And for all that, the green goblin semi is still iconic.

The irony is that everyone remembers this movie, and nobody remembers his version of The Shinning.

Hey, I remember his version of the Shining!

That shit was bonkers! And what's even better is that King was proud of it.

Sounds like we need ourselves a Steven King Appreciation Week.

King's nuts, this movie is a masterpiece.

It's got its charms, and as a child of the first-gen Transformers cartoon, I had no problem accepting "living" cars. I just wondered how the walkman and hair dryers managed to get animated cords with which to attack their users. I mean, okay, a walkman has batteries to run off of, but if a hair dryer yanks itself out of the wall, wouldn't that kill it?

Or am I putting more thought and less cocaine into this than King did?

I think it also needs to be said that this film is impeccably cast. Anyone who's read a good deal of King's books (especially his older to mid-period stuff) knows that he is all about characters. He creates some of the best characters in literature, I think, regardless of the overall quality of the story, and this movie just does Stephen King characters PERFECT. The only other movie I can think of that gets King characters that right would be Christine, despite being a weak film.

The Dark Half movie nailed the book down, imso.