Graveyard Shift with Akela Cooper
Episode 127, May 25, 2022, 08:00 AM
Akela Cooper, the writer and producer behind Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Malignant, joins the Kingcast boys to dig into mutated rat-bats, Stephen Macht's outrageous Maine accent and Brad Dourif's commitment to the bit. Akela also regales Vespe and Wampler with stories about her discover of Stephen King, the importance of Silver Bullet, her own personal Uncle Red dishing out dirty jokes left and right and she even digs into some tea about our boy Gabriel and all that went into bringing Malignant to life.
Today's topic: Stephen King's Graveyard Shift, an early short story from the master that was made into a very fun, often overlooked B-movie of the same name.