Oh man. This was probably the hardest one we've done so far. There's very little going on in this weeks movie, THE DIARY OF ELLEN RIMBAUER. If you saw Rose Red and thought to yourself, "I wish all these flashback scene were compiled into it's own movie without adding anything new", you're in luck. It's crazy that this even got made. But it's ok cause we talk about Toto's Africa for quite a bit. Rate/review/subscribe to King Me on iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/king-…d1071620322?mt=2 Support...
Jul 11, 2017•1 hr 12 min
I Duddits! This week we're joined by Melissa Jouben to talk about the insane DREAMCATCHER. This is based on a book that Stephen king himself doesn't like. There's a group of kids with powers and aliens that come out of peoples butts and everyone farts real loud and everyone loves Mighty Mouse and Scooby Doo. This movie is just a run on sentence by an 8 year old from 1965. Rate/review/subscribe to King Me on iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/king-…d1071620322?mt=2 Support the show and access ou...
Jul 04, 2017•1 hr 49 min
We're going back to our roots for the first of two Carrie remakes coming up. This Carrie from 2002 is a TV movie that seemingly goes out of its way to flatten the symbolism of the original--which is weird, considering it's written by Bryan Fuller of American Gods, Pushing Daisies, and Hannibal fame. (Fucking Hannibal!) To its credit, TV Carrie avoids the mistake Brian De Palma made of spinning the camera around and spending, like, three hours on unfunny teen boys trying on tuxedos. Rate/review/s...
Jun 20, 2017•1 hr 32 min
We're going back to the Shop for FIRESTARTER 2: REKINDLED. America's favorite test subject Charlie McGee is all grown up; John Rainbird is alive again, still played by a white guy, and surrounded by strong boys; and there are many more Lots to account for. We got shirts! Check it out: teespring.com/stores/king-me Rate/review/subscribe to King Me on iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/king-…d1071620322?mt=2 Support King Me with $1: www.patreon.com/user?u=2706942 Follow us on facebook and twitter ...
Jun 13, 2017•1 hr 20 min
This ain't your grandpa's mangler. This week we're joined by JC HENDRICKS to talk about the MANGLER 2. This really is one of the dumbest movies we've watched but it was a lot of fun to talk about. Dan thinks it's right up there with Shawshank as being one of the best King movies ever. With off screen kills and plot points that go nowhere, this truly is a Mangler for the ages. We got shirts! Check it out: https://teespring.com/stores/king-me Rate/review/subscribe to King Me on iTunes: itunes.appl...
May 30, 2017•2 hr 14 min
Check out episode of WALL TO WALL CARPENTER here: https://www.patreon.com/reddoormedia
May 26, 2017•3 min
We watched THE DARK TOWER trailer and here are our thoughts. Rate/review/subscribe to King Me on iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/king-…d1071620322?mt=2 Support King Me with $1: www.patreon.com/user?u=2706942 Follow us on facebook and twitter @kingmepod E-mail us at kingmepod@gmail.com
May 19, 2017•19 min
Another goddamn miniseries. Rose Red is the story of a house that is mean. If you try to go in it, you'll get some bees on you. We follow a ragtag team of psychic misfits, one of whom is Emily Deschanel, as they try to help a professor preserve her academic integrity by engaging in a ghost hunt. We learned a lot from this one--most notably, that Gavin Belson from Silicon Valley used to be fat. ALSO IN THIS EPISODE: Fun with Rimbauer We got shirts! Check it out: https://teespring.com/stores/king-...
May 16, 2017•1 hr 41 min
As suggested by listener & patreon donor Tyto Pollens, this week is a special detour episode that we're calling POP OF THE KING. In 1997, Stephen King teamed up with his long-time film collaborator Mick Garris--as well as the King of Pop, Michael Jackson--to write an extremely autobiographical haunted house story for Jackson to star in. Special effects legend Stan Winston directs Jackson as he plays dual roles and makes many uncomfortable, overt references to the child abuse allegations that...
May 09, 2017•1 hr 2 min
We're seven Children of the Corn movies deep, and once more we find ourselves lacking the guidance of our resident Corn Kidz expert, Sean Thomason. But what we lack in guests, we more than make up for in strippers who get dressed for work at home. Also in this episode: a brief overview of the TV show Orange County Choppers. Rate/review/subscribe to King Me on iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/king-…d1071620322?mt=2 Support King Me with $1: www.patreon.com/user?u=2706942 Follow us on facebook a...
