Dreamcatcher

now.And I'll just put that in the trauma wing of my mind palace.

Just you see the kind of like, what was the movie? Was it Dreamcatcher that had the mind palace in it? It was one of the Stephen King movies.

Yep.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Dreamcatcher.

You see him just kind of like-

Jim Z-

It shows up everywhere.

It's in the 1994 novel Insomnia, the 2001 sci-fi thriller Dreamcatcher, and his 2011 historical narrative 11/22/63.

The mechanical advantage of this interconnected geography is brand reinforcement.

When a reader or a studio engages with one property, they are subtly marketed the entire back catalog.

That was part of how It was able to keep killing for so long.

Stephen King also has a couple of other interesting books that depict pretty creepy aliens, like The Tommyknockers and also Dreamcatcher.

And coincidentally, the main four characters in that book were raised in the town of Derry sometime after It was supposedly banished, because Stephen King has a really cool shared universe in his books, and I really enjoy that sort of thing.

Okay, honorable mentions as far as books go.

The Langoliers, even though the special effects were garbage.

Dreamcatcher, that's a weird one.

I remember that was a disappointment when that movie came out because it's a weird one.

I may be due for a rewatch on that one.

Just

haven't felt the urge.

He wrote Dreamcatcher about being on heavy painkillers after his accident.

See, I know more than Chris the girl.

He famously hated Stanley Kubricker's adaptation of The Shining.

He disliked Dreamcatcher.

But the studio's takeaway was, "Who cares?"

Exactly.