Needful Things
Novel by Stephen KingWikipedia
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Oct 16, 2026
FullyHOST
The Dog.
FullyHOST
His reference in the Tommyknockers, Pet Sematary, Needful Things, The Body, and Gerald's Game, and even had a cameo in Cat's Eye.
BubbaHOST
Oh, really? I knew he was in a couple.
BubbaHOST
I didn't realize there was quite that many, but...
JeffHOST
Good for you, liking this thing.
JeffHOST
Uh, and, uh, he also wrote Needful Things, which I know I've told you about.
JeffHOST
It's a Stephen King...
JeffHOST
Remember when we did, um, Stranger Things? Stranger Things.
LeslieHOST
Yes.
JeffHOST
Uh, yeah.
JeffHOST
He, that, he was, he played the villain in a Stephen King TV movie called Needful Things.
LeslieHOST
Mm.
MattHOST
Oh my God.
MattHOST
Which Stephen King novel was adapted into the nin- or the 2017 film It? The Tommyknockers, Pet Sematary, Needful Things, or It?
VanessaHOST
It.
VanessaHOST
[laughs]
Jake FederleGUEST
Mm-hmm
Greg DickmanHOST
... book, and then, um, it clearly had an influence on his Dead Zone, Salem's Lot, and also Needful Things.
Greg DickmanHOST
The title of this story, movie-
Jake FederleGUEST
Mm-hmm
speaker_2HOST
It is the home of Shawshank Prison.
speaker_2HOST
It is the site of the Dead Zone, the rampage of Cujo, the demonic shop in Needful Things.
speaker_1HOST
The dirt in this town carries decades of literary baggage and spilled blood.
speaker_2HOST
It really does.
JeremyHOST
[laughs] That's fair.
LHOST
Um, Needful Things is actually my number one, and a lot of people are surprised by that.
JeremyHOST
I can see it.
JeremyHOST
I like Needful Things quite a bit.
LHOST
But yeah, it's, a lot of people it's like, that's not even in their top 10.
LHOST
Some of them are like-
JeremyHOST
when it came out because I was a real-- I was really interested to see where that was gonna go, 'cause it's the sequel to "The Shining." Like, what are you gonna do? And I like "Doctor Sleep," uh, but before that, I think the most recent one I had read was "Gerald's Game," which the book I am not a big fan of.
JeremyHOST
I, I remember-- And it was my cutoff of Stephen King fandom was quick and immediate.
Brad ShoemakerHOST
All right.
Alex NavarroHOST
So that will be our closing film, and our next one will be the 1993 Stephen King adaptation, Needful Things.
Alex NavarroHOST
What do you know about this one?
Brad ShoemakerHOST
Basically, like, kind of vaguely remember what the cover of the hardback novel looked like when it came out, and that's about it.
Vinny CaravellaHOST
It's not like three tales of people who...
Alex NavarroHOST
No, it is a straight beginning, middle, end type movie.
Alex NavarroHOST
And so it's worth noting we are watching the theatrical cut of Needful Things.
Alex NavarroHOST
There is a three-hour TV cut of the movie that adds a bunch of extra footage... that is also 4x3 in resolution and is only on the Blu-ray release.
Lydia PeaverHOST
He at the time around the time that this was coming out, he was writing Gerald's Game Insomnia and Into Rose Matter.
Lydia PeaverHOST
He'd just written Needful Things.
Lydia PeaverHOST
So he was sort of like coming down off the very big peak.
Lydia PeaverHOST
We think of him and his career having peaked there.
MartyHOST
Um, so there's a demon in this movie.
MartyHOST
Like, they buy a crystal at, like, the Needful Things shop run by this-
JulieHOST
Uh-huh
MartyHOST
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MikeHOST
...
MikeHOST
the Egyptian cards of death.
MartyHOST
But those f- do you think those were the same runes that the needful things guy was trying to sell?
MikeHOST
I don't know.
Shane McKenzieGUEST
COVID almost killed it.
Shane McKenzieGUEST
That's why, so the, the, you'll notice, um, well, the movie is what it is, but in the script it was much more of, like, a Needful Things setup-
Colby Does HorrorHOST
Mm
Shane McKenzieGUEST
... with the whole town f- filled with people.
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