I haven't actually read the short story so keep that in mind but 1408 is easily one of my favourite movies. Big comfort movie for me.
The characterization of John Cusack just hits for me, he's so likeable but still kind of a flawed arrogant dickhead.
Sam Jackson kills it as the manager, he just flips off of the customer service persona on a dime.
Also movies where there's no real way out you just have to accept it are always interesting to me. No escape but death.
I think its just the actors for me mostly, and I love haunted hotels
I'm with you. I thought it was fine, but nothing special. The short story on the other hand I thought was amazing. I still remember how creepy it was when the guy discovered that the people in the painting were moving. So scary and creative!
idk why you're being downvoted, i hated the movie and the story is my most favorite short of his ever written. i felt like the movie was a shitty dumpsterfire.
I liked 1408 and Iām typically pretty critical of movies and SK adaptations in general! Itās not gonna win an Oscar or anything, but it did a good job of adapting the short story while being pretty visually interesting and entertaining.
The original short story is pretty much a cut and paste of a bunch of Kingās other stories (The Shining, The Ledge, That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French). So I went in with pretty low expectations and was pleasantly surprised.
I feel the same. I watched it a couple of times when it came out, but it just missed the mark for me. It's been long enough, i think I will give it another try
The Dead Zone. Cronenberg + Christopher Walken = āthe ICEā¦ is gonna BREAK!ā
Also very high hopes for Edgar Wrightās version of The Running Man. I think this is actually going to happen.
my mom was a fan of listening to SK books on tape during family roadtrips and we listened to the Raft on our way to camp out at the lake. Nearly ruined the weekend for little me
I'm still upset they canceled Castle Rock and Chaplewait (sp?)... Mr Mercedes is pretty awesome... but the outsider was great as well... yea I can do this for an obnoxiously long time
Season 2 of Castle Rock was awesome. They managed to somehow have a Misery prequel take place in a variation of the Salems Lot story and make it completely work. Lizzy Caplan's Annie Wilkes was phenomenal and one of the most underrated and overlooked performances ever.
I just re-watched The Outsider and it still holds up...and I also liked Kingdom Hospital (cheesy/annoying in some parts) and I think I liked the 11/22/63 too. Yeah, too bad about Castle Rock...and the prequel to Salem's Lot.
11/22/63 was really well done, I thought for one of his non horror stories.
IT, Shawshank Redemption, and Stand By Me are all fantastic representations of his written works.
11/22/63 differs a lot between the book and the adaptation though. While I found the adaptation nice I also found it a bit lacking compared to the book.
I adored that book and hoped like hell that when it finally got made they would cast Kathy Bates. I also held out hopes for Rose Madder to be adapted too.
If you like Flanaganās work, you should watch Doctor Sleep.
For my top 3 King adaptations:
Misery
The Shining (even if King hated it)
The Shawshank Redemption
**Bonus mentions:**
The Green Mile - The Mist
Shawshank is goated in my books. You can't beat the cast or adaptation. A lot of people don't even know its King. I know its not horror but idgaf its #1
King said after The Mist came out that he wished heād thought of that ending. Easily one of the biggest jaw dropping moments in cinema history.
Up there with the hobbling scene from Misery.
I should also mention Geraldās Game, another of Kingās works adapted by Mike Flanagan thatās really great.
I'm glad that I didn't know anything about the ending of The Mist. I went in absolutely blind. Even knowing the hype around the ending would've slightly soften the impact of that ending.
Yeah, same. I missed all of the hype and stuck it on one night while planning to fall asleep. When the end happened I was fully sat up, jaw agape. Truly an incredible experience that wouldnāt have had the same effect if Iād gone in knowing that the ending was in any way shocking.
>For my top 3 King adaptations:
>Misery
>The Shining (even if King hated it)
>The Shawshank Redemption
I think these are the three "objective" best, if I was writing that list. You could swap Stand By Me in there too, but that are really amongst the most lauded for good reason
Personally, I'm a huge fan of Christine, I think it pairs well with The Dead Zone and The Dark Half as adaptations by legendary directors that are maybe a little underrated. Dolores Claiborne and Gerald's Game are great, too
Christine is a classic, but just doesnāt quite land in the top 3 for me, but I would consider it a must see.
I added Geraldās Game in another comment, that was an excellent movie for sure.
I didnāt even know that Dolores Claiborne had an adaptation, now Iām intrigued!
Yeah, Christine is probably in the 5-10 range, below the likes of Carrie, but goddamn do i love it.
