Misery (2018 Film)

Misery is the 2018 (spoof and fake) animation remake of the 1990 live-action crime horror film based on the Stephen King novel. The movie was produced by New Line Cinema & Carolco Pictures, and is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film was directed by Gore Verbinski and is screenplay by Justin Haythe & Joe Eszterhas.

Plot
A long time ago, a 10-year-old victim named Adrienna Wachs, who is abused by her strict parents, Misty & Merritt, who never loved her and forced her to torture the pigs and threaten to kill her if she disobeys them. And also, she killed her school teacher, Julie Joplin, and school principal, Clifford Carlsbad, before expelled for some treasons she committed. One fateful night, after she locked in the closet by her parents, she sneakly unclocks it and quitely goes to the kitchen, grabbed two sharp knives, and went upstairs to her parents bedroom, cutthroat both of her parents to death. But she goes back to the kitchen, cleans up both knives, and puts them in the knife pack like nothing happened. Due to the lack of evidence, Adrienna is acquitted of murder, but she is sent to the foster care center and is adopted by her strict foster parents, Burke & Hilary. But no matter how hard they tried, she ends up murdering her Burke & Hilary. She uses obscenity name-calling against the care center social worker, Kathleen, and uses a pocket-knife to kill Kathleen. And she was sentenced to adult prison for 200 years for capital murder.

30 years later, she made a prison break and finally escape from California. The police tried to look for Adrienna, but she remains at large. She hides in the lost cabin. During Winter, she rescues protagonist John Gorin after he breaks both of his legs in a car accident due to blizzard, and takes him back to her home to convalesce. She fawns over Gorin, a writer of romance novels starring her favorite literary character, Misty "Misery" Chastain; she professes to be his "number one fan" and says that she loves him. She also implies that she has visited the hotel where Gorin finishes his novels as he was staying there. These statements, and the fact that she is not in a hurry to take him to a hospital, make John uneasy. He has studied psychological disorders as part of his research for the Misery series, and suspects early on that Adrienna is mentally unstable.

Adrienna is furious when she discovers John killed off Misery at the end of his latest novel. She tells him she has not called a hospital or told anybody about him and makes a veiled threat on his life. She holds him captive in her home and subjects him to a series of physical and psychological tortures. She also forces him to burn the only copy of a novel he felt would put him back on track as a mainstream author, and then forces him to write a new novel bringing Misery back to life. John writes the book as Adrienna wants, but bridles at her treatment of him and manages to sneak out of his room twice while she's away.

On one of his trips out of his room, John finds Adrienna's old scrapbook and learns from the newspaper clippings inside that she is a serial killer whose spree dates back to her childhood in Bakersfield. Among her victims were her parents, her school teacher, her school principal, foster parents and the foster social worker. John also learns that she killed several patients at other hospitals where she worked. She escaped from Bakersfield Prison. She was tried for their deaths, but acquitted due to lack of evidence. John also finds that Adrienna was formerly married to a physical therapist named Ralph Dugan, who later divorced her, citing "mental cruelty". The last and final picture is an article about John's own disappearance, leading him to fear that he is Adrienna's next victim.

John doesn't know it, but she has known all along that he has been sneaking around her house. She straps him in bed, breaking his ankles and his elbows with a sledgehammer to stop him from escaping. The local sheriff, Buster Bennington, called by Marcia Sindell earlier, is investigating John's disappearance. When a shopkeeper, Bob Reynolds, informs the Buster he has sold Adrienna considerable quantities of typing paper, he comes to Adrienna's farm to investigate John's disappearance. She drugs him and hides him in her basement before subsequently killing Buster by bludgeoning him in the head with a sledgehammer when he hears John's cries for help.

Adrienna then says they should "celebrate" the new novel in a murder–suicide. John pretends to go along with it, telling her he needs a bottle of Dom Pérignon champagne and a cigarette, as per his usual practice after finishing a book. He soaks the manuscript with lighter fluid he quietly picked up in the basement and sets it ablaze. While Adrienna tries to put the fire out, John overpowers her by cracking her over the head with his typewriter and choking her. And he trips her onto the antler of a taxidermy deer, impaling through her mouth into her brain, killing her instantly. And a female deputy named Virginia Matheson arrived and rescued John Goran from Adrienna's now forbidden home. In the hospital, John has nightmares about the deadly haunting of Adrienna Wachs, but he wakes up in a hospital, treating for his injuries, by a real nurse, Susu, who is Paul's number one fan. But in his paranormal mind, Susu, possessed by Adrienna Wachs, ends up poisoning John to death offscreen, with one final scream from him.

Cast
Me (imitating so many voices as dubbed version for my unreleased homemade animated movies).
 * Skeet Ulrich as John Goran (Fictional Novelist)
 * Kristin Malko as Adrienna Wachs (Childhood murderer; deceased but became a ghost haunting John Goran)
 * Emily Carey as Young Adrienna Wachs
 * Marisa Tomei as Virginia Matheson
 * Mads Mikkelsen as Buster Bennington (deceased)
 * Mimi Kennedy as Marcia Sindell
 * Jessica Szohr as Misty Wachs (Adreinna's strict mother; murdered)
 * Ricardo Chavira as Merritt Wachs (Adreinna's strict father; murdered)
 * Irina Voronina as Julie Joplin (Adrienna's school teacher; deceased)
 * John Pappas as Clifford Carlsbad (Adrienna's school principal; deceased)
 * Angus Macfadyen as Burke (Adrienna's foster father; deceased)
 * Betsy Russell as Hilary (Adrienna's foster mother; deceased)
 * Caroline Cave as Kathleen (Foster Center social worker; deceased)
 * Tobin Bell as Bob Reynolds
 * Fiona Dourif as Nurse Susu

Soundtrack

 * "Misery" (performed by Gwen Stefani)

Trivia

 * The reason why the names of those two fictional characters, John Gorin & Adrienna Wachs, is because a real woman named Annie Wilkes, who sued Stephen King and Kathy Bates for improper use of her name. And there might be a real man named Paul Sheldon, who sued Stephen King and James Caan for improper use of his name.
 * This is Andrew G. Vajna's final film before his death on January 29, 2019.
 * This is the last film to be released by Carolco Pictures (even though it became Recall Studios in 2017 and is distributed by StudioCanal and Amblin Partners - for DreamWorks).
 * This is the first and only film to have James Moulton's prototype WarnerMedia byline on the 2018 Warner Bros./New Line Cinema logo.
 * This movie is recorded in Ultrasound System (formerly Ultra Stereo), a Dolby Laboratories company.

Release
Misery (2018 Film) has released in theaters in USA on July 13, 2018 by Warner Bros. Pictures.