Stephen King Presents - Kingdom Hospital
from: Sony Pictures
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9781404952263
Format: AC-3, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1404952268
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: October 12, 2004
Running Time: 608 minutes
Sales Rank: 8407
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: March 03, 2004
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Product Description:
Stephen King Presents Kingdom Hospital is the haunting new 15-hour drama series developed directly for television by the award-winning best-selling master of horror. Using Lars Von Trier's Danish miniseries Riget (a.k.a. The Kingdom ) as a point of inspiration King tells the terrifying story of The Kingdom a hospital with a bizarre population that includes a nearly blind security guard a nurse who regularly faints at the sight of blood and a paraplegic artist whose recovery is a step beyond miraculous. When patients and staff hear the tortured voice of a little girl crying through the halls they are dismissive of any suggestion of mysticism or unseen powers but at their own peril.System Requirements:Running Time: 608 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 043396041936 Manufacturer No: 04193
Amazon.com:
Kingdom Hospital is horror novelist Stephen King's adaptation of Danish director Lars Von Trier's cult miniseries The Kingdom, geared very much for an American audience. The story unfolds across 15 hours, telling the story of a hospital in Maine that's been built on the site of a 19th-century mill fire that killed most of its young occupants--themes that King fans will be familiar with. In the present day, Kingdom Hospital is haunted by the ghost of 10-year-old child worker Mary and, even more bizarrely, a fearsome giant anteater-like creature called Antubis. It falls to the ace doctor Hook (Andrew McCarthy), the paraplegic artist Jack Coleman (Peter Rickman), and the hypochondriac psychic Sally Druse (Diane Ladd) to enlist the help of a surreal assortment of hospital staff and patients to help Mary and save Kingdom Hospital itself from certain doom.
Fans of Stephen King will probably enjoy the blend of black comedy, spectral horror, and general weirdness, which owes a big debt to previous television series like Twin Peaks and even ER. But too often, Kingdom Hospital seems to be trying too hard to make itself into a cult series, something which King is just not a subtle enough writer to carry off. But Kingdom Hospital looks good, especially the CGI Antubis, who steals every scene in which he appears. Generally, though, the series is more of an entertaining experiment than a cult-in-the-making. --Ted Kord
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- Kingdom Hospital RocksI watched this on TV even through the shifting times and dates. I enjoyed it then and I enjoy it ... Read More
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- Not badHaven't seen the European original mentioned in the other reviews, so I'll have to make comments on ... Read More
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- It's extraordinary how fully King was able to ruin this storyLars Von Trier's "The Kingdom" is a wildly entertaining piece of made-for-tv cinema of which no one ... Read More
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- A trip through the weirdPreface: This was a television mini-series, that Stephen King and the series' producers hoped would ... Read More
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- Awesome!!!!!This is a great series! So glad to finally see all the episodes all together. I love Stephen King and ... Read More
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