The Long Walk is a dystopian slog where brutality is the main point
When Stephen King's The Long Walk was first published in 1979, dystopian young adult fiction had not yet become a wildly popular genre. With all of its gore and brutality, King's novel wasn't really meant for children. But in the book's story about disillusioned youths being made to march through wastelands as a form of mass entertainment, you could see flashes of the ideas that would become hallmarks of dystopian YA juggernauts like The Hunger Games, The Maze Runner, and the Divergent series.
Though Lionsgate's new adaptation of The Long Walk sticks closely to its source material, it plays like a movie that has been calibrated to feel mor ...