is among the best films based on King's fiction, with Romero taking care to honour the central theme while serving up some gruesome gore in the film's much-criticised finale. Inspired by King's own admission that he wrote several novels under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, <I>The Dark Half</I> explores the duality of a writer's impulse, ranging from literary respectability to the viscerally cathartic thrills of exploitative pulp fiction.<p> Author and teacher Thad Beaumont (Timothy Hutton) finds himself torn between those extremes when he kills his profitable alter ego, George Stark (the bestselling dark half to Thad's light), who then assumes evil, autonomous form (again played by Hutton) to defend lethally his role in Thad's creative endeavours. Forced to wrestle with this evil manifestation of his own unformed twin, Thad must fight to protect his wife (Amy Madigan), their twin babies and himself. While Romero skilfully develops the twin/duality theme to explore the writer's dilemma, Hutton is outstanding in his dual roles, playing Stark (in subtly fiendish makeup) as a redneck rebel with a knack for slashing throats. Julie Harris adds class in a supporting role, and horror fans will relish Romero's climactic showdown, in which swarms of sparrows seal Stark's fate. It favours a pulp sensibility with clunky exposition to explain Stark's existence, but <I>The Dark Half</I> is a laudable effort from everyone involved. <I>--Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com</I>
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£12.99
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DARK HALF
18 author: ; publisher: MGMD
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£12.99
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Hodder & Stoughton Ltd The Dark Half
In 1985, 39-year-old Stephen King announced in public that his pseudonymous alter ego, Richard Bachman, was dead. (Never mind that he revived him years later to write <I>The Regulators</I>.) At the beginning of <I>The Dark Half</I>, 39-year-old writer Thad Beaumont announces in public that his own pseudonym, George Stark, is dead. <p> Now, King didn't want to jettison the Bachman novel, titled Machine Dreams, that was he working on. So he incorporated it in <I>The Dark Half</I> as the crime oeuvre of George Stark, whose recurring hero/alter ego is an evil character named Alexis Machine. <p> Thad Beaumont's pseudonym is not so docile as Stephen King's, though, and George Stark bursts forth into reality. At that point, two stories kick into gear: a mystery-detective story about the crime spree of George Stark (or is it Alexis Machine?) and a horror story about Beaumont's struggle to catch up with his doppelganger and kill him dead. <p> This is not the first time that Stephen King has written a dark allegory about the fiction writer's situation. As the New York Times writes, <I>Misery </I> (1987) is a parable in chiller form of the popular writer's relation to his audience, which holds him prisoner and dictates what he writes, on pain of death. <I>The Dark Half</I> is a parable in chiller form of the popular writer's relation to his creative genius, the vampire within him, the part of him that only awakes to raise Cain when he writes, the fratricidal twin who occupies the womblike dungeon of his imagination. --<I>Fiona Webster</I>
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£6.39
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The Dark Half (Wide Screen)
The Dark Half (Wide Screen) DVD Region 2 The Dark Half (Wide Screen), Catalogue Number: 21226DVD, Release Date: 22/10/2001
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£11.99
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Inner Traditions Bear and Company Pagan Mysteries of Halloween: Celebrating the Dark Half of the Year
Pages: 176, Paperback, Inner Traditions Bear and Company
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£13.99
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Varese Sarabande Young The Dark Half
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£11.99
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