'The Long Walk' Review: Stephen King's Ultimate Horror Is the United States Itself

Stephen King has made a lot of things scary over the years. Hotels. Classic cars. St. Bernards. Corn. That one laundry machine. Aliens that are super into butts. But in many of his stories, the greatest horror is what human beings do to each other just because they can. We all know how despicable people can be, and that's why King's stories still resonate. Maybe not the alien butt one, but a lot of them, certainly. "The Long Walk" is one of those tales. It's based on the very first novel Stephen King started writing, way back in the mid-1960s, and it plays a lot like the kind of . . .