Stephen King Collection - DVD

Four-disc set includes Christine (1983)She's a 1958 Plymouth with jealousy and evil under her hood, but Arnie Cunningham (Keith Gordon) isn't aware of his new ride's demonic qualities when he buys her, lovingly restores her, and names her InchChristine.Inch As the nerdish teen turns into a cocky braggart who scores with a popular girl (Alexandra Paul), Christine grows violently possessive of her new owner. Harry Dean Stanton, Roberts Blossom co-star in this John Carpenter shocker based on Stephen King's best-seller. 110 min. C/Rtg R Stand By Me (1986)Low-key sleeper hit, directed by Rob Reiner and based on the novella InchThe BodyInch by Stephen, follows four young boys (River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell, Wil Wheaton) in 1959 Oregon who set out on a Labor Day camping trip in order to see a dead body one of them accidentally found. Along the way the friends take some hesitant steps on the road to maturity. Co-stars Kiefer Sutherland, Casey Siemaszko, John Cusack; Richard Dreyfuss is the narrator. 89 min. C/Rtg R Sleepwalkers (1992)In his first film written directly for the screen, Stephen King tells the story of small-town teenager Charles Brady (Brian Krause) and his beautiful mother (Alice Krige), who may appear perfectly normal but turn into catlike demons called InchsleepwalkersInch who need to extract the lifeforce from virgins to stay alive. After Charles falls for a school beauty (Mädchen Amick), can he resist his primitive desire to make her another victim? Diabolical and erotic thriller co-stars Lyman Ward, Cindy Pickett, Ron Perlman. 89 min. C/Rtg R Apt Pupil (1998)After he discovers that an elderly neighbor was a notorious Nazi death camp officer, a teenager obsessed with the Holocaust blackmails the man into graphically recounting the horrors of his past crimes. The cat-and-mouse game between the two reaches a murderous intensity in this sus

Eight-disc set includes The Dead Zone (1983)David Cronenberg directs this suspenser from Stephen King's novel about a schoolteacher (Christopher Walken) who awakens from a five-year coma to discover he has the ability to see a person's future simply by coming into physical contact with him or her. When he's recruited to help the police solve a murder, the horrific psychic visions he experiences make him wonder if his new abilities are a gift or a curse. Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Herbert Lom, and Martin Sheen star. 103 min. C/Rtg R Stephen King's Silver Bullet (1985)Based on the Stephen King novella InchCycle of the Werewolf,Inch this intense chiller concerns a small town with a hairy problem. When the residents in the community become terrorized by a werewolf, a paralytic boy, his older sister, and his uncle are forced to try to stop the beast at all costs. Gary Busey, Everett McGill, Corey Haim, Megan Follows star. 95 min. C/Rtg R Pet Sematary (1989)Spirits moan among the tombstones as Stephen King adapts his own best-seller about a mysterious Indian burial ground with resurrective powers. After the graveyard brings the Creeds' cat back from the dead, the family patriarch hopes it will do the same for his recently deceased son. But when the boy returns as a bloodthirsty murderer, it's up to dad to stop his reign of terror. Dale Midkiff, Denise Crosby, Brad Greenquist, and Fred Gwynne star. 103 min. C/Rtg R Stephen King's Graveyard Shift (1990)From the chillingly prolific pen of Stephen King comes this terrifying tale about a small town where several employees at a recently reopened textile mill have mysteriously died... all during the overnight shift. And when a new hire is sent into the building's basement to deal with a rat infestation, he discovers an underground labyrinth that is home to a giant monster that just might be to blame for the mill's gruesome tu

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