‘The Long Walk’: Yadda, Yadda, Yadda. Bang, Bang.

‘The Long Walk’: Yadda, yadda, yadda. Bang, bang.

The movie The Long Walk is based on the first novel Stephen King ever wrote, while he was still a freshman at the University of Maine in the late 1960s. Though it would not come out until 1979, after Carrie, The Shining and other better-known titles, King’s earliest toe-dipping into dystopian horror was widely perceived as an allegory of the senselessness of the Vietnam War.

The Long Walk Is a Long Slog

Based on a forgotten Stephen King dystopian novel, The Long Walk wants to be an allegory for America’s grindset mania. But unlike other works in this genre, it fails to deliver a bang and instead ends with a whimper. Still from The Long Walk. (Lionsgate) In adapting Stephen King’s 1979 novel, The Long Walk, originally published under a pseudonym, the filmmakers made the bold decision to stick relentlessly to the walk itself. The walk is an annu…

'The Long Walk' Runs Comradery Up Against A Dark Competition

Francis Lawrence takes on the bleak and unrelenting nature of Stephen King's 1979 novel and cranks it up tenfold.

Emotional Horror: ‘The Long Walk’ Is Very Good—but Avoid It If You’re in a Bad Mood or Dislike Onscreen Violence - Coachella Valley Independent

There have been a lot of good or even excellent movies this year that have garnered my admiration—yet I am in no rush to see them again. Bring Her Back was one of those. Man, that movie knocked me on my ass—in a good way—but I don’t know if I will ever watch it again. Now The Long Walk has joined this category: I dug it; I appreciate it; I won’t put myself through it again anytime soon. The Long Walk was of the first books Stephen King ever wrot…

‘The Long Walk’ is a bleak, disturbing dystopia that finds catharsis in carnage

In “The Long Walk,” censorship and punishment for dissent become a focal point, as does the issue of choice. When poverty is rampant and class mobility nearly impossible, when every young man signs up for a chance to secure a…