Overview
How do you read a play that makes you go insane? In this modern adaptation of the 1895 short stories by Robert W. Chambers, three grad students come up with a plan to split the dangerous work into thirds to safely perform research on the notorious play, The King in Yellow. But events take a sinister turn when one of them reads more than just their share.
Director and cast
More films
Evil Dead II (1987)
Comedy · Fantasy · Horror · R
Ash Williams and his girlfriend Linda find a log cabin in the woods with a voice recording from an archeologist who had recorded himself reciting ancient chants from "The Book of the Dead." As they play the recording an evil power is unleashed taking over Linda's body.
- Runtime
- 1h 24m
- Director
- Sam Raimi
- Cast
- Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks
Army of Darkness (1992)
Comedy · Fantasy · Horror · R
Ash, a handsome, shotgun-toting, chainsaw-armed department store clerk, is time warped backwards into England's Dark Ages, where he romances a beauty and faces legions of the undead.
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- Director
- Sam Raimi
- Cast
- Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert
The Thing (1982)
Horror · Mystery · Science Fiction · R
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
- Runtime
- 1h 49m
- Director
- John Carpenter
- Cast
- Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter
In the Mouth of Madness (1995)
Horror · Mystery · R
An insurance investigator visits a small town while looking into the strange disappearance of a popular horror novelist. He soon finds that the impact of the author’s books is far more than inspirational.
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Director
- John Carpenter
- Cast
- Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow
Prince of Darkness (1987)
Horror · R
A priest discovers an ancient canister containing a strange liquid in an abandoned church. When a group of graduate students and scientists are tasked with studying it, they unknowingly unleash an evil force waiting to destroy all of humanity.
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Director
- John Carpenter
- Cast
- Donald Pleasence, Lisa Blount, Victor Wong
Comments
Talk about the film with other members