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Stephen Kingcast

Episode 22-Brett Leonard's The Lawnmower Man (1992)

Stephen Kingcast

Constant Reader

Tv & Film, Arts, Arts:books, Books

4.7680 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2014

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to The Stephen Kingcast, one man's musings on the works of Stephen King. This week, plug in as I review the adaptation (?) of The Lawnmower Man.  Please note that the analysis of this episode was first released on 5/25/18 and has been re-edited with fresh audio and re-ordered chronologically to remain with the other reviews adapting the short stories from Night Shift. As always, write in at stephenkingcast@yahoo.com Follow me on Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook and Bluesky. Stay organized and up to date with all things Stephen King at stephenkingcast.com Check out bonus material, early episodes and reviews of all things pop culture over at patreon.com/stephenkingcast

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to the Stephen Kingcast, one man's musings on the works of Stephen King.

0:08.9

Each week I will review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King.

0:13.7

And this week I am reviewing an adaptation of a Stephen King short story that is so bad that Stephen King

0:26.4

sued to take his name off of it. And that story, of course, is the lawnmower man.

0:34.4

Just a point of order here before we begin. This episode first arrived in July of 2017.

0:41.3

It is currently being recorded in 2006. Just so you know, I have reorganized the order of the

0:49.6

podcast as they first appeared. So if there's any mention in this episode,

0:55.6

that doesn't really align nicely with the previous episode

0:58.8

in this anecdotal portion of the podcast

1:01.6

before we get to the review.

1:03.3

I just wanted you to be aware

1:04.4

so that you can orient yourself appropriately.

1:10.8

So I had just a crazy sense of deja vu. I was like, appropriately.

1:14.4

So I had just a crazy sense of deja vu.

1:15.6

I was like, wait a minute.

1:19.4

I could have sworn that I recorded an episode on a lawnmower man.

1:21.1

I remember watching it.

1:22.3

I remember writing down some notes.

1:25.4

And I could have sworn that I recorded it last summer.

1:26.0

I guess I didn't.

1:26.9

I guess I never put it out.

1:28.8

So here I am. I'm back. I know that I was forging ahead with getting back into the stories of skeleton crew, but I'm stepping

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