288: Talking King's Place in '90s and Aughts Horror Movies with Clark Collis

The Kingcast

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🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Clark Collis returns to The Kingcast to discuss a very specific moment in horror cinema: the '90s through the early 2010s. His new book, Screaming and Conjuring, takes us through that era of many hits, twice as many misses, and a genre that was feeling lost as it whiplashed between generic studio remakes, found footage ripoffs, and torture porn.

King's genre work was getting some pretty bad adaptations in this era, too, and we discuss that, King's own film criticism work at Entertainment Weekly, and his support for the genre even when it was down and out.

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0:40.8	Yeah,
0:40.9	Yeah.
0:41.4	Oh, yeah.
0:44.8	Hi.
0:46.8	My name is Stephen King.
0:53.3	The ice is gonna break.
0:55.0	Dead rum, red love.
0:58.0	Red love.
1:00.0	You guys want to go see a dead body?
1:05.0	But sometimes, dead is better.
1:09.0	Welcome to the Kingcast here on the Fangoria Podcast Network,
1:14.0	where we geek out on the regular about the books, movies,
1:16.8	and general aura of Stephen King.
1:19.9	I'm Anthony Bresnickin.
1:21.0	His musk.
1:21.8	We live in his musk, apparently.
1:24.3	Let's try to get as creepy as we can in the episodes.
1:27.0	I'm going to make that a goal
1:29.6	in the year of our Lord 2026. I'm going to try to creep him out as much. I'm Eric Vesby, by the way.
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