Two Stephen King shorts for a dollar? That's cheaper than therapy and somehow more traumatic.
Stephen King's "dollar baby" double bill consisting of Frank Darabont's The Woman in the Room (1984) and Jeff Schiro's The Boogeyman (1982).
Direction
Darabont's debut shows Shawshank brilliance in embryo.
Practical Effects
Boogeyman creature design: deeply unhinged closet chaos.
Director
Frank Darabont
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
King's 'dollar baby' program let students adapt his shorts for $1—Darabont later paid him back with The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile.
The Woman in the Room was considered unfilmable for years due to its euthanasia subject; Darabont shot it in 8 days on 16mm.
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