O/T...Stephen King.

You love all his movies? Most of the ones I’ve seen have been pish.

The Shining is the only one I thought was very good.

Oh, and Misery too.

Dolores Claiborne was pretty decent.

Oops, The Shawshank Redemption ... love that movie!

Stand by Me ... good film.

So maybe I was a bit unfair in the first paragraph!

Couldn’t make it through The Green Mile.

Here goes

1. The Shawshank Redemption
2. The Shining
3. Misery
4. Stand by Me
5. Dolores Claiborne
6. Carrie (first one)
7. Salem’s Lot (TV mini series)
8. The Dead Zone
9. Apt Pupil
10. The Mist

The definitive order of Best Stephen King Movies/Adaptions is as follows -

1. The Shining
2. Misery
3. The Mist
4. Creepshow
5. Secret Window
6. Creepshow II
7. Christine
8. Children of the Corn
9. Pet Sematary (Remake)
10. Thinner

The Dead Zone with Christopher Walken is free to stream for Amazon prime subscribers. (in the UK at least.)

Quite a decent flick.

Technically, Sleepwalkers wasn’t an adaptation, King wrote the screenplay without it being based on a book. Not a bad flick though and I liked a young Madchen Amick in it.

He hasn't written 100 novels, so that number is probably including remakes, sequels, and adaptations of short stories, and maybe some of those shitty sequles or that just use his name.

There are a lot of good ones, and a lot of bad ones, and a lot of stuff that's enjoyably bad. There's a great range variety of tone. It's seems so strange that The Shawshank Redemption and Maximum Overdrive come from the same source.

Everyone's top few are gonna be The Shining, Stand by Me, Shawshank, Misery maybe Carrie, maybe the Green Mile, maybe The Mist for some.

I'll just point out a few that I think are maybe a little underappreciated, like the semi recent direct-to-netflix movies 1922, which is a very slow burn, but an interesting character study of sorts with an evocative setting and good performance by Thomas Jane in his return to a Stephen King story, and Gerald's Game which is Mike Flanagan's film version of King's supposedly most unfilmable book. There's some awkwardness there, but I think it mostly works really well. It's a really intense setup and the cast is quite good all around but this is the Carla Gugino show, and she's excellent. Flanagan had to make some changes to make this make sense, and they almost all make a lot of sense, but the ending bothers some people. I like it, and I think it reinforces the themes that preceded it. It's a good piece of work.

Also, Flanagan's Doctor Sleep is stronger than it could be. The book is definitely not one of King's best, but Flanagan elevates it, and I think the ending that takes place inside of Kubrick's movie is earned and mostly is well handled. It may go a step too far here or there, but I think it bridges what I thought might have been an unbrdigeable gap between King and Kubrick, while also being a Mike Flanagan movie all the while.

1408 is good and effective. Not special, but solid.

There's one that I'd never heard of, which is a clearly small and cheaply made and not much loved adaptation, but that I enjoyed for the sorta nasty piece of work that it was called Night Flier. It's not great, but it got some nice atmosphere and a cool setting. It must have been a financial failure because the director didn't make another movie for a long time.

Also a miniseries I never heard of before this winter called Storm of the Century. It was an original script, not based on a book, and it has that made for TV cheesiness about it, but it's a fairly compelling story.

Also, Thinner is somehow well liked, but that movie fucking sucks. A cursed pie? Fucking stupid.

Liked Shawshank, The Shining, The Green Mile, Carrie, Stand By Me. Haven't seen anything else. All 8/10, maybe 8.5 for Shawshank and 7.5 for Stand By Me.

I like the Shining movie as kind of a stand alone piece. Seen the movie before I read the book. Loved the movie more but now I love the book more. Much of the books more scary parts, the fire hose, the topiary animals, were unfilmable (Kubrick would never use FX), so he had to add the Grady Girls. They still creep me out. But the fall of Jack into madness really was poorly done.


I loved the Outsider and HATED the miniseries. Started so good, until Holly Gibney showed up. One of my favorite King characters. Turned her for a loveable neurotic genius into a smart mouthed alcoholic. The did the same thing with Mr. Mercedes. Bill Hodges was a cool character. In the miniseries, I was rooting for Brady Hartsfield to kill the miserable prick.

And I won't even go into the utter sacrilege of the Dark Tower. A big fuck you to all involved.