A good example of the good ole B movie recipe : - Take a major studio who buys anything Stephen King wrote, including whatever his trash bin may contains. - Take a medium budget from the studio. Take a good writer who is able to get something out of the five lines long King story and can also direct a movie for the same price. - Take a movie star who spend too much time in Europe the last years. - shot the thing in Canada to reduce even more the cost - put some sound effect every fiftheen seconds - screen-test it over and over and remove the last remains of quality.
...and you'll get a nice and clean B movie with a wide theatrical release.
Don't mind if it was already shot 15 years earlier on a similar story* wrote by Stephen King, in the same environment, with the same character and pretty much the same story (although the end was the exact opposite) by a George A.Romero in a bad turn of his carrier. Back then the movie was called : The Dark Half (1993) and the leading role was held by Timothy Hutton. Timothy Hutton who happened to be one of the cast of Secret Window ! Is it cynicism or lack of ideas, or both ?
...and you'll get a nice and clean B movie with a wide theatrical release.
Don't mind if it was already shot 15 years earlier on a similar story* wrote by Stephen King, in the same environment, with the same character and pretty much the same story (although the end was the exact opposite) by a George A.Romero in a bad turn of his carrier. Back then the movie was called : The Dark Half (1993) and the leading role was held by Timothy Hutton. Timothy Hutton who happened to be one of the cast of Secret Window ! Is it cynicism or lack of ideas, or both ?
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