Grateful for all the happiness this absolute legend gave the world. She’s what my friends and I call a never-bad. To be the best thing in just about everything you’ve been in for 45+ years is incredible. RIP Catherine O’Hara.

Happy birthday to a real one. Miss you, buddy.

What a fucking gut punch it is to hear about Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele. The man made the gold standard of damn near every genre he approached. Coming of age movies all try to measure up to Stand By Me, mockumentaries to Spinal Tap, rom-coms to When Harry Met Sally.

If nothing else The Duffers got this right: Peanut Butter Boppers fucking ruled.

My two nerddoms unite.

Caught Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein on the big screen tonight. What a treat. Sad, romantic, deeply human, and a flat out extraordinary performance from Jacob Elordi.

Follow along with Watching IT: Welcome to Derry. @brezwrites.bsky.social and I will be going in depth on each episode of the HBO series each week. What we liked, what we didn’t, connections to the original novel, etc. Links to YouTube, Spotify, et al below! www.fangoria.com/kingcast-hos...

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Don’t know why the hell I have to go all the way to Japan to get a real Jaws section at a Universal Park, but this is so damn cool. And yes, I’m doing the ride later today. Of course I am.

Universal Japan is wild for this one. After his failures on the Fourth of July? Smdh.

Rest in Peace to the great Drew Struzan, a man whose work sparked the imaginations of a whole generation of movie nerds. The master is gone. I had the privilege of visiting him in his studio once and getting to talk shop. Here’s his words on one of his masterpieces:

Kels and I are off to Japan tomorrow! First time for the both of us. Any tips and food/restaurant recommendations appreciated! We’ll be in Osaka and Tokyo and I want to eat all the ramen! Go!

I did a thing. Incredible friends, wonderful location, and a beautiful bride. I’m a lucky guy.

New Gore Verbinski alert! Saw Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die and it’s an incredibly entertaining satire about time travel, AI, pie, and the sad state of modern tech addiction. Sam Rockwell leads a great cast through a straight up bonkers save-the-world adventure. Out in theaters in January.

This is true and it weirdly works super well. Didn’t expect to end up rooting for the crazed ax murderer, but it was a welcome surprise. Dug this one a lot.

Happy birthday, boss! Hope you don’t have to share your cake.

I really dug the latest VHS. Halloween is definitely my vibe and it’s going to be a great regular seasonal watch. Casper Kelly’s segment brings all the Too Many Cooks style weirdness and is super gory and funny. Not a bad segment in the bunch!

Had a great time chatting with both lovely people. The live show should be available within the next week on your podcatcher of choice.

First movie of Fantastic Fest 2025: Primate. What if Koko instead of Cujo? Rabid chimp terrorizes family in a fancy Hawaiian mountaintop house. Unapologetically gory studio horror flick that will for sure get crowds squirming in their seats when it comes out in January.

Fantastic Fest! Come out to the live Kingcast show at The Highball this Saturday, September 20th at 3:30pm. I’ll be chatting with two very promising genre filmmakers, Chris Stuckmann (Shelby Oaks) and Mercedes Bryce Morgan (Bone Lake) about some Stephen King shit. It’s gonna be fun!

If you see this, post a monster. (IYKYK)

Wrapped up another screening for The Long Walk and got to experience another audience emotionally destroyed! Thanks to @lionsgate.com and @fangoria.bsky.social for setting up the screening and @ryanscottwrites.bsky.social for helping with the post-screening discussion!

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We’re mowing some lawns on The Kingcast next week. Prepare yourselves. #jobehasrisen

I regret to inform you that after over 40 years of avoiding it, your boy is starting to dip his toe into playing Magic: The Gathering. The nerd curve is rough, but I think this might be a problem if I keep enjoying myself the way I have been.

Looks like us Fallout fans are gonna be eating good this December. youtu.be/7TsP09cZA7o?...

Very much this. Also horror can be AAA at, like, $40 million. The Avatar of horror movies would still cost less than a random shitty Sony Spider-Man villain spinoff movie.