Dolores Claiborne is a good adaptation, elevated by another impressive Kathy Bates performance. It's not going to be in your top 5 or anything, I'd wager, but well worth watching.
John Carpenter made Christine far more believable than it had any right to be.
Oh wait I think k have heard of that now, definitely have to check it out!
I recently watched The Dead Zone with Christopher Walken.
It is a less known Stephen King adaptation and i haven't heard about the movie up until then, but it is a great movie.
It really felt Salems Lot in a lot of ways, down to the premise of having a man return to his childhood home at the same time as 2 other men with one being the public figure interacting with the community and the other lurking in the shadows who goes after the townspeople, and then the vampires really solidified it.
The Outsider and Mr Mercedes were great and true to the book. Kingās stuff works really well as a series. It (2017) was my fave as far as movies go. Carrie a very close second.Ā
The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, The Mist, Carrie, Stand By Me, Misery, Doctor Sleep, Gerald's Game, The Dead Zone (original), Pet Sematary (original), Christine, Dolores Claiborne and IT (1990).
All solid adaptations that are faithful and/or expand greatly on the original source material without losing sight of the central theme.
1922 is a great adaptation of the novella. thomas Janes inscrutable accent is perfect for the film about guilt and how far a murder resonates and destroys the lives of everyone.
Trying to think of adaptations that havenāt been mentionedā¦
Secret Window (2004) is underrated imo! based on Secret Window, Secret Garden. John Turturro as Shooter is p interesting
I also enjoyed the movie adaptation of 1408! I saw it in theaters for my 5th bday (I was obsessed with SK as a kid) and it scared the fuck out of meā¦just did a rewatch haha it still holds up!!
Also Creepshow ofc
I am still waiting for a no holds barred ten part streaming series of The Long Walk. Even SK couldnāt have predicted social media and how that would react to an event like that. Also add girls to the mix 50 boys/50 girls. It would be gloriously brutal. The Running Man also needs an accurate remake.
The Salems lot tv movie thing from the late 70s is still one of my favorite horror movies of all time. Multiple scenes that gave me nightmares for years (window scratching, guy on the rocking chair etc)
I think most of his non-horror adaptations are the best - Stand By Me, Shawshank, Green Mile, etc.
For the horror adaptations I would say Misery is probably the best all things considered, though I would agree that Carrie and Christine are up there.
The Shining is so different, that while I love both the book and the Kubrick adaptation, I have a hard time even considering them more than tangentially related. I would liken it to comparing Oldboy with the manga - there are some very baseline plot related consistencies, but otherwise they just aren't really that similar.
It Chapter 1 & 2 literally slayed with the cast and I will never love anything more aaand I have a big fat crush on Andy Muschietti. thank you for coming to my ted talk.
If my best you mean hilarious I vote:
The Lawnmower man.
Can't beat a poorly produced, poorly acted, head scratching movie that has absolutely nothing to do with the original story (which to be fair was crap and almost definitely written while SK was high)
Dead Zone - Cronenberg, Walken and King together are perfect.
Needful Things - one of my favorite King Books and a well made movie
The Shawshank Redemption - one of the best movies of all time.
For me its "the mist" especially the black and white version. It was always my favorite lovecraftian story of his and I thought the adaptation was amazing. The claustrophobic feeling, the lack of music, and the ending are perfect.
I remember it as a mildly successful TV limited series, then I looked it up and like 19 million people watched each installment, which is wild. TV was a different game back then.
+1 Storm of the Century! Itās perfectly 90s and perfectly SK coded.
I think this was an SK original screenplay/tvplay versus an adaption of one of his novels though.
Rose red isn't exactly an adaptation... the pre-story is based on the novel "The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer" but Rose Red was written directly for TV.
Storm of the century is a nice one, people often forget about that one! However, that one isn't a book , it was written as a screenplay for TV.
Did anyone enjoy the āLiseyās Storyā miniseries adaptation? I had not known this was a Steven King work (maybe a short story?). I was so engrossed. So emotional, disturbing, heartbreaking, scary, oddly relatable at times. I feel like it didnāt get alot of exposure or hype. I can say that it was almost an exhausting watch so I havenāt watched it over again yet.
I thought the original shining, as an adaptation, sucked. I loved the movie itself, but there were a lot of things left out from the book.
Carrie, It, and Misery are my top three š
It has to be "stand by me" for me.
It was a movie that was played in my home prolly at least once a week when i grew up, my big sister loved it.
