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The Dark Half Details

1993 Certificate 18
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Thad Beaumont (Timothy Hutton) is a happily married family man with a successfully two-faced career as a writer. On the one hand, he publishes respected but poorly-selling scholarly works under his own name. It is under the name George Stark, however, that he sells millions of books with his signature strain of extremely .. Read more

Starring Timothy Hutton, Amy Madigan, Julie Harris, Michael Rooker
Director George A. Romero
Genres Horror

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The Dark Half

Thad Beaumont (Timothy Hutton) is a happily married family man with a successfully two-faced career as a writer. On the one hand, he publishes respected but poorly-selling scholarly works under his own name. It is under the name George Stark, however, that he sells millions of books with his signature strain of extremely violent action novels. When Thad makes the decision to write only under his own name, he stages a PR-friendly burial for his pen name which receives prominent media coverage. After this event, it's not long before townspeople somehow connected to Thad start turning up dead, with all clues pointing to the unassuming author. Is there a second party trying to frame Thad

Starring Timothy Hutton, Amy Madigan, Julie Harris, Michael Rooker
Director George A. Romero
Studio MGM ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 56 mins
Certificate Certificate 18
Genres Horror
Language DVD: English
Hearing-impaired English, German
Subtitles DVD: Danish, English, Norwegian, Swedish
Released DVD: 22 Oct 2001
Production year: 1993
Format DVD

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  • 3 stars out of 5

    Cult zombie director George A Romero liberally sprays round the scare freshener in his adaptation of Stephen King's popular horror novel. Timothy Hutton does his finest work in years as bestselling writer Thad Beaumont, whose emerging supernatural side manifests itself in the form of a brutal serial killer and starts stalking the New England family home. Sadly, after Romero successfully develops the premise, making it both possible and frightening by twisting the usual slasher genre conventions, he spoils the build-up with a ridiculously overblown ending. Compelling stuff until it goes wildly off its apocalyptic rails.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • Proof that not all films derived from Stephen King's books need be intellectually banal and cinematically dull.... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

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  • Rated - 4 stars

    keeps you on the edge a classic stephen king, like all his stories worth a watch

      • guy#8 from YEOVIL
      • Posted 21 Jan 2004 20:47

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  • Rated - 2 stars

    Not as good as the book...

    It's fair to say that films are never as good as the novels they're based on and this film really highlights that fact.

    I read the book (which is fantastic) and couldn't wait to see the film, but i was utterly disappointed.

    I know that directors have their own take on the book and they usually stick to their own perception but in my opinion the film left out some crucial details and changed some if the characters characters i.e in the book George Stark is someone to be afraid of and intimidated by but in the film he is just cheesy and laughable.

    In my opinion this film really let the book down and definitely could have been so much better.

      • l4ur4 from Hull
      • Posted 14 Jun 2009 16:31

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