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Since 1977 with the release of Carrie, Stephen King has made an impact in both the literary world, and the cinematic world. Some of the films based off his books have become some all time classics and some of the greatest films ever.
Top 10 Book To Movie AdaptationsSubscribe: http://goo.gl/Q2kKrDGood books can sometimes turn into fantastic movies. WatchMojo lists the ten best film adaptat...
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Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’ll be counting down our picks for the Top 20 Book to Movie Adaptations of the Century (So Far). For this list, we’ll be looking at our favorite movies that...
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- Quicksilver Highway
- The Night Flier
- Thinner
- Cell
- Graveyard Shift
- Riding The Bullet
- Big Driver
- The Mangler
- The Shining
- Needful Things
A made-for-TV movie from director Mick Garris (a frequent helmer of King adaptations) about a flamboyant weirdo named Quicksilver (Christopher Lloyd) who rambles around telling scary stories to anyone who will listen. A hitchhiking couple get King’s “Chattery Teeth,” about a man whose horrific encounter with a set of wind-up teeth is actually a ble...
Miguel Ferrer plays a sleazy reporter on the trail of the biggest scoop of his life: a serial killer who may or may not be a vampire who zips his private plane around between gory crime scenes. The New York Times was unkind, saying the film wasn’t “top-drawer or even second-drawer Stephen King.” It fits quite nicely into the third drawer, however.
A fat, sleazy lawyer begins to waste away after being cursed by a vengeful gypsy. An unpleasant movie about unpleasant people, with a li’l bit of racism to boot.
Cell phones make everyone who uses them turn into rabid killers, a concept that was much fresher in 2006, when King wrote the novel upon which it’s based, than in 2016, when the movie came out. Cell is a significantly less successful John Cusack/Samuel L. Jackson/King combo platter than 1408, which is a few notches further down this list.
A basement-dwelling monster massacres textile-mill workers who are unlucky enough to work you-know-which hours. When even Brad Dourif (as a drawling, eccentric exterminator) and a giant rat-bat special effect can’t save the movie … that’s pretty bleak.
Mick Garris directs Jonathan Jackson, David Arquette, and Barbara Hershey in this adaptation of King’s first e-book. It’s about a hitchhiker who takes a strange ride on the way to visit his dying mother… and you’d be much better off reading the story than watching the movie.
A rape revenge tale that stars Maria Bello as a mystery writer who suffers a horrible attack, then turns vigilante. It aired on the Lifetime channel, but had an unusually good supporting cast: Ann Dowd, Joan Jett, and Olympia Dukakis. But it also had a weirdly off-putting tone of black humor, which is frankly icky.
With Tobe Hooper, director of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Poltergeist (the latter under the watchful eye of Steven Spielberg), and actors Robert “Freddy Krueger” Englund and Ted Levine (Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs), this adaptation must’ve seemed like a slam dunk on paper. But this is a movie about a laundry press that’s been possessed...
Another one from Mick Garris, who is no Stanley Kubrick, starring Jake Weber, who is no Jack Nicholson. This six-hour TV remake was touted for being more faithful to King’s book; King, who famously disliked Kubrick’s version, wrote the teleplay this time around. But how do you compete with a pre-existing masterpiece? And why would you want to try?
Max von Sydow plays the proprietor of Castle Rock, Maine’s new antique shop, whose wondrous wares have special powers—but at what price? Even a great cast (besides von Sydow, it stars Ed Harris and Amanda Plummer) can’t save this one, whose biggest problem isn’t that it’s mean-spirited (which it totally is), but it’s repetitive, too.
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Jun 15, 2021 · Pet Sematary (2019)- Official Trailer- Paramount Pictures. Pet Sematary, one of King’s more shocking stories, deals with the issue of death and resurrection. The book was made into a movie in 1989 and, even though the author wrote the screenplay, the effort was thoroughly forgettable.
Stephen King Works turned into Movies or Mini-Series. List activity. 263 views. 2 this week. Create a new list. List your movie, TV & celebrity picks. 67 titles. Sort by List order. 1. The Shawshank Redemption. 1994 2h 22m R. 9.3 (2.9M) Rate. 82 Metascore.
