The star debuted the Mike Flanagan-directed Stephen King adaptation in L.A. on Monday, after the film won big at TIFF last year.

Mike Flanagan takes on another Stephen King adaptation in “Life of Chuck,” in theaters Friday. The film is a cosmic puzzle about an ordinary man, played by Tom Hiddleston.

Most know Stephen King as today’s most revered horror author, the expert conjurer of the kinds of macabre souls that are embedded in our nightmares — the killer clown Pennywise from “It,” the all-work-and-no-play Jack Torrance from “The Shining” and the wackadoodle fan Annie Wilkes from “Misery.”