Screening of: The Life Of Chuck

The Bioscope is excited to present screenings of ‘The Life Of Chuck’, a film born from the boldly unique imagination of Stephen King, and the heart and soul of director Mike Flanagan.

Directed by: Mike Flanagan. Drama Fantasy Sci-Fi. Dur 1hr 50mins. 16 D L V – 110 min.

A life-affirming, genre-bending story based on Stephen King’s novella about three chapters in the life of an ordinary man named Charles Krantz.

Further notes from director Mike Flanagan – “If you look at Stephen King’s body of work, particularly titles like The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, he has always exhibited an incredibly humanistic approach to storytelling and has straddled a lot of genres beyond just horror, even though that is primarily what he is known for. In my own work, I’ve existed entirely within the horror genre for my whole professional career, but what he and I have in common is a deep love for human beings.

King has famously said that what separates his horror from his contemporaries is that horror in his stories cannot exist without love, and cannot exist without hope. His constant readers know this. We feel the beauty, even in the darkest of his novels. King has always had his heart in his work and I can think of a few examples where it doesn’t quite make it to the screen in an obvious way. Yet, with CHUCK, I can’t think of a single other story he’s ever written in which that joy, that heart, that earnestness and that humanism is as foregrounded in the story as this one.”

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