Tag: Jack Nicholson

  • THE LAST KNOCK presents: The Shining

    The Shining: Shines on After 40 Years  In 1980, Stanley Kubrick brought Stephen King’s best selling novel, The Shining to life. Regardless of the original source material, Kubrick created a frenetic and most unsettling horror. The story is centered on a maze of emotions and craziness exuded by the Torrance family, which opens the hotel…

  • It Chapter Two by Jonny Numb

    It Chapter Two: An Eerie Nostalgia Over Labor Day weekend, I was cleaning and packing up the very last of my personal belongings at my former apartment. I loved the building, and the tenants were a friendly, wide-ranging mix of cultures and ages. With the surfaces polished and the contents of the fridge stuffed into…

  • The Twilight Zone by Jonny Numb

    Peeleing the Layers of The Twilight Zone NARRATOR:“Meet Jordan Peele – a man whose proficiency with comedy and horror has led to a meteoric rise to Hollywood power. Tonight, Mr. Peele will face his greatest challenge – reviving a beloved television series whose sense of subversion and social conscience resonates to this day. Mr. Peele…

  • The Case for Wendy Torrance by Billy Crash

    Enter Wendy Torrance Wendy Torrance doesn’t receive much love in the film version of The Shining, and that’s a mistake that needs to be “corrected.” While many love Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, hatred stems from fans who don’t appreciate the director’s deviation from Stephen King’s boring, drawn out novel that’s 300 pages too long. Others…

  • THE LAST KNOCK presents: Satan

    The Devil Didn’t Make Us Do It After talking about horror television, and John Glover’s role of Satan in the short-lived Brimstone series, we decided to dedicate a show to the devil. Whatever you want to call Satan (nemesis), whether it be Old Scratch, Old Nick, Little Horn, and on and on, he’s the symbol…