Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King — Season 1TV-14

Season 1

Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King
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Season 1

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Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King (2006), Season 1 — watch online on iFILM: eight standalone episodes, each adapting a different King short story. American–Australian co-production, no through-line — every episode its own closed world.

A contract killer finds his latest victim's mother has mailed him a toy chest full of soldiers with a grudge. Newlyweds on their honeymoon wander into a London neighbourhood that does not appear on any map. A horror writer buys a painting at a yard sale — it keeps changing, and no matter what he does with it, it comes back. A man fully conscious from a snake bite lies in an autopsy room, unable to signal that he is alive. Two wrong-turn tourists land in a town where the residents are dead rock legends who never let anyone leave.

The cast is consistently strong — William Hurt, William H. Macy, Ron Livingston, Henry Thomas. Individual episode quality varies, but at its best ("Battleground," "Umney's Last Case") the anthology stands among the sharper King adaptations. Stream Nightmares & Dreamscapes Season 1 online on iFILM.

Season 1

8 episodes

  • Battleground
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    Battleground

    July 12, 2006 · 53 min

    Professional hitman Renshaw finds himself the target when he kills a toymaker and the victim’s mother sends Renshaw a present: a toy foot locker filled with toy soldiers equipped to kill.

  • Crouch End
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    Crouch End

    July 12, 2006 · 44 min

    Lonnie and Doris Freeman, an American couple honeymooning in London, go to a friend's house for dinner but end up stranded in the mysterious Crouch End district. The area is strangely abandoned except for some bikers and free-range children, and the couple soon realize they're trapped in a place where the barriers between dimensions are weak... and they may be next to be sucked in to somewhere else.

  • Umney's Last Case
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    Umney's Last Case

    July 19, 2006 · 51 min

    In 1938, private eye Clyde Umney has it all – a successful career, adoring clients, and a beautiful secretary. But the arrival of the building owner, Sam Landry, throws his life into chaos when he arrives and tells Clyde that he’s evicting Clyde... permanently.

  • The End of the Whole Mess
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    The End of the Whole Mess

    July 19, 2006 · 44 min

    Young genius Bobby Fornoy comes up with a chemical cure for human violence. With the aid of his brother Howie, he comes up with a way to implement it worldwide. But the 'cure' comes with a horrible side effect.

  • The Road Virus Heads North
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    The Road Virus Heads North

    July 26, 2006 · 45 min

    Writer Richard Kinnell is on a way back from a check-up where he's found out he may soon be facing death. On his way home, he stops off at a garage sale and is intrigued by a painting of a vicious killer driving a car. Kinnell buys the portrait, but as he heads home he realises that the painting is...changing. The car in the picture is following his route, and getting closer with every minute...

  • The Fifth Quarter
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    The Fifth Quarter

    July 26, 2006 · 46 min

    After a long prison stint, Willie Evans is released on probation and promises his wife Karen to go straight. However, during the night, his former cellmate, Barney, who had lived with Karen for a period, appears in their trailer, bleeding. He reveals that he participated in a $3.5 million heist with four other criminals, the leader hid the money and gave one quarter of the map to each hoodlum.

  • Autopsy Room Four
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    Autopsy Room Four

    August 2, 2006 · 43 min

    Howard Cottrell is on vacation playing golf. Chasing the ball into the undergrowth, he's bitten by a snake and completely paralyzed, showing no sign of life. At the hospital, unable to communicate, Howard is the key witness to his own autopsy.

  • You Know They Got a Hell of a Band
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    You Know They Got a Hell of a Band

    August 2, 2006 · 43 min

    A wrong turn on a lonely road turns frightening for computer programmer Clark Rivingham and his wife Mary as they stumble upon a town not on any map — Rock and Roll Heaven, Oregon. There's a free concert every night, but the price of admission is high — once the audience enters, it can never leave.

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