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List Price: $29.95 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 13539
Released: October 12, 2004 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Kingdom Hospital is the first television series written and produced by Stephen King, the legendary master of horror. Kingdom Hospital is not like other hospitals - it is built on the wreckage of two horrific fires. The first fire, during the civil war, burned down the gates falls mill where small children toiled away under nightmarish conditions - nearly all of the long-suffering children were trapped and died in the fire. The second fire destroyed the "old Kingdom," a creepy hospital where an evil doctor performed hideous experiments on patients. The "new Kingdom" is the site of strange, paranormal phenomena, where the unquiet dead still roam.
Description of Stephen King Presents Kingdom Hospital: The Entire Series:
Kingdom Hospital is horror novelist Stephen King's adaptation of Danish director Lars Von Trier's cult miniseries 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 10-year-old child worker 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 Peaks and even ER. But too often, Kingdom Hospital seems 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 Hospital looks 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
Stephen King Presents Kingdom Hospital: The Entire Series Reviews:
Kingdom Hospital 
2009-11-15 - Didn't get a chance to see this series when it originally aired on TV. Saw it at a local video store to rent, and being the Stephen King fan that I am, I just had to rent it. Glad I did, but I knew seeing it once wasn't enough for me. Thank goodness for Amazon. I love being able to find movies that I would have a hard time finding anywhere else
Stephen King Presents Kingdon Hospital: The entire Series 
2009-10-26 - Arrived fast, plays great, great seller. I am sorry that I did not do this allreay, I actually thought I did....
Kingdom Hospital
2009-09-13 - Absolutely a hit for Stephen King fans everywhere!!! Even if you aren't a King fan, you will probably enjoy this series! Of course, since I am a die hard King fan, it was great for me!! As per his usual, King can come up with some warped fantasy!
Pure Genius - A Masterpiece
2009-04-19 - I just got this on DVD, have been wanting to see it again for years. It is pure genius and a masterpiece. Think Stephen King channeling Quentin Tarantino. Although, I want you to realize, that Kingdom Hospital is pure King and the previous comment is just an analogy. King has let us glimpse this genius in his writings, but he held nothing back in Kingdom Hospital. A must see for lovers of the shadows and things that go bump in the night.
Hospital Kingdom
2009-04-09 - This DVD, was all it was advertised, the price was very good and the seller sent the product just the way he advertised.
