The Dark Half (Blu-ray) R
There are very good reasons to be afraid of the dark.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 2 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 18, 2014
- Originally Released: 1993
- Label: Shout Factory
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Timothy Hutton | |
Performer: | Michael Rooker, Amy Madigan, Julie Harris, Robert Joy, Beth Grant, Rutanya Alda, Chelsea Field & Royal Dano | |
Directed by | George A. Romero | |
Edited by | Pasquale Buba | |
Screenplay by | George A. Romero | |
Original story by | Stephen King | |
Composition by | Christopher Young | |
Cinematography by | Tony Pierce-Roberts |
Entertainment Reviews:
...It certainly ranks as one of the top King adaptations...
Variety
The scenes are so beautifully done that Hitchcock might have admired them, or at least their technical facility.
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New York Times
Rating: 2/5 --
This is too well-made and acted to be a total failure, and even the formulaic slasher scenes are handled with creepy aplomb.
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Empire Magazine
...An exceptionally entertaining film....Outdistances every other King adaptation [besides THE SHINING]...
New York Times
The Dark Half ends as a Stephen King movie only a George Stark could love.
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Rolling Stone
Rating: 2/4 --
another variation on the Monkey Shines conceit of Jungian shadows and Freudian id manifestations
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Film Freak Central
It's a strong conceit, but precisely how it's linked to a feather-brained subplot about the black-outs and aural hallucinations Thad suffered as a child remains obscure.
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Time Out
Product Description:
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' Could the murders be somehow connected to the fragments of a undeveloped twin removed from Thad's brain when he was a boy' When the sheriff (Michael Rooker) finds Thad's fingerprints at the crime scenes, the unsuspecting author's life spins increasingly out of control. Director George Romero adapts frequent collaborator Stephen King's 1989 best-seller into a tight mainstream thriller with a fine dual performance from Hutton.