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 horror’s 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 there’s one scenario so terrifying even he couldn’t improve upon it: Donald Trump’s 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 it’s 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.
Steve keeps writing the same story and retards keep buying it.
100%, Robert McCammon was a much better writer and scary as hell... my two favorites Swan Song (1987) - Co-winner of the 1987 Bram Stoker Award [6] and nominated for the 1988 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel;[7] the first of his novels to appear on the New York Times Bestseller List
Stinger (1988) - Nominated for the 1988 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel; New York Times Bestseller
Most of his novels are convoluted, fractured and therefore difficult to follow. However, I stopped reading his hysteria years ago and maybe he is better now. THE only novel I really enjoyed was Misery which kind of reminds me of Nancy Pelosi in charge of the House.
The Trump Presidency is actually much better than any of Steven King’s novels
'Salems Lot was kinda scary (I was young).
But not as scary as his face.
The President is only scary to one-world pinkos.
I used to listen to that radio station years ago.
Gordon Liddy’s radio show was on that AM station....until crazy Stevie bought the station.
When is the last time this moron had a best seller?
Can’t wait for his next book:
Stephen King, the master of horror that isn’t all that scary, present a novel of terror that only he can write. Imaging American, being ran by a reality show billionaire, who doesnt listen to knowitall dumbasses that aren’t successful. A President that calls the media liars when they lie about him. A President that dares to have with higher employment for blacks and minorities, and a soaring economy! A President who enforces the law all the while being framed for crimes he didn’t commit and they still can’t get rid of him. A President who dares to want to establish a goal to make the country that he lives in, greater than it ever was, A country where has been liberals like Mr. King can’t stop acting like little bitchs when they don’t get their socialist leaders in power, . Stephen King presents ‘SH!T!’ A novel that says it all about how washed up liberals think. Stephen King writes ‘SH!T!’
over the last two years the trump justice department has been putting low level Pedo who connect to the upper class into jail. I think a lot of the hate out of Hollywood politicians and other connected people is because they are being blackmailed by people like Epstein and other operatives.
Trump also scares them because for the last 30 years his hotels have had to put up with this stuff going on and they no that even though played along to survive he never liked it and did not allow it at his hotels and golf courses.
I thought the Mr. Mercedes trilogy was very good. The best stuff he has written in years.
Well, I beg to differ. I disagree with his politics, but most of his books are brilliant.
When I was younger, I actually read two of his books before I realized King couldn’t craft an ending to save his nuts from being remodeled with nail clippers and a ball peen hammer.
I don’t read him anymore but I once read a few.
He cracked up a roomful men who love him the most, book salesmen, one time by saying he likes to set his novels in the Midwest, because the reality is a little thinner out there. Probably the reps in the Midwest laughing the hardest.
I agree. The man is not a good writer, much less a great one.
His forte is to start out sounding normal and then supersock you with the horror at an unexpected moment.
I never read Stephen King novels, nor watch any of his films. He has zero influence with me-—or my cats.
[[His novels sucked. NONE were scary.]]
Agreed- they were childish in imagination, and seriously yawn worthy-
In every book I ever read or movie I’ve watched by King, he mocks Christians, makes them evil. Every single one, until I stopped watching or reading them.
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