VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Pluskylang Great Film overall

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Rainey Dawn I have not read the book - but the adaptation film is pretty darn good. It's a bizarre story, some great imagery, and good acting.Thad Beaumont had twin brother that was never born, in fact the brother literally lived within his brain. As a child, the twin was developing inside his brain and Thad had to have brain surgery - the doctor calling it a brain tumor. Thad became a husband, father and a writer. As a writer, he created a pseudonym of George Stark to write under. Stark gave rise to a best selling pulp crime spree of novels but Thad decided to "kill off" Stark and write under his own name - a different set of novels. The problem is, Stark becomes real and murders as written in the George Stark novels. The police think that Thad is doing the killings but only one policeman helps to keep Thad out of jail... yet he wonders if Thad is doing the killings and not George Stark come to life.Enjoyable watch, really gets interesting.8/10

Richard Dominguez I Was Afraid This Was Going To Be Too Much Like "Secret Window" (Johnny Depp) And While It Is Easy To See How One May Have Drawn On The Other For Inspiration, These Two Movies Are As Different As Night And Day ... Timothy Hutton Is Excellent And Pulls It Off With No Issues At All ... Amy Madigan Gives An Excellent Performances As The "Stand By Her Man" Wife ... Michael Rooker Comes Together Well As The Sheriff Investigating A Series Of Horrific Murders ... Horror From Stephen King Means A Script That Works Well All The Way Around ... The Last Time I Saw Timothy In Something I Liked As Much As This Was The 1981 "Taps" ... The Dark Half Is An Excellent Ride Down Spooky Lane From Beginning To End ... My IMDb Rating 7 Out Of 10

LeonLouisRicci Stephen King Adaptations are Plentiful and Range in Quality from God-Awful (Thinner 1996) to Great (Carrie 1976). Some Fall Somewhere in the Middle and This One is Right There Despite Romero Writing and Directing.Most of the Problems Lie With Explanations. It Never Really Explains or Pays Much Attention to Exactly Where the Doppelganger Comes From. Obviously, He is the Alter-Ego, Dark-Half, of the Writer. But Exploring the Methodology of the Psychological Manifestation, is He-It a Conjured Spirit, an Unwelcome Intrusion of Ancient Practices that Linger Today, etc, is Lacking. These are Touched Upon but Never Really "Fleshed Out". Weak Expositional Dialog from the Cop (Michael Rooker) About the Writer (Timothy Hutton in a Dual Role) Being Allowed to Roam Free While Damning Evidence is Everywhere and There Are Others.But These Weaknesses Do Not Make the Film Awful, Just Not as Good as It Could Have Been with a Deeper Script. The Acting is Passable with Hutton Maybe Straining a Bit Here and There and Amy Madigan as the Wife in a Thankless Role is OK. But The Twin Babies "Performances" Steal the Show in that Department.There are Some Romero Flourishes that are Graphic and Work Well, but the Film Overall Seems to Lack Any Energy or Style, and the Pacing is Off. Worth a Watch for Stephen King Fans, Horror Movie Buffs, and Romero Completest. Others Might Want to Take a Chance but be Advised...It's Not Great Stephen King and it's Not Great George Romero and as a Stand Alone Genre Piece it is Just Average.

lost-in-limbo This is one strange, surreal literate piece of psychological horror pulp in the tradition of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by film-maker George Romero who adapted it from novelist Stephen King. Thad Beaumont is a successful novelist who decides to literally bury his alter ego George Stark, who he used as a pseudonym for his overly violent pulp novels. This occurs because someone tries to blackmail him. But after putting an end to this alter ego, people are starting to be killed off and these are people who are somehow tied in to seeing George Stark finish up. However the evidence at every murder scene points to Thad and something is happening to him that he hasn't experience for almost twenty years. The sparrows are calling. Underrated work from Romero, which can be atmospheric in its vivid visuals, computer effects are ably done, the jolts are nastily macabre (the graphic climax of when sparrows attack) and the steadfast narrative gradually builds up its dread-filled suspense and stinging matter with precise control. Timothy Hutton plays the dual roles with outstanding ticker. Then there is solid support by Amy Madigan, Michael Rooker and a tiny part for Robert Joy."We shouldn't be writing trash."