Horror writer a la Stephen King has personal problems which in the end overwhelm him.. vignette scenes of writer's imagination include everything from bad-seed kids to demonic priests and nuns, some of this is downright scary!.. in his actual life, the writer experiences problems with his wife (coke-addicted adulteress) and business (hostile relations with producer and star actress), but most of all a public (and private) backlash against his work (reminiscent of the later IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS), which comes to a screeching crash when his children play out a deadly scene from one of his film adaptations.. scarier still perhaps is his descent into depressive madness, with a drugged-out hooker party captivating the line between real and surreal (even though it's real), and the ever-present memory of his dead daughter in his, and our, face, reminding that wealth and fame don't conquer every tragedy.. Stephen Young does a great deadpan job, and the music is haunting, especially the closing theme..
