2017 was home to four Stephen King adaptations: “It,” “Gerald’s Game,” “The Dark Tower,” (I didn’t say they were all good adaptations), and the most slept on, “1922.” Released without much advance publicity on Netflix ahead of Halloween, the movie had the least source material to draw from.
Instead of a tome like “It” or an eight-book series like “The Dark Tower,” “1922” was based on a novella from King’s collection “Full Dark, No Stars.”Set in, you guessed it, 1922, the film and book star Wilfred James (Thomas Jane in the film), a Nebraskan farmer who murders his wife Arlette (Molly Parker) with the help of their teenage son Hank (Dylan Schmid).
Wilfred is haunted by the deed and his guilt is embodied by a ghost of Arlette and a swarm of rats, both of which may or may not be a hallucination.King isn’t just one of the most prolific authors working,
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