Timothy Hutton
Thad Beaumont / George Stark
Thad Beaumont is the author of a highly successful series of violent pulp thrillers written under the pseudonym of ‘George Stark’, but when he decides to ‘kill-off’ his alter-ego in a mock ceremony, it precipitates a string of sadistic murders matching those in his pulp novels, which are soon discovered to be the work of Stark himself. Looking like a maniacal version of his counterpart, Stark is not so willing to quit the writing game – even if it means coming after Thad's wife and their baby.
Release Date | 1993-04-23 |
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Runtime | 2h 2m |
Directors | George A. Romero, Tony Pierce-Roberts, Michael Spiller, Nicholas Mastandrea, Drew Ann Rosenberg, Tom Dubensky |
Producers | Declan Baldwin, Christine Forrest, Peter Kuran, George A. Romero, Richard Hawley |
Writers | George A. Romero, Stephen King |
A visually spectacular ending, but one that delivers little in the way of answers, and doesn't change a so-so beginning and middle of a film in any way that's meaningfully satisfactory.
Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole.
— Gimly