The Dark Half

The Dark Half

There are very good reasons to be afraid of the dark.

1993122 min6.0 / 10

A dark psychological horror about a writer whose violent fictional alter ego becomes terrifyingly real, blending supernatural dread with questions of identity and creative responsibility.

Following the public's realization that Thad Beaumont and George Stark are one and the same, the former stages a mock funeral, only for a series of gruesome murders to begin occurring as in his books.

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