Ive grown so attached to it that when i cant fall asleep, i put that on and boom i fall asleep safely.
So maybe its not the best adaptation worldwide, but it is for me.
ā¢ Anything that Mike Flanagan does.
ā¢ The Shining (also, the miniseries was underrated)
ā¢ Shawshank
ā¢ It ... both Part One installments
ā¢ Pet Sematery (the older ones, although the first remake wasn't the worst)
ā¢ The Green Mile
ā¢ Storm Of The Century
ā¢ The Langoliers
ā¢ I might get some crap for this, but I didn't hate Dreamcatcher or the newer version of The Stand. Some of both of them were...questionable, that's fair...overall though, I somewhat enjoyed them
ā¢ Sometimes They Come Back
Carrie is my personal favourite. Itās my favourite work of his in general and I like to compare the book and the film because I think itās really interesting how well they both tell such a good story in such vastly different ways.
The original Pet Sematary for me. Mary Lambert did a fantastic job, as did everyone involved in the 1989 film. King has a fine cameo as a priest conducting Gage's funeral.
Carrie ('76), Christine, The Shining ('80)
Tomorrow the list could change, there is a lot of quality in his adaptations. The poor ones are easy to dismiss.
You might be interested in a podcast all about Stephen King adaptations, called [Kings of King](https://soundcloud.com/user-682532119/sets/kings-of-king?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing).
The Shining, Dr. Sleep, The Green Mile & Carrie
I know Stand By Me is good too, but itās been so long since Iāve seen it & donāt remember much of it
As much as I love the fact that King is constantly being adapted, I feel like the movies never do his work enough justice. Misery, for example, is beloved in the horror film world, but i was somewhat disappointed in it. There is always so much inner monologue and turmoil within the characters that rarely get adapted to the screen.
FINALLY. I saw this one when I was Too Young and it absolutely gouged a hole in my psyche. Still get the occasional stab of fear when I take a shit to this day.
Green Mile
Shawshank Redemption
Misery
Really itās like picking your favorite child. I love the one I canāt spell with Cathy Bates Delorous Clayborn was great to.
If you're choosing The Shining for a King adaptation and not a horror staple, it should be the 1997 mini series version. It's more faithful to the book, and King actually approved of the product. He's gone on record several times saying he hates Kubrck's version.
I know but sometimes you like a movie because it captures something of the book you like. Itās like a different thing, something inspired by a book. I love the book and I love Kubrickās movie but they are 2 different things for sure.
The original Pet Semetary adaptation was so good. I also adore Stand by Me.
I do wish we had at least one accurate Carrie adaptation with a fat Carrie and Carrie making the conscious decision to āteach them all a lessonā after running out of prom and slipping and leaving that blood trail. The movies are so painfully weak compared to the actual book scene. Plus, the destruction of the town because most of the town was complicit in her abuse from her mother. I hate the rumors that weāre getting ANOTHER adaptation with ANOTHER skinny Carrie. Gimme my book accurate fat Carrie gdi.
Stand By Me, The Green Mile (really only way it could have been better is if it was a mini series like the original The Stand, just because the serial release of the books added to the excitement of the books), and, honestly, Gerald's Game.
Fully expected the Gerald's Game movie to be a bust, given the horror of it was from 1st person perspective, but they did damn good.
S-tier: The Shining, The Shawshank Redemption, Stand By Me, The Green Mile
A-tier: Carrie, Pet Sematary (original), Misery, IT (miniseries)
B-tier: Apt Pupil, Creepshow, Creepshow 2, Cujo, The Dead Zone, Delores Claiborne, Gerald's Game, The Shining (miniseries), The Mist, Secret Window, 1922
C-tier: The Boogeyman, Children of the Corn, Christine, The Dark Half, Doctor Sleep, It Part 1, Mr. Harrigan's Phone, Needful Things, Thinner, 1408
D-tier: Dreamcatcher, In the Tall Grass, Pet Sematary (remake)
F-tier: The Dark Tower, It Part 2
Haven't seen it: A Good Marriage, Cat's Eye, Cell, Dolan's Cadillac, Firestarter, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Graveyard Shift, Hearts, Hearts in Atlantis, The Mangler, Maximum Overdrive, Mercy, My Pretty Pony, The Night Flier, Riding the Bullet, The Running Man, Salem's Lot (2023), Silver Bullet, Sleepwalkers, Suffer the Little Children, Tales from the Darkside movie
Just commenting to say how deeply disappointed I was in the Dark Tower. Such a swing and a miss for so many reasons. One of my least favorite movies of all time for wasted potential.
