4K UHD Review – The Dark Half

Films based on books from iconic author Stephen King inspired box office business in the 1980s, and grew into something more respectable in the 1990s, once Kathy Bates took home an Oscar for her role in 1990’s “Misery.” 1993’s “The Dark Half” is part of this second wave of interest in King’s output, putting writer/director George A. Romeo to work on a story about writer duality and danger, tasked with balancing the horror elements of the tale and its periodically intimate psychology. The picture has its grisly moments, but it mostly connects as a study of King’s own struggles as an author, playing with his pen name past and elements of the publishing world. Romero’s not known for nuance, but he does a respectable job with “The Dark Half,” at least during its opening half, which is more invested in a compelling mystery concerning an author’s break from reality. The rest of the offering isn’t as involving as Romero attempts to satisfy genre fans and find a way out of a complicated premise. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com