Topic: Your Favorite Stephen King Adaptation

Stephen King has been called a master of horror and rightly so; with over 50 adaptations of his written works, one can’t deny that he has been a major influence in the genre for over three decades. But with so damn many adaptations out there, can you pick your favorite?

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So many to choose....but for my favorite film adaptations of his novels, I'd have to go with either "Carrie" or "Rose Red"

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Kubrick's 'The Shining' and DePalma's 'Carrie'... Stephen King hated Kubrick's adaption of The Shining but what does he know about film?... nothing.

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Needful Things
The Dead Zone
The Shawshank Redemption
Silver Bullet
The Night Flier
The Dark Half
Christine
Stand By Me
Misery
Apt Pupil
The Mist

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in no particular order

Salem's lot
the mist
misery
firestarter
the dead zone
carrie
the stand
stand by me

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I think I've read about 90% of the books he's written.  I survived on them when my parents wouldn't let me watch scary movies when I was a kid.  I guess they thought books were better for a young mind, although I always found the imagery in the books to be much more disturbing than in the movies.  I'd have to say my favs are Carrie and The Mist.  And I always preferred the TV version of The Shining over the movie version.

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Without doubt, Salem's Lot (1979). But the 2004 version's good too.

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Salem's Lot (1979)
The Mist
The Shining
The Stand
The Langoliers
Stand by me
IT

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in no particular order.......
misery
the stand
carrie
the shining
christine
cujo
salems lot 
maximum overdrive............i could go on! wink

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Silver Bullet and The Shining for sure...

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My top ten...

Misery
Pet Semetary
Christine
Silver Bullet
The Shining
Salem's Lot
Carrie
The Shawshank Redemption
The Green Mile
Cujo

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The Shawshank Redemption, Silver Bullet, Stand By Me, The Shining. I'm hoping that a story he wrote as Richard Bachman titled "The Long Walk," will one day be made into a movie.

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Underdog wrote:

The Shawshank Redemption, Silver Bullet, Stand By Me. The Shining. I'm hoping that a story he wrote as Richard Bachman titled "The Long Walk," will one day be made into a movie.

Nice call! "The Long Walk" is THE best written work that I've ever read. As a film adaptation it has the potential to be amazing, but more than likely they'd fuck it up.

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Misery
Carrie
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I can't be doing with the Shamshack Redemption,  or whatever that cliché filled crap is called.

I am in a minority I know who finds that film extremely boring.

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I can't be doing with the Shamshack Redemption,  or whatever that cliché filled crap is called.

I am in a minority I know who finds that film extremely boring.

I hear you, but any movie that has Tim Robbins getting anally raped has some merit.

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The Shining (1980) is one of my favorite horror movies. I like most of the adaptions that I have seen but some favorites are...

Misery
The Mist
Storm of the Century
Needful Things
The Stand
Dreamcatchers
Carrie
Pet Semetary

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Huge Stephen King fan. Thanks to my dad having a huge collection. Some of my favs...

Pet Semetary- Prob my favorite one of all.

The Langoliers- Even though the special effects were just, Meh.

The Mist- Great story, great movie.. provoked plenty emotion.

Misery- Kathy Bates played the hell out of that role.

Thinner- I know that it wasn't the best adapation, but I loved it.

Sometimes They Come Back- Another one not many ppl liked, but I enjoyed.

Carrie

The Tommyknockers

The Mangler- I actually seen the movie before reading the short story.. but I really enjoyed the movie.

and also one of his story he wrote for 'Creepshow' The one with Leslie Neilson. That cracked me the hell up.. My fav short in the film.

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wolfman1959 wrote:

in no particular order

Salem's lot
the mist
misery
firestarter
the dead zone
carrie
the stand
stand by me

Pet Semetary

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wolfman1959 wrote:
wolfman1959 wrote:

in no particular order

Salem's lot
the mist
misery
firestarter
the dead zone
carrie
the stand
stand by me

Pet Semetary

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The Shining
Shawshank Redemption
Misery
Pet Sematary
Children of the Corn
It
Creepshow

Too many...
I have the Stand in my netflix que. loved the book. and still waiting to see a few like salems lot

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Stand by me
The green mile
Pet cem

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A toss up between The Shining and Pet Sematary

I also enjoyed Salem's Lot and Night Flier

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Riding the Bullet and Shining

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Pet Sematary
Silver Bullet
Christine
Salem's Lot
The Shining
Carrie
Riding the Bullet
The Night Flier