Decades later, unsettling ideas presented by horror great Stephen King in “The Running Man” continue to resonate.

Published in 1982 under the pen name Richard Bachman, “The Running Man” is set in a dystopian future in which one massive corporation controls virtually everything. That includes dangerous game shows offering citizens the rare chance to make significant money, the most popular, potentially profitable and dangerous of which is “The Running Man,” a contest requiring survival that, well, no one survives.

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