Master of horror
name, bio, info
Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947, the second son of
Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. He made his first professional short
story sale in 1967 to Startling Mystery Stories. In the fall of 1971, he began
teaching high school English classes at Hampden Academy, the public high
school in Hampden, Maine. Writing in the evenings and on the weekends,
he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels. In the spring
of 1973, Doubleday & Co., accepted the novel Carrie for publication,
providing him the means to leave teaching and write full-time. He has since
published over 50 books and has become one of the world's most
successful writers. King is the recipient of the 2003 National Book
Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to the American Letters
and the 2014 National Medal of Arts.
Screenwriter famous for his work on the movies Annabelle, Annabelle:
Creation, and Annabelle Comes Home. He co-wrote It along with
Chase Palmer and Cary Joji Fukunaga. He began his career by
directing the TV movie In the Spider's Web.
BEFORE FAME
He was first inspired to become a filmmaker by It's A Wonderful Life
at the age of 13.
TRIVIA
He earned a degree in Film and Media Studies from Temple University
in 2001. It took home 9 awards in 2017. He produced 10 episodes of
Swamp Thing. He wrote the 2021 horror film The Dark Side.
Kevin Williamson was born in New Bern, North
Carolina and while a young adult, studied theater at
East Carolina University. After graduation, he moved
to New York to pursue acting. A few small parts on
stage and television later, he packed his bags and
headed west to Los Angeles to try his hand at the
less glamorous side of the business: writing and
directing.
Famous works Images
short summary books, adaptations, etc
In the summer of 1989, a group of bullied kids band
together to destroy a shape-shifting monster, which
disguises itself as a clown and preys on the children of
Derry, their small Maine town.
In the Town of Derry, the local kids are disappearing
one by one. In a place known as 'The Barrens', a group
of seven kids are united by their horrifying and strange
encounters with an evil clown and their determination
to kill It.
In Santa Monica, California, Mia and John Gordon are happily married and Mia is
pregnant. John is concluding the medical school and does not have much time to
give attention to his beloved wife, so he buys an ancient and rare doll named
Annabelle for her collection. But soon their next door neighbors are attacked by two
members of a satanic cult that break in their house and attack them after killing the
neighbors. Mia and John are saved by the police officers and Mia needs to rest until
the delivery. But there is a fire in their house and Mia early delivers a baby girl,
Leah. The family moves to an apartment in Pasadena but first Mia throws the doll
Annabelle away in the garbage. However she finds the doll in a box while
unpacking things in her new home. Weird things happen to Mia and she befriends
Evelyn, who works in a bookstore, and she learns about an evil cult that wants
Leah's soul. When John and Mia summons Father Perez to help them with
Annabelle, evil is stronger than the priest and he is sent injured to the hospital. Who
may save Leah's soul now?
A year after her mother's death, Sidney Prescott (Neve
Campbell) and her friends started experiencing some strange
phone calls. They later learned the calls were coming from a
crazed serial killer, in a white faced mask and a large black
robe, looking for revenge. His phone calls usually consist of
many questions, the main one being: What's your favorite
scary movie? Along with much scary movie trivia, ending with
bloody pieces of innocent lives scattered around the small
town of Woodsboro.