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Jun 5, 2023 · 46 The Lawnmower Man (1992) Stream now on Vudu & Tubi. The Lawnmower Man remains one of the most hated King movies among fans of the author's books. It has nothing in common with King’s original short story, and King himself successfully sued the studio to remove his name from the movie (via AFI).
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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.
Oct 4, 2024 · It’s too absurd to take seriously, but if you get on this film’s bonkers wavelength, it’s undeniably amusing. 37. Sleepwalkers (1992) Stephen King’s first original screenplay ...
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Hey, it’s the most-played movie on TBS for a reason. Frank Darabont’s sensitive prison picture – starring Morgan Freeman as wise, patient jailbird Red and Tim Robbins as even-more-patient convict Andy Dufresne – captures the observant, humanist aspects of King’s prose in a way few other films ever did, building powerful drama out of its heroes’ dec...
King’s novel, about a schoolteacher-turned-psychic who concludes he must assassinate a presidential candidate to save the world, came back into the zeitgeist last year when people started noticing that Donald Trump’s empty rhetoric sounded a lot like that of King’s fictional Greg Stillson. (Which, fair.) David Cronenberg’s wintry adaptation condens...
Based on King’s novella The Body, Rob Reiner’s period drama – in which an impulsive trip to see a dead body leads four friends on a fraught journey of self-discovery – has a knockout cast of young actors (among them River Phoenix, Wil Wheaton, Corey Feldman and Kiefer Sutherland), a melancholy soul and a 50s soundtrack that resonated with boomers. ...
King’s 1981 novel about a mother and son trapped in their car by a rabid St. Bernard was unique at the time for its total lack of supernatural elements: It’s just a gripping siege story with a relentless pace and a grim ending. Lewis Teague’s movie treats the source material as the pulp thriller that it is, establishing the threat with one hell of ...
Four years after Stand By Me, Rob Reiner returned to King territory for this cat-and-mouse thriller about an author (James Caan) held hostage after a car wreck by his number one fan (Kathy Bates), a psychotic nurse determined to torture him into writing the best book of his life. William Goldman’s screenplay is an actor’s showcase – and Bates won a...
Noted stylist Brian De Palma takes King’s first novel – written as a collage of diary entries, journalism and official reports – and turns it into a raw, painful study of a bullied teenager (Sissy Spacek, justly Oscar-nominated) whose telekinetic powers offer her the opportunity to wreak terrible vengeance on her tormentors. De Palma’s Hitchcockian...
Yes, Jack Nicholson goes way over the top as a frustrated author who moves his family to the empty, super-creepy Overlook Hotel and almost immediately loses his mind. But Stanley Kubrick makes the Overlook an environment where insanity is not only understandable but inevitable that family was doomed the moment the movie started. King was so disappo...
Frank Darabont, who’s adapted King off and on throughout his career, crafts a note-perfect movie out of King’s novella about a handful of people trapped in a supermarket by an inexplicable dimensional event that unleashes horrific monsters into their little Maine town. Everything’s dead-on, from Thomas Jane’s slightly bland hero to Marcia Gay Harde...
Horror auteur John Carpenter turns King’s best-seller about a haunted 1957 Plymouth Fury that possesses its nerdy new owner into a decent if unexceptional thriller… which, after three decades of increasingly shabby King adaptations, now feels pretty solid. Yeah, Keith Gordon, Alexandra Paul and John Stockwell seem a little white-bread when compared...
King’s version of Peyton Place – in which an unassuming Maine town is overrun by vampires – was weirdly perfect for a TV miniseries in the late 70s, its expansive cast offering plenty of roles for mid-range television actors like David Soul, Bonnie Bedelia, Geoffrey Lewis, Ed Flanders, Elisha Cook Jr. and Fred Willard (!) – but James Mason happily ...
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- The Shining. The Shining is arguably the best King adaptation - which is somewhat controversial since King famously hates Kubrick's "cold" take on his novel.
- Carrie. The success of 1976's Carrie helped cement King as the new "King of Horror." De Palma's stylish adaptation follows Sissy Spacek repressed, bullied teenager, who has burgeoning telekinetic powers.
- IT. Pennywise the Dancing Clown is one of King's most enduring horror creations, so it's little wonder 2017's IT: Chapter One was such a success. Bill Skarsgård's drooling Pennywise doesn't quite menace in the same way as Tim Curry's did in the 1990 miniseries, but he's effectively unsettling nonetheless.
- Salem's Lot. Tobe Hooper's Salem's Lot is a TV miniseries that was later edited into a theatrical movie for intentional audiences. The 1979 series is languid in parts to modern eyes, but it still has the eerie atmosphere that terrified young viewers back when it first aired.
Oct 6, 2023 · The movie isn’t even absurd enough to have fun with this lunatic premise, and King has zero skills as a director — visually, narratively, or in any other sense. King has called it the worst ...
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Sep 30, 2024 · Directed by: Lewis Teague. Dig Deeper 'Stephen King's Cat's Eye' Is Low-Key One Of King's Darkest And Most Terrifying Movies. Also ranks #1 on The 20 Best Scary Movies for 13-Year-Olds, Ranked By Parents. Also ranks #2 on Drew Barrymore Horror Movies That Prove She's An Underrated Scream Queen.