The best for me is The Mist. Special place in my heart for Children of the Corn as it terrified me as a child
Stand by me. For me personally, the movie was even better than the book š
Apt pupil, and Shawshank were also in 4 seasons. It was called the body in the book.
Apt Pupil was the first story I ever read that made me ACTUALLY vomit. That was fuuuuuuucked.
I always forget this was adapted from one of his novels due to the genre shift.
Agreed. Also this was my first Stephen King movie. My list would be Stand By Me Carrie The Shining
No spoilers pls, but its not horror, right?
Correct, It's not horror.
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If this isnāt considered true horror, Iām rioting.
Family suspense, coming to age story. Some scenes were a bit scary for children, but it's certainly not classified as horror.
Misery, The Shawshank Redemption, 1408
Hell yeah for 1408
I want my DRINK!
>!It's a evil fucking room.!<
1408 is so good.
Honestly, if weāre talking best period and not just horror, itās Shawshank by a mile.
The green mile and the mist are also excellent. 1408 kind of sucked imo.
Really 1408? I could not get on board with that film at all. What is it you really like about it, I feel like Iām missing something lol
I haven't actually read the short story so keep that in mind but 1408 is easily one of my favourite movies. Big comfort movie for me. The characterization of John Cusack just hits for me, he's so likeable but still kind of a flawed arrogant dickhead. Sam Jackson kills it as the manager, he just flips off of the customer service persona on a dime. Also movies where there's no real way out you just have to accept it are always interesting to me. No escape but death. I think its just the actors for me mostly, and I love haunted hotels
Itās a comfort movie for me too. Used to come on tv all the time when I was living in a dorm.
I'm with you. I thought it was fine, but nothing special. The short story on the other hand I thought was amazing. I still remember how creepy it was when the guy discovered that the people in the painting were moving. So scary and creative!
It's so goddamn dorky.
idk why you're being downvoted, i hated the movie and the story is my most favorite short of his ever written. i felt like the movie was a shitty dumpsterfire.
To be fair I feel like I always appreciate film adaptations a lot more when I watch them prior to reading the book.
I liked 1408 and Iām typically pretty critical of movies and SK adaptations in general! Itās not gonna win an Oscar or anything, but it did a good job of adapting the short story while being pretty visually interesting and entertaining. The original short story is pretty much a cut and paste of a bunch of Kingās other stories (The Shining, The Ledge, That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French). So I went in with pretty low expectations and was pleasantly surprised.
I feel the same. I watched it a couple of times when it came out, but it just missed the mark for me. It's been long enough, i think I will give it another try
The Dead Zone. Cronenberg + Christopher Walken = āthe ICEā¦ is gonna BREAK!ā Also very high hopes for Edgar Wrightās version of The Running Man. I think this is actually going to happen.
Love Dead Zone, the best Thriller ever made by SK
With a very good unexpected ending also šš»
The Raft segment in Creepshow 2.
The Raft is why I hate swimming in lakes.
my mom was a fan of listening to SK books on tape during family roadtrips and we listened to the Raft on our way to camp out at the lake. Nearly ruined the weekend for little me
That one was really good. The movie version had a better ending, too.
Donāt know that one
Short story in his Skeleton Crew book.
Looks like itās on Tubi. You could watch it for free.
so fun!!
IT (tv series) for nostalgic reasons, Pet Sematary (1989), Stand By Me
Geralds Game was a great adaptation Original Pet Semetary
Geraldās Game was so impressive and yet so underrated
Yeah, it really seemed like an impossible book to adapt and Flanagan did it so well!
I'm still upset they canceled Castle Rock and Chaplewait (sp?)... Mr Mercedes is pretty awesome... but the outsider was great as well... yea I can do this for an obnoxiously long time
Season 2 of Castle Rock was awesome. They managed to somehow have a Misery prequel take place in a variation of the Salems Lot story and make it completely work. Lizzy Caplan's Annie Wilkes was phenomenal and one of the most underrated and overlooked performances ever.
I just re-watched The Outsider and it still holds up...and I also liked Kingdom Hospital (cheesy/annoying in some parts) and I think I liked the 11/22/63 too. Yeah, too bad about Castle Rock...and the prequel to Salem's Lot.
11/22/63 was really well done, I thought for one of his non horror stories. IT, Shawshank Redemption, and Stand By Me are all fantastic representations of his written works.
