Kingdom Hospital - The Entire Series

Kingdom Hospital is horror novelist Stephen King's adaptation of Danish director Lars Von Trier's cult miniseries The Kingdom, geared very much for an American audience. The story unfolds across 15 hours, telling the story of a hospital in Maine that's been built on the site of a 19th-century mill fire that killed most of its young occupants--themes that King fans will be familiar with. In the present day, Kingdom Hospital is haunted by the ghost of 10-year-old child worker Mary and, even more bizarrely, a fearsome giant anteater-like creature called Antubis. It falls to the ace doctor Hook (Andrew McCarthy), the paraplegic artist Jack Coleman (Peter Rickman), and the hypochondriac psychic Sally Druse (Diane Ladd) to enlist the help of a surreal assortment of hospital staff and patients to help Mary and save Kingdom Hospital itself from certain doom.

Fans of Stephen King will probably enjoy the blend of black comedy, spectral horror, and general weirdness, which owes a big debt to previous television series like Twin Peaks and even ER. But too often, Kingdom Hospital seems to be trying too hard to make itself into a cult series, something which King is just not a subtle enough writer to carry off. But Kingdom Hospital looks good, especially the CGI Antubis, who steals every scene in which he appears. Generally, though, the series is more of an entertaining experiment than a cult-in-the-making.

Movie Details

Cast: Andrew McCarthy, Bruce Davison, Diane Ladd, Brandon Bauer, Jack Coleman, Jennifer Cunningham, Meagen Fay, Lena Georgas, Jamie Harrold, Allison Hossack, Suki Kaiser, Sherry Miller, Del Pentecost, Julian Richings, Kett Turton, William Wise, Ed Begley Jr., Michael Adamthwaite, John Cassini, Ivan Cermak, Michael Daingerfield, William B. Davis, Brad Dryborough, Jodelle Ferland, Lorena Gale, Christopher Heyerdahl, Eric Keenleyside, Stephen King, Michael Lerner, Evangeline Lilly, Brenda McDonald, Bill Meilen, Peter New, Ty Olsson, Paul Perri, Gerard Plunkett, Benjamin Ratner, Ryan Robbins, Klodyne Rodney, Tygh Runyan, Zak Santiago, Alan Scarfe, Gary Sekhon, Ron Selmour, William Morgan Sheppard, Jim Shield, Peter Shinkoda, Emily Tennant, Christine Willes, Janet Wright, Geoff Redknap
Running time: 608 min
DVD Aspect Ratios: 1.78:1

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DVD Features:

Filmmakers Commentary

Patients and Doctors: The Cast of Kingdom Hospital

Designing Kingdom Hospital: A Tour

The Magic of Antubis

Inside the Walls: The Making of Kingdom Hospital

DVD International release dates:
North America: Oct 12, 04