Nazi is as Nazi does.
After kicking off spooky season with a look at Tim Burton’s ode to Hammer Horror in Sleepy Hollow and tackling another Friday the 13th with one of its best entries in Friday the 13th Part 2, we’re getting serious for a minute with a discussion of Bryan Singer‘s 1998 Stephen King adaptation Apt Pupil.
Apt Pupil sees high school student Todd Bowden (Brad Renfro) discover a fugitive Nazi war criminal, Kurt Dussander (Ian McKellen), living in his neighborhood under a pseudonym. Bowden, obsessed with Nazism and the Holocaust, blackmails Dussander into sharing his horror stories, and their relationship stirs malice in each of them.
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Episode 252: Apt Pupil (1998)
Keep the cat away...
After kicking off spooky season with a look at Tim Burton’s ode to Hammer Horror in Sleepy Hollow and tackling another Friday the 13th with one of its best entries in Friday the 13th Part 2, we’re getting serious for a minute with a discussion of Bryan Singer‘s 1998 Stephen King adaptation Apt Pupil.
Apt Pupil sees high school student Todd Bowden (Brad Renfro) discover a fugitive Nazi war criminal, Kurt Dussander (Ian McKellen), living in his neighborhood under a pseudonym. Bowden, obsessed with Nazism and the Holocaust, blackmails Dussander into sharing his horror stories, and their relationship stirs malice in each of them.
Be sure to subscribe to the podcast to get a new episode every Wednesday. You can subscribe on iTunes/Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeartRadio, SoundCloud, TuneIn, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, and RSS.
Episode 252: Apt Pupil (1998)
Keep the cat away...
- 10/23/2023
- by Trace Thurman
- bloody-disgusting.com
In 1982, Stephen King released a collection known in the film industry as a magic book. Different Seasons consists of four novellas each linked to a season of the year and contains the source material for some of Hollywood’s most successful films. The collection’s third novella, The Body is the inspiration for Rob Reiner’s Stand By Me and the first, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, was adapted into Frank Darabont’s film (with a shortened title) which still holds the highest ranking on IMDb. The only story that has yet to be adapted is the fourth novella, The Breathing Method, a Christmas Story about a horrifying miracle birth. Though aligned with summer, the second story in the collection, Apt Pupil, is easily the darkest. Subtitled Summer of Discontent, Apt Pupil tells the story of Todd Bowden, a teenager who blackmails his neighbor–a former Nazi hiding in...
- 11/30/2022
- by Jenn Adams
- bloody-disgusting.com
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