The Dark Half Review
One of the slighter stories by horror novelist Stephen King becomes one of the better (although by no means the best) of the many film adaptations of his work. The taut script by writer/director George A. Romero, while sacrificing some elements that would have better explained the tale's supernatural elements, keeps the pace humming along briskly, never allowing the audience to chew for too long on the film's more outlandish and logic-defying elements. Timothy_Hutton gives a solid performance, if not exactly a riveting one, as the dual central characters (predictably, he works better as the villain than as the vanilla-bland hero). The central premise of The Dark Half (1991) is an absurd one, a variation on the far more terrifying primal-fear concept that fuels the superior Misery (1990). But even seen clearly in the light of day as an artistic also-ran, it's a fun, guilty-pleasure experience for horror and King buffs. Karl Williams, Rovi
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