We’d be unstoppable. Or unbearable. Or unbearably unstoppable.

Had a nice long chat about all things King plus some soap box stepping as the lefty in me came out a few times. Give it a listen!

Ben Barnes is on The Kingcast this week. He’s a charmer and has some great insight to Stephen King’s text. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

At a screening of Caught Stealing where The Man in Black is interviewing the guy who’s going to direct Cujo and… well, Austin Butler.

Los Angeles! Ready to join The Long Walk with The Kingcast? Come see the movie early on August 19th (ka) and hear our chat with screenwriter JT Mollner about finally bringing this @stephenking.bsky.social classic to the big screen! @lionsgate.com RSVP now: bit.ly/kingcastscre...

He’s being very generous here, but I think it’s time to go egg Vanity Fair’s HQ, don’t you? Seriously though, Brez’s work ethic is incomparable and I’ve seen first hand how much talent responds to his interview style. Nobody writes a good deep dive movie nerd piece like he does, too.

Big fan of Weapons. Love to see this level of craft, character, and world-building in a horror flick. Best to go in cold, of course, but will say it sticks the landing.

Together is out this weekend. It’s good! Go see it if you’re not squeamish. Haven’t seen Naked Gun yet but I’m very eager to do so.

Together is out this weekend. It’s good! Go see it if you’re not squeamish. Haven’t seen Naked Gun yet but I’m very eager to do so.

Attention! Go check your podcast feeds for a brand spankin’ new episode of The Kingcast with the legendary director of The Blob, Nightmare 3, and The Mask, Chuck Russell! We talk Darabont, Shawshank, his newest flick Witchboard, the occult, and much more!

Good #SDCC day. @ericvespe.bsky.social and I hosted The Long Walk panel in Hall H. 🚶‍♂️ 🚶 🚶‍♀️ 💥 @markhamillofficial.bsky.social stole the show. Obviously. @stephenking.bsky.social warns: this film has “some hard bark on it.”

I interviewed Winona a while back and we spent the first third of the chat discussing our cat’s heritage (her cat’s lineage had been in her family since before she was born). Protect this woman at all costs.

After @brezwrites.bsky.social and I left the stage we got to hang out with the cast and filmmakers for a few minutes and let me tell you, it’s such a treat to watch @markhamillofficial.bsky.social hold court. What a whirlwind day. Thanks to @lionsgate.com for having us.

Just wrapped up the Comic-Con panel for The Long Walk. Hope everybody in Hall H enjoys the first 22 minutes of the movie! Funnily enough, they had to black out a particularly brutal first death in the movie. Too intense for SDCC! The movie does not flinch, trust me!

Our panel on The Long Walk is imminent! If I can maintain a walking speed of 3mph I should get there in time. See you soon, Hall H!

Among the greatest promotional photos of all time are these for the 1990 television movie of IT, where it looks like a prestige legal drama about a firm of hot young lawyers and one associate who likes to dress up like a clown.

Best part of the SDCC show floor are all the weird little collectible booths. Movie posters, OOP soundtracks, toys, books, etc. I nabbed this great Cycle of the Werewolf promo poster from 1985 tonight!

On my way to Comic-Con for the first time since leaving Ain’t It Cool. The Kingcast is moderating the Long Walk panel this Friday in Hall H! Gonna be pretty epic!

Holy jumped-up bald headed Jesus palomino! Always so happy to see @sgj.bsky.social and @ericvespe.bsky.social together. It’s moments like these that make me feel lucky to live in Austin. Also, what an honor to witness the first Gary Busey screening at @austinfilm.bsky.social. Goodnight, Marty.

Tonight at the AFS Cinema! Watch a movie, listen to two nerds talk about it, and pick up a copy of SGJ’s newest book!

THE DEAD LANDS author Benjamin Percy is working on a new experiment and Stephen King will be contributing to the post-apocalyptic saga. Read more right here.

Oh, I also saw the new I Know What You Did Last Summer. My thoughtful, well-reasoned critique: