For this, Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates) believes that he needs to be punished, and does so by executing one of the most gruesome, hard-to-watch moments in the history of the horror genre.
There is a nice long spell in the middle of Rob Reiner’s Misery where you think that author Paul Sheldon (James Caan) is going to be okay.
But he makes one mistake: facing a ceramic penguin the wrong way after bumping into it.
While communication with the outside world remains an issue, he finds a way to escape his locked room and move around the house – even able to surreptitiously acquire a knife that he keeps under the mattress.