Top 10 Stephen King Cameos!
Stephen King is obviously a huge part of our culture and has been for decades. He's also my hero and just an all around great guy. In honor of me finally seeing IT Chapter Two with his adorable cameo, I've rounded up some of his best cameos so you can keep an eye out when you re-watch!
In no particular order:
#10 - Band Leader in The Shining miniseries
There was a Shining miniseries I hear you asking? Yes my spooky friends, there was a miniseries. Mick Garris directed this three part series for ABC in 1997 who would only adapt it if King promised to not bad mouth the film version. Both Sam Raimi and Frank Darabont cameo in it too! But King shows up as the creepy mustache wearing band leader named Gage Creed and it's pretty great.
#9 - Pawn Shop Owner in IT Chapter Two
He was so adorable in this. He’s a crotchety old store owner, bartering for the price of a bike, and insulting the ending of Bill’s book.
#8 - The Cleaner in Sons of Anarchy
King was a huge fan of SOA and was thrilled when he got to cameo as Dick Bachman aka The Cleaner in a 2010 episode. He gets to ride a motorcycle, wear a cool leather jacket and show he's always going to be a total bad ass. In the show he's the go-to man for cleaning up the messes and listens to 80's music while doing so.
#7 - Jordy Verrill in Creepshow
One of my favorite Creepshow stories, King reunited with Romero to play the title character in the anthology Creepshow. King shows some serious acting talent here playing a redneck who gets consumed by alien vegetation.
#6 - Truck Driver in Creepshow 2
King was invited back for the sequel and in this round he plays a hillbilly trucker with a couple of lines. Romero wrote the screenplay for the second film and Michael Gornick directed it.
#5 - Asshole at the ATM in Maximum Overdrive
One of the craziest films I've EVER seen is Maximum Overdrive, a cocaine fulled nightmare. King's directorial debut and his only ever attempt at it, he also claims this is the worst adaptation of all his books. But that was before Cell was made....I JOKE, I JOKE! This is one of my favorite cameos.
#4 - Cemetery Groundskeeper in Sleepwalkers
Written by Stephen King and directed by Mick Garris, this cameo is epic because it includes Tobe Hooper and Clive Barker. THE HOLY TRINITY. Sort of.
#3 - Minister in Pet Sematary
Pet Sematary is one of my favorite King books and one of my favorite adaptations. It came out in 1989 and is directed by Mary Lambert. Never forget how TERRIFYING Zelda is....There was also a new remake this year (check out my review HERE).
King plays the Minister overseeing the funeral of Gage Creed and there's something really spooky about that performance.
#2 - Teddy Weizak in The Stand
Probably one of King's adaptations that most people talk about fondly and absolutely a fan favorite book. The Stand was a TV mini-series that played in 1994 and King gets to play a 2 episode arc as Weizak.
#1 - Himself in The Simpsons
That's right, King got to play a Simpson's version of himself in the episode "Insane Clown Poppy". Drew Barrymore also appears in the episode as the character Sophie. Barrymore was in two King adaptations - Firestarter and Cat's Eye. It originally aired in 2000 on November 12th. Marge encounters King at a book fair where he tells her that he didn't feel like writing horror anymore so was writing a biography on Benjamin Franklin. It's a really funny moment!
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