Review #202: Misery (1990)
This review was originally written in 2022. Gabe's 100 Bucket List Horror Films Review #57: Misery (1990) Can I just point out that the same people who brought us The Princess Bride (Director/Producer Rob Reiner and Screenplay Writer William Goldman) made THIS? Blew my mind. Misery is a film based on a book by Stephen King, where a writer of a famous book series crashes his car during a snowstorm and is nursed back to health by a woman who claims to be his biggest fan. But as he recuperates, she starts becoming more and more unhinged, and soon the writer will be fighting (writing?) for his life. While I'd never seen this movie before, I definitely picked up on the majority of it through cultural osmosis (particularly a Family Guy sketch that pretty closely parodied it). Considering how just the other day I watched Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, which also featured a famous person stuck in an abusive relationship with a caregiver who refuses to let them leave, a lot of this mo...