Depressed art student Alan Parker (Jonathan Jackson) spends a long, dark night of the soul hitchhiking from the University of Maine to Lewiston, some hundred miles away, to visit his ailing mother (Barbara Hershey) in this adaptation of Stephen King's 2000 e-novella. October 31, 1969: Born on Halloween and haunted by his father's death when he was just a child, Parker styles himself the "Prince of Darkness." He irritates his life-studies teacher (Matt Frewer, in a one-scene part written as a cameo for King) by adding macabre figures to every drawing and argues with himself — literally — in the form of a mirror Alan who encourages the most grotesque and morb...
Released:
2004
Rated:
R
Length:
n/a