10/47

Tom Hiddleston, Karen Gillan, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and David Dastmalchian have all appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, though none of them share scenes together

Narrative

A life-affirming, genre-bending story based on Stephen King’s short story about three chapters in the life of an ordinary man named Charles Krantz. Hiddleston is Loki and is best associated with the Thor films (2011) and the Loki television series (2021), Gillan is Nebula and is best associated with the Čuvari galaksije films (2014), Ejiofor is Baron Mordo from the Doctor Strange films (2016), while Dastmalchian is Kurt from the first 2 Ant-Man films and Veb in Ant-Man i Wasp: Kvantumanija (2023).

Referenced in Front Row Flynn: SLEEPING DOGS: Karen Gillan, Adam Cooper, moderator Perri Nemiroff (2024)

I went into The Life of Chuck knowing nothing about it other than that it was a Stephen King short story. I assumed it would be a horror movie, and I was wrong, in the best sense of the word.

Mike Flanagan was a director I was also unfamiliar with, so my expectations were pretty much empty

That being said, The Life of Chuck nailed the principles of what makes a great horror movie: fleshed out, engaging characters with a unique, mysterious situation to put them in. I want to leave my review relatively vague because I think the movie’s hook works best without knowing much about it.

I recommend it

I left the movie feeling both joyful and melancholic, and I appreciated the art that brought me there.