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Exit Reality and Enter The Mind of Stephen King. The Nightmares and Dreamscapes of Stephen King.
13 July 2006
Warning: Spoilers
Nightmares and Dreamscapes is a total of 8 stories each are an hour of odd encounters and events. Episodes based on stories from the Nightmares and Dreamscapes collection are "Umney's Last Case", "You Know They Got a Hell of a Band", "The End of the Whole Mess", "The Fifth Quarter", and "Crouch End". The balance of episodes are adaptations of "The Road Virus Heads North", and "Autopsy Room Four", collected in Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales and, "Battleground", from the anthology Night Shift.

The show is currently on TNT showing 2 episodes a night on Wednesday Nights at 9:00 p.m. And 10:00 p.m. with an encore of the previous nights episodes on Thurdays nights at 11:00 p.m. And 12:00 p.m.

/Battleground\ Jason Renshaw (Hurt), a professional hit man, Successfully murders the CEO of a prestigious toy company, only to face the biggest fight of his life when a package from the toy company is delivered to his house with surprising, deadly contents.

/Crouch End\ A newlywed American couple (Bailey and Forlani) honeymooning in London goes to Crouch End to have dinner with a friend. They soon learn the town is not what it appears to be, and the more they get lost, the more they become trapped in another dimension

/Umney's Last Case\ After the death of his son, writer Sam Landry (Macy) is so desperate to lead another life, he writes himself into his own book, forcing his long-time character (also played by Macy) to change places with him and live in the modern day. But things get deadly when Landry realizes Umney is trapped and cannot write himself out of his new reality.

/The End of the Whole Mess\ The world had changed. Violence, war and hatred have been replaced with kindness, peace and love. But at what price? Renowned filmmaker Howie Fornoy (Livingston), with just one hour to live, recounts the details of his brother's (Thomas) worldwide experiment gone terribly wrong.

/The Road Virus Heads North\ Richard Kinnell (Berenger) is a famous writer who, at a doctor's visit, learns he may soon have to deal with his own mortality. On the drive back to his home, he buys a mysterious painting. Each time he looks at it, it changes to become more menacing and sinister. He pieces together that the painting is trying to kill him…but not if he can destroy it first.

/The Fifth Quarter\ Willie (Sisto), a just-released convict, learns from his dying friend of a map in four parts that reveals the location of several million dollars from a robbery. Seeking revenge for the death of his friend and the money, as well, Willie hunts down the others who hold the remaining three parts to the map, risking his family and his freedom.

/Autopsy Room Four\ Businessman Howard Cottrell (Thomas) is on vacation playing one of his many games of golf. Chasing the ball into the undergrowth, he is bitten by a snake and completely paralyzed, showing no signs of life. At the hospital, unable to communicate, he is the key witness to his own autopsy.

/You Know They Got A Hell of a Band\ A wrong turn on a lonely road turns frightening for Clark and Mary Willingham (Weber and Delaney) as they stumble upon a town not on any map - Rock and Roll Heaven, Oregon. There is a free concert every night, but the price of admission is high - once the audience enters, it can never leave.
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