film: the dead zone
beer: southern tier pumking

since i'm a child of the 70's & 80's, celebrating pumpktoberfest without paying a visit to at least one story by one of the true kings of horror, stephen king, would be absolute blasphemy. with that in mind, for today's pumpktoberfest installment we're taking a look at the dead zone, the 1983 horror film based on one of his earlier novels. while i read a lot of king's books as a plucky teen, i never got around to reading the dead zone, so i was going in blind. it's one of the first few books of king's that was adapted into a film & was directed by david cronenberg, who's made a name for himself over the years with a number of largely-psychological horror films, films like scanners & the fly.