It seems to me that Steven King has run out of ideas for his
horror novels. After "Carrie" and "The Shining" most of his
stories center around the DEVIL terrifing all of the people
in a town ,killing most of them and finally disappearing or
being stopped by someone who finds some way to stop all of his
supernatural hijinks.
The latest disappointment was "DESPERATION" that ABC showed
on their network last night. Women screamed at every snake and
spider and Ron Pearlman was good as the possessed Sheriff of the
town in Nevada that had killed almost everyone living there
so he had began to patrol the highway ,bringing in new blood
to terminate.Other actors were Tom Skerritt and Steven Webber
who were good in their roles but could not save a bad story
from being boring rather than horrific.
How does King keep getting so many stories on TV and into
movie houses? He does produce a bunch of material every year.
In the beginning he wrote horror with his home state of Maine
as the location. Still with Devilish forces working against
the good guys but being destroyed in the end by someone with
a BIBLE hidden away in their backpack or in their house.
My pick for a good movie or TV program in the mystery/horror
category would be one written by DEAN KOONTZ. He writes a lot
of good stuff. Maybe his "House of Thunder" would make a good
hour long TV program or a one and a half hour movie.
P.S. Okay it's not "Steven".....it's "Stephen" I stand
corrected. (See comments # 6 or 7.)