![]() ![]() Newspaper Clippings of the Damned (1.02 - "Habeas Corpus") Henry Deaver finds in Warden Lacy's desk a ream of newspaper clippings, referring to the mad dog attack in Cujo and the mysterious disappearance of curio salesman Leland Gaunt, the satanic villain of Needful Things. IT's in the Bathtub (1.02 - "Habeas Corpus") Warden Lacy's voice-over describes the scene of various untimely deaths in his own home, one of which looks suspiciously like the tragic suicide from Stephen King's It. (Read on.) The Body (1.02 - "Habeas Corpus") "It was the fall after they found the body by the railroad tracks," Warden Lacy remembers, referring to the events of Stephen King's short story The Body, which was later adapted into the Oscar-nominated drama Stand By Me. Frank Dodd, who has been dead for many years but who will be important later. The Strangler? (1.02 - "Habeas Corpus") Warden Lacy also invites the audience to remember "The Strangler," referring to the Bangor Strangler, a.k.a. Bernard named Cujo, who trapped a woman and her son in a car in one of Stephen King's most terrifying stories (and who might, according to the book, be possessed by The Bangor Strangler). Remember the Dog? (1.02 - "Habeas Corpus") Warden Lacy tells the horrifying history of Castle Rock in short snippets, inviting us all to "remember the dog," referring to the terrifying and rabid St. (Thanks to commenter "smebster" for catching this reference!) The Castle Rock Title Sequence It's unclear how many of the references in the Castle Rock title sequence are important to the events of the series, but they seem to reach far and wide, painting a picture of horror that stretches across Maine, and through such Stephen King stories as The Thing, It and The Green Mile. Room 2+17=19) and the TV series Kingdom Hospital, where the ambulance was "Unit 19." So it's certainly no coincidence that Henry Deaver went missing on, as we see on his missing posters. Janu(Episode 1.01 “Severance”) Stephen King uses the number "19" repeatedly in his works, most prominently in the Dark Tower stories but also in stories like The Shining (Room 217, i.e. Which sets this story up as the "Anti-Green Mile," a concept which will be elaborated on later. Jingles (Episode 1.01 “Severance”) When The Kid sees a mouse squeaking along in Shawshank, the mouse doesn't get resurrected. It's also probably the same airport where a group of chronally-displaced airline passengers escaped the time-eating Langoliers. ![]() Bangor, Maine (Episode 1.01 “Severance”) Alan Pangborn tells Henry Deaver his father's corpse has been moved outside an airport in Bangor, the town Stephen King calls home in real life. Alan Pangborn Sheriff Alan Pangborn may be retired now, but that's after a lifetime of service to Castle Rock, fending off homicidal maniacs in The Dark Half and the devil himself, more or less, in Needful Things. According to the staff, you can still see the bullet hole. Warden Samuel Norton (Episode 1.01 “Severance”) The corrupt warden of Shawshank Prison, who kept Andy Dufresne wrongfully imprisoned, took his own life in his office. Decades ago a wrongly convicted man named Andy Dufresne escaped Shawshank's clutches in the Oscar-nominated classic The Shawshank Redemption. ![]() Shawshank Prison A vastly corrupt institution that nevertheless employs a sizable amount of the Castle Rock population. Melanie Lynskey co-starred in the TV mini-series Rose Red, Terry O'Quinn co-starred in the werewolf film Silver Bullet, Frances Conroy co-starred in the TV adaptation of The Mist, and Ann Cusack appeared in Mr. Bill Skarsgard recently terrified audiences as the demonic clown Pennywise in Andy Muschietti's It. Sissy Spacek earned an Oscar nomination for her role as the psychic teenager Carrie White in Brian De Palma's Carrie. The Castle Rock Cast Many of the cast members of Castle Rock are Stephen King veterans. The fictional community has been a lynchpin of King's work, connecting multiple stories and serving as the primary location for the classics Needful Things, Cujo, The Dead Zone, The Dark Half and The Body (better known to movie fans as Stand By Me). Castle Rock No discussion of the Stephen King references in Castle Rock can begin without addressing Castle Rock itself.
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