Stephen King and superheroes don’t mix. King’s incredible sense for horror, usually rooted in domestic familiarity and about how the supernatural affects the lives of regular folks, is at odds with a bombastic, surreal, and (generally) hopeful superhero genre.
Now, in comments to The Times UK about The Long Walk, the latest adaptation of one of his novels, King says he doesn’t like superhero movies for the way they sanitize violence:
