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Misery at 30: a terrifying look at the toxicity of fandom – The Guardian
Rob Reiner’s entertaining adaptation of Stephen King’s darkly funny novel remains horribly effective thanks in large part to a never-better Kathy Bates
Im your number one fan.
Innocent compliment or deranged admission? Thanks to Annie Wilkes, the wild-eyed, romantic potboiler-loving villain of Misery, the expression will always come off a bit creepy. Perhaps thats unavoidable these days given the rise of toxic fandoms, yet before internet echo chambers bred hyper-obsessives en masse, Rob Reiners 1990 adaptation of the Stephen King novel plumbed the horrors of unhinged celebrity worship.
Thirty years later Misery is memorable enough as a brisk two-hander…
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