Directed by Vincenzo Natali, who previously made a simple geometric shape seem terrifying in "Cube," this adaptation of a novella by King and his son, Joe Hill, excels at transforming everyday vegetation into the stuff of nightmares. Before we rank into every theatrically-released Stephen King adaptation let's give out one honorable mention.Ī little boy calls for help inside a field of grass, prompting a brother and sister to search for him and get hopelessly lost inside a verdant labyrinth of violence and fear. We promise we tried.)Įven with all those caveats we felt one particular film deserved a quasi-official, honorable mention. (There are also some adaptations that are simply difficult to find in America, like the Indian adaptions of "Misery" and "Quitter's, Inc." - "Julie Ganapathi" and "No Smoking" - but we tried. We also cut King some slack and removed "The Lawnmower Man" from our watch list, since he fought to have his own name removed from the film and won. The sequels to King's work rarely have anything to do with the source material, so they're all disqualified (even though some, like Larry Cohen's prescient anti-fascist monster drama "A Return to Salem's Lot," are genuinely interesting). Cataloguing every adaptation might be a fool's errand, so we made some tough choices and decided to focus only on his theatrical releases.Īnd even then, there are so many King adaptations that it gets tricky. King's books and short stories quickly became hit movies, many of them celebrated in their time, and some flopped so hard that hardly anybody remembers them. The best King stories scare so many of us that we all feel connected, and even the worst are usually pretty fun. Stephen King isn't just an author by this point: He's an institution, a legacy of classic horror stories that capture our imaginations, fuel our nightmares, and speak - when he's at his best - to our shared experiences as flawed, emotional beings.
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