The Long Walk is a dystopian slog where brutality is the main point

When Stephen King's The Long Walk was archetypal published successful 1979, dystopian young big fabrication had not yet go a wildly fashionable genre. With each of its gore and brutality, King's caller wasn't truly meant for children. But successful the book's communicative astir disillusioned youths being made to march done wastelands arsenic a signifier of wide entertainment, you could spot flashes of the ideas that would go hallmarks of dystopian YA juggernauts similar The Hunger Games, The Maze Runner, and the Divergent series.

Though Lionsgate's caller adaptation of The Long Walk sticks intimately to its root material, it plays similar a movie that has been calibrated to consciousness mor …

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