When he’s not bashing out literary tales of terror, Stephen King seems to spend a lot of his downtime watching as many movies and TV shows as possible, and the ones he really enjoys end up being highly recommended to his millions of social media followers.
Having been left blown away by Apple TV’s recently-concluded sci-fi series Silo, the master of horror was in need of something new to enjoy given that there’s going to be a long wait before it returns for a second season. Fortunately enough, it hasn’t taken him long to stumble upon The Lesson, which has been given a glowing appraisal by someone who knows their way around a chiller or two.
Director Alice Troughton’s unheralded thriller – which boasts a Certified Fresh approval rating of 86 percent on Rotten Tomatoes – finds Daryl McCormack’s aspiring writer accepting a tutoring position at the sprawling estate of Richard E. Grant’s legendary author. However, it doesn’t take long for the bright-eyed and bushy-tailed upstart to discover something is seriously amiss with the Sinclair family, who draw him deeper and deeper into a web of intrigue, secrets, and revenge.
The Lesson only released yesterday, too, so King clearly hasn’t wasted any time attempting to mobilize the troops and ensure it finds a sizeable audience, which it no doubt will. After all, if the titan of terror himself is heartily endorsing an acclaimed genre tale, then plenty of folks will be emboldened to seek it out for themselves as a result of his thumbs-up.