Writing under the name of Richard Bachman, Stephen King’s twisted musing on his own experiment with an alter-ego spawns this horror tale of a writer whose pseudonym takes on a deadly reality, heralding a vicious killing spree, with all the clues quite naturally pointing straight back at him.

• The Dark Half
• George A Romero
• Timothy Hutton
• Amy Madigan
• Michael Rooker
• Orion Pictures
• George A Romero Productions