May 02, 2017•1 hr 30 min
GET ME MOONFACE! That's right: it's David Morse back up in it with HEARTS IN ATLANTIS. He's not actually in it all that much but it's nice to see his big face. This movie is on the boring side of King movies so we have a hard time staying on topic. But that's fun right? Also Rob is baffled by the most basic hair and makeup disguise. Rate/review/subscribe to King Me on iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/king-…d1071620322?mt=2 Support King Me with $1: www.patreon.com/user?u=2706942 Follow us on f...
Apr 19, 2017•1 hr 38 min
This week we watched THE GREEN MILE and we cried and cried. Hanks delivers a fantastic performance both inside and outside of the bedroom. This movie is stacked with amazing talent and one real life super creep. You'll have to listen to find out who it is. Hint: it's NOT Harry Dean Stanton Rate/review/subscribe to King Me on iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/king-…d1071620322?mt=2 Support King Me with $1: www.patreon.com/user?u=2706942 Follow us on facebook and twitter @kingmepod E-mail us at ...
Apr 12, 2017•1 hr 39 min
The sixth installment in the CHILDREN OF THE CORN franchise returns the series to its roots...sort of? Inasmuch as a character from the first one is back? Other than that, this one's about as faithful as the other four sequels. There's a prophecy now, it's cool to be an adult, and there's ZERO corn. But there's one other constant: our resident Corn Kidz expert, RiffTrax's Sean Thomason, is [Aerosmith voice] BACK! Rate/review/subscribe to King Me on iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/king-…d1071...
Apr 04, 2017•1 hr 21 min
A litte mini episode to talk about the new IT trailer that dropped this week. Rate/review/subscribe to King Me on iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/king-…d1071620322?mt=2 Support King Me with $1: www.patreon.com/user?u=2706942 Follow us on facebook and twitter @kingmepod E-mail us at kingmepod@gmail.com
Apr 02, 2017•15 min
There's no accounting for why SOMETIMES THEY COME BACK spawned two sequels, and there's certainly no explaining why the third installment, SOMETIMES THEY COME BACK...FOR MORE, is a knockoff of John Carpenter's THE THING. But here we are. Something of a spiritual sequel, SOMETIMES THEY COME BACK...FOR MORE takes into account the source material of the first two, and then just mostly ignores it. Now the devil's brother is involved. I don't know, man. ALSO IN THIS EPISODE: Acclaimed film actor Javi...
Mar 21, 2017•1 hr 15 min
Just some of our thoughts on the new Stephen King project CASTLE ROCK
Mar 09, 2017•15 min
This week we're talking about the very weird, painfully 1999, THE RAGE: CARRIE 2. This movie could have been called CARRIE 2: TOXIC MASCULINITY. It also has very strange ties to the original Carrie film.
Mar 07, 2017•1 hr 27 min
Give him what he wants and he'll go away. We're back in Maine with a town of townies. This week we're talking about the mini series STORM OF THE CENTURY from 1999. Subscribe/rate/review us on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/king-me/id1071620322?mt=2 Follow us on facebook and twitter @kingmepod E-mail us at kingmepod@gmail.com Support us with a dollar: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2706942
Feb 28, 2017•1 hr 28 min
What happens when your neighbor turns out to be a nazi war criminal? You make him read you bedtime stories of course. This week we're joined be friend of the show Mark Henely to talk about APT PUPIL. Also which one of the FRIENDS had the best film career? Check out Mark's podcast here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/introducing-the-first-appearance-podcast/id993523477?mt=2 Subscribe/rate/review us on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/king-me/id1071620322?mt=2 Follow us on facebook...
Feb 21, 2017•1 hr 44 min
They say that horror films reflect the anxiety of the time, and if that's true, people in 1997 must have hated poisonous gas. TRUCKS is the second adaptation of the Stephen King short story that also served as the foundation of the surprisingly uneventful MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE. We'll do a bit of comparison, while also giving TRUCKS its due for being totally unwatchable in its own right. The saving grace? A precocious young hazmat suit. Also in this episode: MASH spoilers
Feb 07, 2017•1 hr 29 min
We're on our fifth round of Corn Kid and we're starting to get fatigued. We are once again joined by Rifftrax writer and King Me's resident Corn Kid scholar Sean Thomason to discuss what we all hoped would be a wild romp, but ended up just being five minutes of David Carradine being a beautiful lunatic. That is, until Sean's wifi cuts out three times. What a beautiful mess. Also in this episode: Hey now (hey now) hey now (hey now) iko iko etc. Rate/review/subscribe to King Me on iTunes: itunes.a...
