Sep 19, 2025 frost / warning What it is in The Long Walk is that ‘no good movie was ever / too long’, (y)our (wo)man a critic’s / critic wagged it better, ‘ and no bad movie ever too / short’, and oh my brothers and sister The Long Walk is not a short / film, a critic's / critic is all / we gots. Course a taxpayer has to temper / his expectations as we do, but although (y)our man Cin the humble(d) narrator of (t)his Take This Thing Back to Balti-memoires and frost / warning did obey one of the cardinal rules when it comes to the material-gathering for and hulk-smashing away at / the same - namely always go to videe a film version of a Stephen King novel, because Kubrick’s The Shining , Brian de Palma’s Carrie , Rob Reiner’s Misery , Pet Semetary Parts One and yes, Two, both Firestarter s, Cujo , John Carpenter’s Christine , both It s, and perhaps the crown jewel in (t)his illustrious tiara, David Cronenburg’s The Dead Zone , though this latest one The Long Walk w...