It and Carrie with Nell Tiger Free and Arkasha Stevenson

Episode 233,   May 29, 08:00 AM

This week brings two guests, the director and the star of the recent (and shockingly good) The First Omen: Arkasha Stevenson and Nell Tiger Free. Both ladies have their quintessential Stephen King adaptation that they loved growing up and they discuss the impact both the 1990 mini-series of IT and the Brian De Palma classic adaptation of Carrie had on them as genre fans and filmmakers. Why is Tim Curry so terrifying, even without the prosthetics? How did Carrie turn out to be a cornerstone feminist film? How did The First Omen turn out as good as it did? What did the ratings board want removed from this film? And how the hell does Ron Howard's Splash play into all this? You'll get the answer to that and much more in this episode.

Tim Curry scarred a whole generation as Pennywise The Dancing Clown in Stephen King's IT and Brian De Palma's Carrie inspired a whole generation of genre filmmakers. Both are classics of the respective forms and both have proven to be hugely important in keeping King in the cultural zeitgeist.
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