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Released
1993 · FILM

The Dark Half

A bestselling author must confront and destroy his own murderous alter‑ego before the killer’s blood‑lust turns fiction into a real-life killing spree.

“There are very good reasons to be afraid of the dark.”

Directed by
George A Romero
Written by
Stephen King, George A Romero
Runtime
122 min
HorrorMysteryThriller

Synopsis

After the public discovers that Thad Beaumont and George Stark are the same person, Beaumont organizes a mock funeral for the fictional character. Shortly afterward, a series of brutal murders begins, mirroring the events in his novels.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Pasquale BubaShot by Tony Pierce RobertsScored by Christopher YoungDesigned by Cletus Anderson

Box Office

1993 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.7× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$10.6M

Budget$15.0M
Worldwide gross$10.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $3.3M — 31% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $4.2M — 39% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,563 theaters

Also known as

  • Stephen Kings Starkde
  • La Part des ténèbresfr
  • La metà oscurait

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