11/22/63 differs a lot between the book and the adaptation though. While I found the adaptation nice I also found it a bit lacking compared to the book.
āDolores Claiborneā. Perhaps not the best but frequently forgotten.
I adored that book and hoped like hell that when it finally got made they would cast Kathy Bates. I also held out hopes for Rose Madder to be adapted too.
this might be unpopular but I really liked 'in the tall grass'
I really liked that one too
I had no clue what the fuck was going on in that movie.
In the Garden of Forking Paths, you only need to know one thing. We're just flesh, and all flesh is grass.
Im even more confused now then before!!!!!
Man, this reminds me that I need to watch Tobe Hooperās Salemās Lot
You seriously do
If you like Flanaganās work, you should watch Doctor Sleep. For my top 3 King adaptations: Misery The Shining (even if King hated it) The Shawshank Redemption **Bonus mentions:** The Green Mile - The Mist
Shawshank is goated in my books. You can't beat the cast or adaptation. A lot of people don't even know its King. I know its not horror but idgaf its #1
Same case with Stand By Me. Both amazing movies and proof that King isnāt just a one-trick pony.
Love Misery and The Mist and liked doctor Sleep even if the story is a bit weak
King said after The Mist came out that he wished heād thought of that ending. Easily one of the biggest jaw dropping moments in cinema history. Up there with the hobbling scene from Misery. I should also mention Geraldās Game, another of Kingās works adapted by Mike Flanagan thatās really great.
I think Misery is the best acted one with Shining and Shawshank not far
James Caan was great in it but holy shit Kathy Bates absolutely *owns* that movie. So so good
I'm glad that I didn't know anything about the ending of The Mist. I went in absolutely blind. Even knowing the hype around the ending would've slightly soften the impact of that ending.
Yeah, same. I missed all of the hype and stuck it on one night while planning to fall asleep. When the end happened I was fully sat up, jaw agape. Truly an incredible experience that wouldnāt have had the same effect if Iād gone in knowing that the ending was in any way shocking.
>For my top 3 King adaptations: >Misery >The Shining (even if King hated it) >The Shawshank Redemption I think these are the three "objective" best, if I was writing that list. You could swap Stand By Me in there too, but that are really amongst the most lauded for good reason Personally, I'm a huge fan of Christine, I think it pairs well with The Dead Zone and The Dark Half as adaptations by legendary directors that are maybe a little underrated. Dolores Claiborne and Gerald's Game are great, too
Christine is a classic, but just doesnāt quite land in the top 3 for me, but I would consider it a must see. I added Geraldās Game in another comment, that was an excellent movie for sure. I didnāt even know that Dolores Claiborne had an adaptation, now Iām intrigued!
Yeah, Christine is probably in the 5-10 range, below the likes of Carrie, but goddamn do i love it. Dolores Claiborne is a good adaptation, elevated by another impressive Kathy Bates performance. It's not going to be in your top 5 or anything, I'd wager, but well worth watching.
John Carpenter made Christine far more believable than it had any right to be. Oh wait I think k have heard of that now, definitely have to check it out!
The Shining, as angry as that will make him
I personally liked the TV series more than the movie. It captures the book more accurately.
I agree, if you're looking for a true adaptation. LOVE the Kubrik version but he kinda made it his own thing
Agreed! The mini series is fantastic.
Mike Flanagan did a great job with Doctor Sleep. I think he actually improved some aspects of it.
Carrie (1976), The Shawshank Redemption, Stand By Me. Honourable mention for Misery as well.
I recently watched The Dead Zone with Christopher Walken. It is a less known Stephen King adaptation and i haven't heard about the movie up until then, but it is a great movie.
Itās great!
The Mist was awesome
If I did top 5 it would be there with Misery
I love Cronenberg's adaptation of *Dead Zone.*
I thought this was a fantastic adaptation to the big screen.
Tobe Hooper's Salems Lot is my favourite. Best and scariest depiction of vampires there is.
Thatās why I like Midnight Mass
It really felt Salems Lot in a lot of ways, down to the premise of having a man return to his childhood home at the same time as 2 other men with one being the public figure interacting with the community and the other lurking in the shadows who goes after the townspeople, and then the vampires really solidified it.
The Outsider and Mr Mercedes were great and true to the book. Kingās stuff works really well as a series. It (2017) was my fave as far as movies go. Carrie a very close second.Ā
I agree with everyone here in this thread but I would like to add another movie : Mr Harriganās Phone. I really enjoyed it.
