Review: Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital
Saw Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital last night. I have 2 words for you: I'm hooked.
Only the mind of Stephen King can concieve something so bizarre, so weird, that it actually captures my attention.
It started out with a brief history of the Hospital site, previously the site of a factory that manufactured uniforms for the Union army during the Civil War. Children were working in the basement in virtual slavery, and when the factory caught fire, many of the children died. The spirits of the children haunt the current day Kingdom Hospital, but the one child viewers see is Mary, a nine year old whose spirit wanders the halls, and is only seen by a few people. One of those people is Peter Rickman, an artist who is hit by a guy driving a van being distracted by his dog (this is based on King's own accident in 1999).
Peter's latest painting is of a quaint Maine inn, but in the foreground is an animal that resembles an aardvark with very sharp teeth like a carnivore. It's this creature that comes to Peter as he's lying on the side of the road after he's hit and somehow communicates telepathically with him.
Once he's on his way to Kingdom, he sees Mary for the first time holding a bell, and the aardvark. Peter's alive, but barely.
Admitted to the hospital around the same time is Sally Druse, whose son, Bobby is a hospital employee. She is feeling some weird sensations in her arm, and is scheduled for an MRI. While she is on her way to radiology in Elevator #2, she hears the sound of a child crying. Sally's a clairvoyant who is attune to something that's just not right about Kingdom Hospital.
All in all, this is going to be a cool series. Even if you aren't a fan of Stephen King's books, I think you'll like this series. As I said previously, I'm hooked.
MorelaterZ--
Only the mind of Stephen King can concieve something so bizarre, so weird, that it actually captures my attention.
It started out with a brief history of the Hospital site, previously the site of a factory that manufactured uniforms for the Union army during the Civil War. Children were working in the basement in virtual slavery, and when the factory caught fire, many of the children died. The spirits of the children haunt the current day Kingdom Hospital, but the one child viewers see is Mary, a nine year old whose spirit wanders the halls, and is only seen by a few people. One of those people is Peter Rickman, an artist who is hit by a guy driving a van being distracted by his dog (this is based on King's own accident in 1999).
Peter's latest painting is of a quaint Maine inn, but in the foreground is an animal that resembles an aardvark with very sharp teeth like a carnivore. It's this creature that comes to Peter as he's lying on the side of the road after he's hit and somehow communicates telepathically with him.
Once he's on his way to Kingdom, he sees Mary for the first time holding a bell, and the aardvark. Peter's alive, but barely.
Admitted to the hospital around the same time is Sally Druse, whose son, Bobby is a hospital employee. She is feeling some weird sensations in her arm, and is scheduled for an MRI. While she is on her way to radiology in Elevator #2, she hears the sound of a child crying. Sally's a clairvoyant who is attune to something that's just not right about Kingdom Hospital.
All in all, this is going to be a cool series. Even if you aren't a fan of Stephen King's books, I think you'll like this series. As I said previously, I'm hooked.
MorelaterZ--
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