As a cultural movement, the Italian Renaissance affected only a small part of the population. Italy was the most urbanized region of Europe, but three quarters of the people were still rural peasants. For this section of the population, life remained essentially unchanged from the Middle Ages.
Although I enjoyed the book, The Hellbound Heart, the movie version, Hellraiser - with the awesomely cheesy blue and yellow 80's FX - is a bit better and mainly because it was more fully realized.
The cover for the first Dark Tower book, The Gunslinger. Grant. A movie adaptation of the first book Dark Tower book, The Gunslinger, has already been written by Jeff Pinkner (Fringe, Lost) and Akiva Goldsman (Winterâs Tale, Angels & Demons, I Am Legend, The Da Vinci Code).