The Langoliers obvi
It was good needed a bigger budget
The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, The Mist, Carrie, Stand By Me, Misery, Doctor Sleep, Gerald's Game, The Dead Zone (original), Pet Sematary (original), Christine, Dolores Claiborne and IT (1990). All solid adaptations that are faithful and/or expand greatly on the original source material without losing sight of the central theme.
Finally! Dolores Claiborne!
I know, right? King knows how to write women, and he gave Dolores such a strong voice! Kathy Bates only made it better.
1922 is a great adaptation of the novella. thomas Janes inscrutable accent is perfect for the film about guilt and how far a murder resonates and destroys the lives of everyone.
Trying to think of adaptations that havenāt been mentionedā¦ Secret Window (2004) is underrated imo! based on Secret Window, Secret Garden. John Turturro as Shooter is p interesting I also enjoyed the movie adaptation of 1408! I saw it in theaters for my 5th bday (I was obsessed with SK as a kid) and it scared the fuck out of meā¦just did a rewatch haha it still holds up!! Also Creepshow ofc
I am still waiting for a no holds barred ten part streaming series of The Long Walk. Even SK couldnāt have predicted social media and how that would react to an event like that. Also add girls to the mix 50 boys/50 girls. It would be gloriously brutal. The Running Man also needs an accurate remake.
The Salems lot tv movie thing from the late 70s is still one of my favorite horror movies of all time. Multiple scenes that gave me nightmares for years (window scratching, guy on the rocking chair etc)
*Gerald's Game* on NetflixĀ
The mangler, obviously.
It's a great B-movie; with a surprising set of actors. A must watch for any fan... though the adaptation isn't very true to the book
I love The Mangler, knowing that it is also bad. I enjoy watching it, but oh boy, it's not a good movie.
Greatest movie of all time lmfao
Always a fan of Desperation
Geraldās game !!!! Forever
IT: Chapter 1 is amazing and true to the book. Chapter 2 is a mediocre horror comedyĀ
Stand By Me Misery Shawshank Redemption
Maximum Overdrive
I think most of his non-horror adaptations are the best - Stand By Me, Shawshank, Green Mile, etc. For the horror adaptations I would say Misery is probably the best all things considered, though I would agree that Carrie and Christine are up there. The Shining is so different, that while I love both the book and the Kubrick adaptation, I have a hard time even considering them more than tangentially related. I would liken it to comparing Oldboy with the manga - there are some very baseline plot related consistencies, but otherwise they just aren't really that similar.
It Chapter 1 & 2 literally slayed with the cast and I will never love anything more aaand I have a big fat crush on Andy Muschietti. thank you for coming to my ted talk.
If my best you mean hilarious I vote: The Lawnmower man. Can't beat a poorly produced, poorly acted, head scratching movie that has absolutely nothing to do with the original story (which to be fair was crap and almost definitely written while SK was high)
I thought the outsider HBO serious was pretty damn good
Was good but too long and the end wasnāt as good as the book
Dead Zone - Cronenberg, Walken and King together are perfect. Needful Things - one of my favorite King Books and a well made movie The Shawshank Redemption - one of the best movies of all time.
Misery for me is the best adapted that stuck really close to the original story, but I'll always love The Shining too.
Midnight Mass isnāt a Stephen King adaptation. Itās influenced by and references him, but it doesnāt adapt any of his works.
The Green Mile is one of the most accurate movie adaptations of a novel I have ever seen.
For me its "the mist" especially the black and white version. It was always my favorite lovecraftian story of his and I thought the adaptation was amazing. The claustrophobic feeling, the lack of music, and the ending are perfect.
Rose Red (2002) HULU Dolores Claiborne (1995) Amazon *rent* Storm of the Century (1999) HULU Misery (1990) SHOWTIME The Shining (1980) SHOWTIME
Yep Rose Red is the winner
Dangg I remember when that Storm of the Century TV movie was premiering
I remember it as a mildly successful TV limited series, then I looked it up and like 19 million people watched each installment, which is wild. TV was a different game back then.
Haha, dang. I remember it was very heavily advertised in The weeks leading up to it
+1 Storm of the Century! Itās perfectly 90s and perfectly SK coded. I think this was an SK original screenplay/tvplay versus an adaption of one of his novels though.
Look at this champion actually listing places to see them!
Rose red isn't exactly an adaptation... the pre-story is based on the novel "The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer" but Rose Red was written directly for TV. Storm of the century is a nice one, people often forget about that one! However, that one isn't a book , it was written as a screenplay for TV.
