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From a Buick 8 - Wikipedia
And yet, From a Buick 8 is a novel I love, and have returned to far more frequently than I ever expected to upon my first read. What can I say? I'm a stone-cold sucker for any story involving extra-dimensional portals vomiting insane alien creatures into our reality. As such, I have long wished for someone to adapt From a Buick 8 for the screen. I wouldn't expect it to be a crossover hit.
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Stephen King’s FROM A BUICK 8 is Getting Its Very Own Movie
Shortly after his father, a Pennsylvania state trooper, is killed in a senseless automobile accident, Ned Wilcox discovers that the members of Troop D have a secret concealed behind their headquarters. Curtis Wilcox's friends and colleagues take turns relating the twenty-year history of the mysterious Buick Roadmaster locked in Shed B and how its discovery and unexplained behavior has captivated the tightly knit group of men for two decades. The Buick seems to be a conduit to another reality and every now and then it breathes, inhaling a little bit of this world, exhaling a little bit of whatever world it came from. Is something missing from this page? You appear to be using Internet Explorer 7 or earlier.
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The story begins enticingly when a mysterious man dressed in black rolls into a gas station for a fill-up and forthwith disappears leaving his evil vintage car behind. Unfortunately though, except for a few freaky monster moments and light shows, the plot was long, lacking and laborious. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions.
From a Buick 8 is a horror novel by American writer Stephen King. Published on September 24, , this is the second novel by King to feature a supernatural car the first one being Christine , which like this novel is set in Western Pennsylvania. According to the book sleeve: " From a Buick 8 is a novel about our fascination with deadly things, about our insistence on answers when there are none, about terror and courage in the face of the unknowable. The novel is a series of recollections by the members of Troop D, a Pennsylvania State Police barracks in western Pennsylvania. After Curtis Wilcox, a well-liked member of Troop D, is killed by a drunk driver, his son Ned begins to visit the barracks. The cops, the dispatcher and the custodian quickly take a liking to him. The troopers begin telling Ned about the "Buick 8".
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Addison Mehr and Priya Amritraj will be executive producers.
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