This movie is actually one of King's better film adaptations, perhaps because of the work of George Romero as director. Timothy Hutton is well-cast both as the gentle writer and as the hard-boiled Steel: so much so it's hard to recognize Hutton as the latter. There's a lot to say about writers and writing in this, and it adequately captures the essence of the novel without falling into the King traps of endless exposition unsuitable to the screen. Among King movies Dark Half seems to be the black sheep of the family: it's rarely mentioned as either a bomb or a great work, but it's much closer to the latter.
Review of The Dark Half
