The Long Walk (2025)
Thriller Rated 15 Spoiler Free When is a Stephen King not a Stephen King? When it was written as his pseudonym Richard Bachman, in 1979, before he became the legendary horror writer he is today. King is a favourite of mine; his writing style (check out John Ajvide Lindqvist if you're looking for a Scandi-Stephen), themes and personality are so engaging and diverse. I'd love to have a drink with him, I bet he'd be fun. The Long Walk's premise is simple: in a dystopian future there is a yearly competition where fifty young men undertake a walk to the last man in order to win unspecified riches and status. No turning back, no deviation, hesitation, or repetition. Three warnings and you’re out, and by out I mean unceremoniously executed right there and then. Sounds brutal and it is, although early on while I found the sudden violence visually visceral, the squelchy sound effects undermined that rawness. That dissipated as the tension and excited anticipation in the deaths...
