Gerald's Game (1992)
Very dramatic and tense......one of my King's fav of all time......
The story: The story begins with Jessie Burlingame and her husband Gerald in the bedroom of their solitary cabin in western Maine, where they have gone for an off-beat romantic weekend. Gerald, who is a successful lawyer with an aggressive personality, has been able to re-invigorate the couple's sex life by fastening Jessie to the bed with handcuffs. Jessie has been into the game before, but suddenly she balks at the idea. As Gerald starts to crawl on top of Jessie pretending her protests are fake, she kicks him hard in the crotch which causes him to have a fatal heart attack. Jessie is alone in the cabin and unable to move or summon help. There is nothing to do but see if anyone shows up.The only things that do show up is a hungry stray dog that starts feeding on Gerald's body and an unpleasant, deformed apparition that may or may not be real; Jessie begins to think of this bizarre visitor as "The Space Cowboy" (after a line from a Steve Miller song, "The Joker"). A combination of panic and thirst eventually causes Jessie to hallucinate. She hears voices in her head, each one ostensibly the voice of people in her life, primarily Ruth Neary and Nora Callighan, old friends from college that Jessie hasn't spoken to in decades, but these voices actually represent a different side of her personality which may actually help her extract a painful childhood memory she has kept suppressed all these years. She also begins to realize the state of her marriage to Gerald, which has produced an unhappy housewife in Jessie, who realizes that she has given up her life's choices to fulfill her husband's wishes of him bringing home the paycheck.............
