Posted on 07/13/2019 6:27:36 PM PDT by EdnaMode
With Midsommar earning raves and performing well at the box office, horror has never been hotter. And if, as Justin Chang argued in the Los Angeles Times back in 2017, horror has become the defining genre of the Trump presidency, then Stephen King is its patron saint. The master of horrors many works have seen renewed interest thanks to a slew of successful adaptations, from the box office record-breaker It, to its much-hyped follow-up It: Chapter Two, and many more projects currently in the works. And while the master of horror certainly is the king of scary set-ups, he says theres one scenario so terrifying even he couldnt improve upon it: Donald Trumps presidency.
During an interview with NowThisNews, King laughed after being asked whether he thought the Trump presidency was scarier than one of his novels. Short answer to that is, yes, I do. I do think its scarier, he said.
However, King did concede that he predicted a similar authoritarian figure with similarities to the president might come to power in his 1979 book The Dead Zone, later adapted into a film by David Cronenberg in 1983.
I was sort of convinced that it was possible that a politician would arise who was so outside the mainstream and so willing to say anything that he would capture the imaginations of the American people, he said.
The Dead Zone features a power-hungry businessman-turned-politician named Greg Stillson, played by Martin Sheen. King described the character as someone who said crazy stuff that nobody would possibly believe or so we thought, until Donald Trump came along.
My worry at the time that I wrote The Dead Zone was that somebody like Greg Stillson might actually get elected and rise through the ranks, become president of the United States and start World War III, King added. But we do seem to have a Greg Stillson as president of the United States.
Watch the full interview with King below.
Actually, I could very well see how a president like Trump would scare the crap out of a socialist or communist. 8 years in office will set their agenda back 50 years.
“METEOR SH*T!”
Oh, wait...
His body of work is quite lame.
Theyre quite happy to do it for free. Back in the GWB years, his wife wore a Bush is an international terrorist shirt. I bet they adore him now.
King has fallen back to his drug taking days. He even looks scary.
I really loathe that guy. I used to like his novels, now I couldn’t care less.
King should emigrate to Zimbabwe.
Stephen King can KM Lily-white @$$.
Actually, if youve seen a recent photo of Stephen King, the only thing scarier than Stephen Kings books is Stephen Kings face.
Not exaggerating.
Trump is much BETTER than any of King’s novels.
The word you’re looking for is BETTER, Stephen.
Never read anything written by Stephen King. I don’t think he can persuade me of anything.
He’s just jealous because Trump’s swimming pool is bigger than his.
King is a brilliant horror story teller and novelist. But when it comes to politics, like most celebrities, he is out of his league.
America is doing great and King is horrified. They live in their bubble of delusions like a fruit fly caught under the lid of a jam jar.
Yes, he does have the talent for that genre. No one can compare. Like John le Carre in spy lit.
King is full of IT.
All from a demented writer
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