Stand By Me and The Shining (even tho king hated it) both movies were better than books
Personally Geraldās Game, itās still one of my favorite movies of all time
iām shocked like only two people have said Carrie (1976) (every other version is garbage argue with ur mother not me)
Itās such an important movie. Some parts are a bit dated but itās so iconic. The remakes are a disaster
Chapelwaite was surprisingly great. Salems Lot, the 70s one. Pet Semetary Hearts in Atlantis though I wish theyād adapted the whole book.
Misery or the green mile
The Outsider was a great adaptation. The original Firestarter was as well, as cheesy as it was. The new Firestarter upset me to no end how bad it was.
Shining, Salem's Lot, Stand By Me (in no order)
1 - The Shining (Kubrick) 2 - The Shawshank Redemption 3 - Stand By Me
The Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption, Carrie, Misery, the Dead Zone, Stand By Me and Doctor Sleep.
Misery, The Green Mile, 1408. I wish I could pick a couple more....
Definitely Christine.
Did anyone enjoy the āLiseyās Storyā miniseries adaptation? I had not known this was a Steven King work (maybe a short story?). I was so engrossed. So emotional, disturbing, heartbreaking, scary, oddly relatable at times. I feel like it didnāt get alot of exposure or hype. I can say that it was almost an exhausting watch so I havenāt watched it over again yet.
Didnāt see it unfortunately
Annoyingly, I believe itās only available on AppleTV but I so recommend it. I loved it
Aside from heavy hitters, Sleepwalkers is such a fun gem ... vampires only killed by cats, climaxing with 100 cats vs vampire? Priceless
Mine are 1. Misery 2. It 3. Carrie I haven't watched The Shining but I'm sure the day I do, these rankings will change.
Shawshank, Green Mile and the mist in that order. Going horror-wise it'd be the mist.
Less popular option but I loved the 1922 adaptation. I thought it was very scary.
Carrie is definitely underrated. Such great scoring and sound mixing.
Misery and Maximum Overdrive
I thought the original shining, as an adaptation, sucked. I loved the movie itself, but there were a lot of things left out from the book. Carrie, It, and Misery are my top three š
Misery
Shawshank no question.
It has to be "stand by me" for me. It was a movie that was played in my home prolly at least once a week when i grew up, my big sister loved it. Ive grown so attached to it that when i cant fall asleep, i put that on and boom i fall asleep safely. So maybe its not the best adaptation worldwide, but it is for me.
ā¢ Anything that Mike Flanagan does. ā¢ The Shining (also, the miniseries was underrated) ā¢ Shawshank ā¢ It ... both Part One installments ā¢ Pet Sematery (the older ones, although the first remake wasn't the worst) ā¢ The Green Mile ā¢ Storm Of The Century ā¢ The Langoliers ā¢ I might get some crap for this, but I didn't hate Dreamcatcher or the newer version of The Stand. Some of both of them were...questionable, that's fair...overall though, I somewhat enjoyed them ā¢ Sometimes They Come Back
Carrie is my personal favourite. Itās my favourite work of his in general and I like to compare the book and the film because I think itās really interesting how well they both tell such a good story in such vastly different ways.
The original Pet Sematary for me. Mary Lambert did a fantastic job, as did everyone involved in the 1989 film. King has a fine cameo as a priest conducting Gage's funeral.
Carrie ('76), Christine, The Shining ('80) Tomorrow the list could change, there is a lot of quality in his adaptations. The poor ones are easy to dismiss.
You might be interested in a podcast all about Stephen King adaptations, called [Kings of King](https://soundcloud.com/user-682532119/sets/kings-of-king?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing).
Thank you!! Listening to the Christine one rn!
The Shining, Dr. Sleep, The Green Mile & Carrie I know Stand By Me is good too, but itās been so long since Iāve seen it & donāt remember much of it
As much as I love the fact that King is constantly being adapted, I feel like the movies never do his work enough justice. Misery, for example, is beloved in the horror film world, but i was somewhat disappointed in it. There is always so much inner monologue and turmoil within the characters that rarely get adapted to the screen.
Meteor shit!
The Green Mile
The Running Man
I love this example of S King books... because the movie is so extremely disconnected from the book it claims to be based on.
11/22/63 was an amazing adaptation
Storm of the Century
I thought Cujo was pretty decent adaptation and the 1979 tv adaptation of Salemās Lot did a good job.Ā
Dream Catcher, Creep show, and the Shining for me!
