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3 days ago · Directed By:Taylor Hackford. #8. The Shining(1980) 83%. #8. Adjusted Score: 94543%. Critics Consensus:Though it deviates from Stephen King's novel, Stanley Kubrick's The Shiningis a chilling, often baroque journey into madness -- exemplified by an unforgettable turn from Jack Nicholson.
The 20 best Stephen King movies. List your movie, TV & celebrity picks. 1. The Shawshank Redemption. A banker convicted of uxoricide forms a friendship over a quarter century with a hardened convict, while maintaining his innocence and trying to remain hopeful through simple compassion. 2. The Green Mile. A tale set on death row, where gentle ...
Aug 5, 2021 · 6. Pet Sematary. Mary Lambert ’s 1989 film, with a screenplay adapted by King himself, gorgeously captures the allure of old folktales, lost artifacts in the woods, and the abiding sadness of ...
- The Dead Zone
- Gerald's Game
- The Mist
- Creepshow
- The Green Mile
- Stand by Me
- It: Chapter One
- Doctor Sleep
- Carrie
- Misery
Director: David Cronenberg Long before Stephen King's 1979 novel The Dead Zoneserved as fodder for a TV series, it inspired a 1983 film from director David Cronenberg. Cronenberg, who'd already made a name for himself with surreal horror films like Videodrome and Shivers, brought that signature touch to this gripping psychological drama. The Dead Z...
Director: Mike Flanagan For years it was thought King's 1992 outing Gerald's Game, which involves a woman handcuffed to a bed fighting to free herself after her husband has a heart attack, was un-adaptable. But then writer/director Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass) came along and knocked it out of the park. Starring Carla Gu...
Director: Frank Darabont The Mist is based on a King short story found in the 1985 collection Skeleton Crew. Ostensibly a monster movie, The Mist finds a group of people trapped in a remote grocery store after a strange fog envelops the region and terrifying, dinosaur-like creatures begin appearing. But the core of this horror/sci-fi fusion is surv...
Director: George A. Romero Horror legends Stephen King and George Romero teamed up for 1982's Creepshow, which was conceived as an homage to the Golden Age of horror comics in the 1950's, including E.C. Comics' infamous releases and DC books like House of Secrets and House of Mystery. That anthology legacy is reflected in the execution of Creepshow...
Director: Frank Darabont Because director Frank Darabont had crafted what many consider to be the definitive Stephen King movie with The Shawshank Redemption (more on that film later) some feared he was revisiting overly familiar territory when he returned to adapt another of King's prison dramas, The Green Mile. Like Shawshank, The Green Mile is a...
Director: Rob Reiner Frank Darabont isn't the only director with a real knack for bringing Stephen King tales to life on screen. Before Misery, Rob Reiner also directed this coming-of-age tale based on King's novella "The Body", collected in the 1982 book Different Seasons. Stand By Mefeatured narration by Richard Dreyfuss and a "who's who?" lineup...
Director: Andy Muschietti Fittingly, one of King's most iconic novels is also one of his most successful adaptations, shattering box office records. But more than just being a moneymaker, IT is a very effective horror film that pits a group of intrepid middle schoolers against the terrifying, inhuman killer lurking beneath the streets of an idyllic...
Director: Mike Flanagan Mike Flanagan's Doctor Sleep is a modern horror miracle. Adapting King's sequel novel to The Shining, about a grown-up Danny Torrence (Ewan McGregor), Flanagan had to merge the world of King's prose and Kubrick's cinematic vision. Since Kubrick's The Shining took many liberties with King's book -- so much so that King himsel...
Director: Brian De Palma "If you've got a taste for terror... invite Carrie to the prom!" That was the Grindhouse-worthy tagline for Carrie, and it said all that needed to be said about this teen horror drama. Carrie was King's big break as a writer in 1974, and a mere two years later, it also became fodder for one of the best films based on his wo...
Director: Rob Reiner Miseryoperates on a very simple formula. It features only two main characters who spend most of the film locked away in a remote cabin in winter. But both the 1987 novel and Rob Reiner's 1990 adaptation really made the most of this formula. As with so many of King's stories, Misery features a troubled writer as the lead protago...
Oct 6, 2023 · A list of 46 Stephen King adaptations, from worst to best, based on the quality of the source material and the filmmaking. Find out which King movies are worth watching and which ones to avoid.
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Jun 5, 2023 · A comprehensive list of 51 movies based on King's novels and short stories, from the worst to the best. Find out which adaptations are the most faithful, the most successful, and the most memorable.
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Sep 7, 2017 · A comprehensive list of films and miniseries based on Stephen King's novels and short stories, from the worst to the best. Find out which adaptations are faithful, scary, or just plain bad, and see if King has a cameo in any of them.
