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Grab your your board and your best girl(s) - we’re going to Beachworld! Adapted in 2019 from a story of same name, Jackie Perez’s Beachworld tells the story of two members of a spaceship crew marooned on a desert planet. There’s only sand as far as the eye can see, and yet the sand itself seems to hold a certain…allure…yes… After the break we take a look at the source material, which was first pub...

The boy that would be Hill. This week on Hill of the King we're discussing old Christmas creeps, M-O-O-N guys, and how one son who dared to look exactly like his father. Enjoy! Get weekly episodes and request movies on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/kingmepod Email us at: kingmepod@gmail.com Letterboxd https://letterboxd.com/kingmepod/ Subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes: https://itunes.apple....

Here there be a King Me Baby about a story written by a Baby King! No, not the Christ Child in his manger, but Stephen King circa high school. At the risk of spoiling this story, let's just say there are scarier things that can happen in a bathroom than finding a bobcat. Our adaptation from 2017 is brief without really sacrificing any plot elements...and still it feels thin. Maybe this says more a...

This week's short story is about the dangers of picking up hitchhikers and sexy underwear. Get weekly episodes and request movies on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/kingmepod Email us at: kingmepod@gmail.com Letterboxd https://letterboxd.com/kingmepod/ Subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/king-me/id1071620322?mt=2 Subscribe & rate on Spotify: https://open.spo...

Sometimes dead is better. This is a generic, grey movie version of our theme song. Get weekly episodes and request movies on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/kingmepod Email us at: kingmepod@gmail.com Letterboxd https://letterboxd.com/kingmepod/ Subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/king-me/id1071620322?mt=2 Subscribe & rate on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com...

This week's baby is really sad and you know how your boys love sad stuff. People keeping track of the ranking pay close attention! Get weekly episodes and request movies on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/kingmepod Email us at: kingmepod@gmail.com Letterboxd https://letterboxd.com/kingmepod/ Subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/king-me/id1071620322?mt=2 Subsc...

Look at that young man over there! He looks like he's in love. Smiling away with his flowers and hammer. Get weekly episodes and request movies on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/kingmepod Email us at: kingmepod@gmail.com Letterboxd https://letterboxd.com/kingmepod/ Subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/king-me/id1071620322?mt=2 Subscribe & rate on Spotify: ht...

Here it is. The end of season 2 of MR. MERCEDES. Brady's been in a coma controlling people through telepathy and he become a lawnmower man. These are wild swings. It's a good thing they ditch all of that in the last two episodes for something completely different. Get weekly episodes and request movies on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/kingmepod Email us at: kingmepod@gmail.com Letterboxd https:...

Tucked away in the middle of Stephen King's short story collection Skeleton Crew is "Paranoid: A Chant," a 100-line poem from the point of view of a narrator who has fully given over his brain to conspiracy theories involving shadowy government agencies. This poem - this poem - was adapted into a short film in 2000, and in the most 2000 way possible. Lots of browns and yellows in the color palate,...

This week's baby is a no-budget adaptation of I AM THE DOORWAY and it's pretty good. Get weekly episodes and request movies on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/kingmepod Email us at: kingmepod@gmail.com Letterboxd https://letterboxd.com/kingmepod/ Subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/king-me/id1071620322?mt=2 Subscribe & rate on Spotify: https://open.spotify.c...

Something is amiss in Bridgton, Ohio. Relatively straightforward cat-and-mouse detective stories are vanishing at a troubling rate. Season two of MR. MERCEDES is a departure from season one - mostly not for the better. Still, we find ourselves relishing any opportunity to get our Glees on. This episode also features an interview with Spanish film star Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men, Bicky C...

What's that smell? It's GRAY MATTER of course. Get weekly episodes and request movies on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/kingmepod Email us at: kingmepod@gmail.com Letterboxd https://letterboxd.com/kingmepod/ Subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/king-me/id1071620322?mt=2 Subscribe & rate on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5fWr5bSjFLtCDRda6oCeIW?si=84c3...

What a silly idea for a story. What if a finger was poking out of your sink drain? This week’s baby is from the series MONSTERS. It features Tom Noonan being driven insane by one little finger in the drain. It’s very silly and you know how we feel about that. Get weekly episodes and request movies on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/kingmepod Email us at: kingmepod@gmail.com Letterboxd https://let...

