‘The Running Man’ Stumbles Too Much Through Tired Dystopia Cliches

Back when Stephen King wrote The Running Man, it might have seemed like a nice short novel about a dystopia world. Published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, it was the second novel he had published under the name set in a Fascist cruel world. Yet the bleakness of 1970s paranoia gave us numerous sci-fi movies with dark and depressing tones, so itContinue reading “‘The Running Man’ Stumbles Too Much Through Tired Dystopia Cliches”