1998's Apt Pupil is a Disney movie compared to Stephen King's horrific novella. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In reflection, ...

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Bryan Singer’s intentions in this deeply misguided film, his second feature, may have been good. Adapted from a short story by Stephen King, this tells the tale of an overachieving high schooler named ...

Years before his sexual assault allegations came to light, Bryan Singer followed up his breakthrough film, The Usual Suspects, with an adaptation of Stephen King’s short story, Apt Pupil. One of ...

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Some movies feel more… apt today, do they not? Even some of the Stephen King ones. They might have been pretty good upon release, but they feel much more resonant in the present climate. There are a ...

After a long and troubled journey, a film version of Stephen King's novella Apt Pupil has finally made it to the screen. Too bad it didn't take a lot longer. Directed with steamroller-like grace by ...

One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles that of Kurt Dussander, a wanted Nazi war criminal.