An eight-episode series available Friday on Apple TV+ The astonishingly prolific King adapts his 2006 novel “Lisey’s Story” into an eight-part Apple TV+ series, and that’s great but also a little troublesome, as the author might have been too close to his own work (one of his most personal stories) to trim the excess exposition off the bone. “Lisey’s Story” feels overstuffed at times and might have been even sharper and more terrifying if it had clocked in with five or six total episodes, but this is still an elegantly haunting journey with memorably raw and real performances from three of the best actresses in the world Julianne Moore, Joan Allen and Jennifer Jason Leigh as sisters whose bond has to stay strong enough to withstand the relentless onslaught of a crazed stalker, not to mention the dangers lurking in a world just outside the borders of reality. Clive Owen is also a standout as a Stephen King-esque author who has achieved enormous success, weal
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It’s horror season in Hollywood right now. Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead dropped on Netflix last month, A Quiet Place Part 2 just landed in theaters and the Peter Rabbit sequel is horrifying audiences into wishing they’d never ventured out of their homes.
But anthropomorphic bunnies voiced by James Corden aren’t the only scary sight to enjoy (or not enjoy?) this weekend. As well as new additions to horror streamer Shudder, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It arrives on HBO Max in the US alongside its theatrical release to add a few more frights to your watch list.