Jan 31, 2017•1 hr 32 min
We're taking a slight detour to break up the monotony of shoestring budget Stephen King adaptations from the late '90s, and exploring the King family tree. Stephen King's son, Joe Hill, is a novelist and acclaimed comic book writer in his own right, and in 2013 his novel HORNS was adapted for film. An attempt at an Americanized magical realism, HORNS is packed with supernatural goings-on, religious imagery, and flimsy female characters. It is, undeniably, something. Also in this episode: Dan is ...
Jan 24, 2017•1 hr 23 min
Friend of the show and former guest JC Hendricks joins us as we try to justify to ourselves the watching of this movie and guzzle La Croix like vampeers guzzle blood. Miguel Ferrer stars as Richard Dees, a hard-boiled reporter for a Weekly World News-type publication who for some reason has journalistic integrity sometimes, and also has a plane. Then there's a vampire for a while. Also in this episode: Sips on sips of precious La Croix Rate/review/subscribe to King Me on iTunes: itunes.apple.com...
Jan 17, 2017•1 hr 29 min
No, not THAT The Shining. That was The Shining. This is STEPHEN KING'S The Shining. Stephen King was famously displeased with Stanley Kubrick's 1980 adaptation of his book about hotels and the souls they devour. Apparently King felt that 17 years was all it took for the public to forget one of the most beloved horror films of all time, and set about EPing a miniseries adaptation of his classic novel. Directed by Mick Garris, and starring Steven Weber and Rebecca de Mornay as Jack and Wendy Torre...
Jan 10, 2017•1 hr 51 min
The first plot twist of Quicksilver Highway is learning that there's a movie called Quicksilver Highway. Another "horror titan" team-up anthology, Quicksilver Highway takes stories from both Stephen King and Clive The Hellraiser Guy Barker. For the second time in a short time, Mick Garris is steering the ship to tell the story of the bizarrely named Aaron Quicksilver (Christopher Lloyd), who then in turn tells the stories of America's dark underbelly. His words, not ours. It's cartoony horror fr...
Jan 03, 2017•1 hr 32 min
We take a look back at the first year of King Me (and try to figure out if auld acquaintance should be forgot), counting down our Dirty Doz' of best movies we've covered thus far. Plus the best miniseries. Plus the best anthology. We take time to make fun of Adrian Brody's weird rasta character from SNL though. Also in this episode: Rob and Dan make pornography for you, dear listener. Rate/review/subscribe King Me on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/king-me/id1071620322?mt=2 Support K...
Dec 28, 2016•1 hr 31 min
When comedian/host of Callin' the Shots Taylor Allen chose to come on the show for the THINNER episode, he might have known the movie itself would be good, but he probably didn't know how badly Rob and Dan needed it after the past few weeks of schlock. Thinner is everything we're looking for in a Stephen King movie: scenery-chewing performances, the state of Maine, a Stephen King cameo, and no bloated mythology that tries to justify the movie's existence. Just some good old-fashioned *Romani* he...
Dec 20, 2016•1 hr 56 min
The '90s was truly a boom era from corn horror, and so our resident Corn Kid expert Sean Thomason (Rifftracks) is back for the second time in a month to learn us a thing or two about these damned kids. As the Corn Kidz franchise expands, so does the scope and vagueness of Corn Kid properties and abilities. Naomi Watts stars as a fake doctor being mentored by another fake sleepover doctor in this straight-to-video romp. Also in this episode: water is bugs now. Wanna help support King Me? Leave us...
Dec 13, 2016•1 hr 22 min
SOMETIMES THEY COME BACK...AGAIN marks round three of two of our favorite King Tropes--evil greasers and hot rod lawnmowers--as well a cornucopia of others. And without a guest around to make them feel like there's any accountability for time or effort (no offense, King Me listeners), Rob and Dan embark on a free-wheelin' romp through a direct-to-video sequel of a made-for-TV movie. But if you're worried we won't find time to talk about Kirk Cameron's weird religiousness, don't worry. We find li...
Dec 06, 2016•1 hr 38 min
Beyond cyberspace, there are green screens. Depending on who you ask, this movie is either called LAWNMOWER MAN 2: BEYOND CYBERSPACE or LAWNMOWER MAN 2: JOBE'S WAR. We're joined by comedian Melissa Jouben (Warm Things Comedy, Pop-Break.com) and comedian/friend of the show JC Hendricks to pick our favorite title, and to try to get even a tenuous grasp on this deeply perplexing movie. Also in this episode: human jellies, post-coital chicken wings, security guard dirt humiliation. Tickets for Mike ...
Nov 29, 2016•1 hr 52 min
