Doctor Gash's Trip Back to The 80's

I enjoyed Dread Central’s “Doctor Gash's Tip of the Scalpel: A Tribute to Stephen King Part 2.”  It is a time warp back to the 80's.

We all know that this was a particularly productive era for King, giving us the first glimpse of The Dark Tower, Fire Starter, Cujo, IT and so much more.  The article focuses particularly on Misery as a center piece to King’s work in the 80's.

It was also an era of Stephen King movies.  It seemed in those days if King wrote it, someone was ready to fork over the money to put it on screen.  Compare that to these days, when if King wrote it, someone is ready to talk about putting up the money to get it on that big screen.

When discussing The Runningman movie, Dr. Gash points out that it starred not one, but two U.S. Governors: Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesse Ventura.  The Running Man’s similarities to The Hunger Games is not lost on the good doctor, who writes, “One can only speculate how much, if any, inspiration Suzanne Collins drew from The Running Man for her uber-hit The Hunger Games books, but one does have to acknowledge the similarities.”

Dr. Gash calls 1982 and 1983 the most impressive years of the decade.  King gave us: The Dark Tower, Christine, Pet Sematery, Cycle of the Warewolf. . . and the list goes on.

I enjoyed this article a lot.  I wish Dr. Gash had honed in closer to IT, as I think it is actually the center piece of the decade.

The full article is HERE.