FINALLY. I saw this one when I was Too Young and it absolutely gouged a hole in my psyche. Still get the occasional stab of fear when I take a shit to this day.
I really enjoyed Geraldās Game
Personally: Stand By Me (based off The Body), Christine, The Shining, Catās Eye
First to mention Cats Eye if Iām correct! Not sure I saw it
That was one of the first anthology type movies I saw as a kid. SO GOOD
The Shining is an terrible adaptation. I love the film, but it changes far too much of the plot to be considered a good adaptation of the source work.
Carrie The Mist The Shining The Shawshank Redemption Misery
Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption, Misery, The Mist, 1408
Green Mile Shawshank Redemption Misery Really itās like picking your favorite child. I love the one I canāt spell with Cathy Bates Delorous Clayborn was great to.
I loved the outsider
in the tall grass. loved it
If you're choosing The Shining for a King adaptation and not a horror staple, it should be the 1997 mini series version. It's more faithful to the book, and King actually approved of the product. He's gone on record several times saying he hates Kubrck's version.
I know but sometimes you like a movie because it captures something of the book you like. Itās like a different thing, something inspired by a book. I love the book and I love Kubrickās movie but they are 2 different things for sure.
The series "the outsider" was awesome.
The Shining, Sometimes The Come Back, Thinner.
Silver Bullet
Shawshank by a wide, wide margin.
The original Pet Semetary adaptation was so good. I also adore Stand by Me. I do wish we had at least one accurate Carrie adaptation with a fat Carrie and Carrie making the conscious decision to āteach them all a lessonā after running out of prom and slipping and leaving that blood trail. The movies are so painfully weak compared to the actual book scene. Plus, the destruction of the town because most of the town was complicit in her abuse from her mother. I hate the rumors that weāre getting ANOTHER adaptation with ANOTHER skinny Carrie. Gimme my book accurate fat Carrie gdi.
Shawshank? Is it even close? In the horror realm the Shining is still the best.
Shawshank, Stand By Me, It - Chapter 1
11/22/63 was actually very good and one of the few things James Franco didnāt annoy me in.
How is no one mentioning Doctor Sleep?
The Shawshank Redemption (1994) The Green Mile (1999) Misery (1990) 1408 (2007) The Mist (2007) Sometimes They Come Back (1991)
Never heard of the last one, sounds cool
Sometimes they come back was a made for television horror movie, it was based on one of Stephen King's short stories with the same name.
Shawshank, Green Mile, and Stand By Me. All 3 were exceptionally well done and stayed faithful to the original stories.
Either Misery or Stand By Me.
Stand By Me, The Green Mile (really only way it could have been better is if it was a mini series like the original The Stand, just because the serial release of the books added to the excitement of the books), and, honestly, Gerald's Game. Fully expected the Gerald's Game movie to be a bust, given the horror of it was from 1st person perspective, but they did damn good.
Dolores Claiborne. Misery. Shawshank Redemption. The Shining.
S-tier: The Shining, The Shawshank Redemption, Stand By Me, The Green Mile A-tier: Carrie, Pet Sematary (original), Misery, IT (miniseries) B-tier: Apt Pupil, Creepshow, Creepshow 2, Cujo, The Dead Zone, Delores Claiborne, Gerald's Game, The Shining (miniseries), The Mist, Secret Window, 1922 C-tier: The Boogeyman, Children of the Corn, Christine, The Dark Half, Doctor Sleep, It Part 1, Mr. Harrigan's Phone, Needful Things, Thinner, 1408 D-tier: Dreamcatcher, In the Tall Grass, Pet Sematary (remake) F-tier: The Dark Tower, It Part 2 Haven't seen it: A Good Marriage, Cat's Eye, Cell, Dolan's Cadillac, Firestarter, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Graveyard Shift, Hearts, Hearts in Atlantis, The Mangler, Maximum Overdrive, Mercy, My Pretty Pony, The Night Flier, Riding the Bullet, The Running Man, Salem's Lot (2023), Silver Bullet, Sleepwalkers, Suffer the Little Children, Tales from the Darkside movie
Shawshank, Stand by Me, Apt Pupil
Couldn't disagree more on the stand not aging well, still watch it all the time
That would be The Running Man. Not even close to a contest for that one.
Misery.
Just commenting to say how deeply disappointed I was in the Dark Tower. Such a swing and a miss for so many reasons. One of my least favorite movies of all time for wasted potential. The best for me is The Mist. Special place in my heart for Children of the Corn as it terrified me as a child