"Bag of Bones" (with Katharine Coldiron)

Framed & Bound

In this episode, writer and editor Katharine Coldiron visits Framed & Bound to discuss the 2011 adaptation of Stephen King’s novel Bag of Bones, about a writer dealing with grief, writer’s block, and ghosts. She’s the author of the books Ceremonials and Junk Film: Why Bad Movies Matter — as well as the forthcoming collection Wire Mothers: Stories.

Discussed in this episode: Canadian locations, the very unsettling implications of this miniseries’s climax, refrigerator magnets, whether or not ghosts can make cars explode, and several other films that have nothing to do with writers or ghosts, but are pretty entertaining.

Bag of Bones features one of the most memorable onscreen depictions of writer’s block ever. You can purchase it via Apple TV.

Bag of Bones director Mick Garris is among the writers and directors interviewed in the documentary King on Screen, which I wrote about in late 2022.