Stars: Andrew McCarthy, Bruce Davison, Diane Ladd, Ed Begley Jr., Ed Begley

Director: Craig R. Baxley

Summary: Television series based on a hospital which has been built on the wreckage of two horrific fires. Written and produced by Stephen King.

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Kingdom Hospitalis horror novelist Stephen King's adaptation of Danish director Lars Von Trier's cult mini-series The Kingdom, geared very much for an American audience. The story unfolds across 15 hours, telling the story of a hospital in Maine that's been built on the site of a 19th Century mill fire that killed most of its young occupants--themes that King fans will be familiar with. In the present day, Kingdom Hospital is haunted by the ghost of ten-year-old child labourer Mary and, even more bizarrely, a fearsome giant anteater-like creature called Antubis. It falls to the ace doctor Hook (Andrew McCarthy), the paraplegic artist Jack Coleman (Peter Rickman) and the hypochondriac psychic Sally Druse (Diane Ladd) to enlist the help of a surreal assortment of hospital staff and patients to help Mary and save Kingdom Hospital itself from certain doom.

Fans of Stephen King will probably enjoy the blend of black comedy, spectral horror and general weirdness, which owes a big debt to previous television series like Twin Peaksand even ER. But too often, Kingdom Hospitalseems to be trying too hard to make itself into a cult series, something which King is just not a subtle enough writer to carry off. But Kingdom Hospitallooks good, especially the CGI Antubis, who steals every scene in which he appears. Generally, though, the series is more of an entertaining experiment than a cult-in-the-making. --Ted Kord

Aspect Ratio:	1.78 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Making Of Kingdom Hospital, Filmmakers Commentary, 3 Featurettes
Subtitles:	English, Hindi
Year:	2004
Release Date:	August 9, 2004
Runtime:	580 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	C D R P 1574
Keywords:	Kingdom, Hospital, General, Four, Stephen, Horror, Complete, Occult, Discs, Sci, Fi, King's
Genre:	Horror/Occult