![]() The meat of the story is a whirlwind of patented King-ian mayhem: “It wasn’t every day,” observes our narrator, “that you were taking a whiz in your drug dealer’s trailer and World War III broke out on the other side of the flimsy shithouse door,” delivered courtesy of a woman-half-naked, yes-who’s pounding the tar out of a miscreant, smacking his face into the nearest wall. ![]() Mercedes and The Shawshank Redemption, perhaps-King and King, father and son, take their time putting all the pieces into play: brutish men, resourceful women who’ve had quite enough, alcohol, and always a subtle sociological subtext, in this case of rural poverty and dreams sure to be dashed. In a kind of untold Greek tragedy meets Deliverance meets-well, bits of Mr. ![]() But that’s nothing: the womenfolk of the holler are drifting off to sleep one after another, and they become maenads on being disturbed, ready to wreak vengeance on any dude stupid enough to demand that they make him a sandwich. A big deal, you might think, in so sparsely populated a place, but there are bigger issues to contend with: namely, half-naked women appearing out of the mist, as if to taunt the yokels. ![]() “We got a couple of dead meth cookers out here past the lumberyard,” says the dispatcher. ![]() Another horror blockbuster, Mercedes and all, from maestro King ( End of Watch, 2016, etc.) and his heir apparent ( Double Feature, 2013, etc.).Ī radio crackles in the cold Appalachian air. ![]()
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