Does this series pay off everything it's been setting up? Of course not. This week on King Me, it's one of the most boring things we've ever covered, CASTLE ROCK SEASON 1 PART 2. But we did have fun destroying this piece. Get weekly episodes and request movies on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/kingmepod Email us at: kingmepod@gmail.com Letterboxd https://letterboxd.com/kingmepod/ Subscribe, rate...

We're trying something different this week. Enjoy the this conversation about the adaptation of THE REVELATIONS OF BECKA PAULSON. To hear us discuss the short story check out our patreon. Get weekly episodes and request movies on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/kingmepod Email us at: kingmepod@gmail.com Letterboxd https://letterboxd.com/kingmepod/ Subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes: https://it...

This week's episode is for the die hard King Me fans. The ones that like to hear Dan and Rob go off on every tangent. This week we're "discussing" the Hulu original series CASTLE ROCK (2018). It was a show marketed as sort of a Stephen King shared universe. What it turned out to be was a boring waste of time. This show is so boring, Rob took an edible before recording because he just wanted to fee...

Get your scythes and sickles shapened as we discuss our TENTH (!) corn kids movie. We hope they never stop making these movies. We talk a lot about Clu Gulagar, conspiracy theories, Bill Clinton in a dress and as always, Brahms the Boy. Get weekly episodes and request movies on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/kingmepod Email us at: kingmepod@gmail.com Letterboxd https://letterboxd.com/kingmepod/...

Boy, this episode title's looking like a damn secret code. Join us as we surf a wave of rats out of our first 100 episodes with a discussion of Zak Hilditch's 1922. We dare not spoil whether Slimer is in the movie, but we have no qualms giving you a content warning that Brahms the Boy enters into the conversation. Get weekly episodes and request movies on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/kingmepod...

You are cordially invited to the coronation of an all-time Scary Guy. Get weekly episodes and request movies on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/kingmepod Email us at: kingmepod@gmail.com Letterboxd https://letterboxd.com/kingmepod/ Subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/king-me/id1071620322?mt=2 Subscribe & rate on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5fWr5bS...

Out from behind the paywall is the first episode of our new weekly series, King Me Babies, in which we discuss short films produced as part of Stephen King's Dollar Baby program. You've probably heard us mention the Dollar Babies on the show: since the late '70s, Stephen King has allowed independent filmmakers to produce non-commercial adaptations of select works of his for the low, low price of o...

27 years after we recorded our episode about IT (1990), we return to talk about IT (2017), which we feel has more heart than the original, and we’re certain has more clown drool. Plus, our old friend, the kooky old Iberian lethario himself, Javier Bardem stops by to talk in an ever-evolving accent about his recent project, COVID-diecinueve. Get weekly episodes and request movies on our Patreon: ht...

Like so many Brady Hartsfelds before us, we have become unraveled by thinking about Brendan Gleeson for too long. As we close out our discussion of season one of Mr. Mercedes (an AT&T Original Series), we are deep in our silly boy bag. Vintage King Me. Get weekly episodes and request movies on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/kingmepod Email us at: kingmepod@gmail.com Letterboxd https://letterboxd...

Join us as we discuss Mr. Mercedes, and attempt to put our lives back together in the aftermath of The Mist (2017). We’re only five episodes in, but the front half of this…uh…AT&T Original Series…has us feeling pretty good. We’ve got actual characters, a coherent plot, and high quality needle drops. Get weekly episodes and request movies on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/kingmepod Email us at: k...

GRAMLINS?! The second episode of our Joe Dante miniseries covers an absolute masterpiece in the canon of both of our favorite genres: kids’ horror comedy and live action cartoon genre. This ep is all about heaping praise on a perfect movie, and a bit of Old-Man-Yells-At-Cloud lamentation about the current state of the studio comedy feature film. More important than anything we have to say about th...

We…DO talk about the book? Clearly we’ve forgotten the faces of our fathers. Given the stature of the Dark Tower series within Stephen King’s body of work (and given that these are some of the only books Dan’s ever read), we had no choice but to break the King Me Promise and discuss the source material for this one. If it helps at all, Dan seems to only barely remember them. There’s also plenty of...