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Stephen Kingcast

Episode Thirty Three-Mercy

Stephen Kingcast

Constant Reader

Books, Arts:books, Arts, Tv & Film

4.7680 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2015

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Corl from The Walking Dead stars in the adaptation of Stephen King's short story, Gramma.  Is Corl's zombie killing skills enough to face off against family witches?  Find out this week in the Stephen Kingcast's review of Mercy!

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I don't know what you do, what you do it will.

0:04.0

I'm under your spell.

0:06.0

You got me begging you for mercy.

0:10.0

Why won't you release me?

0:13.0

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

0:18.0

Each week I'll review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King in the chronological order of publication.

0:25.0

And this week I'm reviewing 2014's adaptation of the Skeleton Crew short story grandma titled

0:31.6

Mercy.

0:32.9

Mercy stars The Walking Dead's Chandler Riggs, Francis O'Connor, Joel Courtney, Mark Duplis,

0:39.1

was a Duplas, and Dylan McDermott as directed by Peter Cornwall. I'm going to get to the review

0:45.9

in a second, but first I want to read some listener mail. Last week, or not last week, but a few

0:52.8

weeks ago, I read an email from Craig.

0:57.4

Craig writes again, and for those of you who didn't listen to that particular episode,

1:02.8

I believe it was in the review of Stephen King's cycle of the werewolf, the Corey Hame vehicle, pun totally intended,

1:13.6

werewolf movie, and I started off reading some listener mail, and I got this one email

1:20.9

from Craig, and the two of us wrote back and forth about the creative process, and he has just a little addendum that he would like to add.

1:33.3

So what about the majority of Twain, SK readers, lost viewers, etc., who simply enjoy the book slash TV show for its entertainment value and could care less about analyzing,

1:44.9

critiquing the guts of the matter.

1:47.9

That is a huge and such an important question.

1:51.3

Now, I listen to, I guess my answer to this, I just want to share a very brief anecdote.

1:59.1

I'm going to pull from the guys of the slash film cast and typically what they say about

2:05.5

this particular matter because the host, Dave Chen, who's a Renaissance man, for those

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