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Cujo
Carrie
A lot of the world didn't know who Stephen King was when this movie hit theaters. That quickly changed, as Sissy Spacek's portrayal of the telekinetic teen with the religious-nut mother packed houses and made millions.
The Dead Zone
Firestarter
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The Mist
Apt Pupil
Stand By Me
Needful Things
Max von Sydow was the perfect choice to play Leland Gaunt, the sepulchral owner of the title's antique shop, which sold cursed objects that fulfilled people's darkest wishes. Ed Harris played legendary King lawman Sheriff Pangborn, turning in his usual creditable, squinting performance.
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Pet Sematary
For me, this is one of the truest film adaptations of any King book. Hiring Herman Munster himself, Fred Gwynne, to play the sepulchral neighbor Jud anchored the cast, and the little kid who played Gage couldn't have been more creepy.
Silver Bullet
The Stand
Children of the Corn
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Cell
Graveyard Shift
The Mangler
Most of you have never set foot in a commercial washing plant, but you don't need the experience to get the chill from this story. The demonically possessed machine is all grinding gears and whirling belts ... perfect stuff of nightmares.
The Tommyknockers
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Which Stephen King adaptation is shown in this screenshot?
The Tommyknockers
Stand By Me
Sleepwalkers
The Shawshank Redemption
You might be surprised, given its ubiquitous presence on cable TV and so many critics' top 100 lists, but this movie did poorly in its theatrical release. These days, when I find someone who hasn't seen it, I feel like I've found a unicorn.
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Which Stephen King adaptation is shown in this screenshot?
The Shining
King didn't particularly care for Stanley Kubrick's take on one of his earliest books. Kubrick changed a lot, and left out a lot, and while the finished product isn't quite King's work you can't argue with Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance.
Christine
Pet Sematary
Carrie
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Christine
Carrie
Stand By Me
Sometimes They Come Back ... Again
This was a largely unnecessary sequel to Sometimes They Come Back, about a high school teacher bedeviled by demons in teen-hood form. It did feature Hilary Swank in an early role, as well as TV dad Michael Gross.
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Hearts in Atlantis
This movie brings old favorites and new together, as Anthony Hopkins plays a mysterious old man and Star Trek's Anton Yelchin plays his young friend. It's bittersweet to see Yelchin at this young age, knowing that he died in a freak accident on the cusp of huge things.
Golden Years
11.22.63
Haven
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The Dark Half
Secret Window
This movie got to a topic no doubt near and dear to King's heart. A writer (played by Johnny Depp) is accused of plagiarism and then stalked by a nut looking for a bizarre form of justice.
Hearts in Atlantis
The Stand
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Pet Sematary
Creepshow
The Cat From Hell
This tale of a cat supposedly doing in an old man was one of the stories in the "Tales From The Darkside" movie. The movie featured Debbie Harry as a witch trying to eat a little boy, who then tells the tales that make up the movie.
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Dreamcatcher
The story was one of the goriest bits of writing King ever did, and the movie didn't let up for a minute. Morgan Freeman appears for no apparent reason. Maybe being in another King movie was on his bucket list?
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The Mist
Cell
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Which Stephen King adaptation is shown in this screenshot?
Stand By Me
Golden Years
The Talisman
Misery
Kathy Bates and James Caan were on screen for about 90 percent of the movie, and they made the most of it. Bates took home a best actress Oscar for her portrayal of nutso obsessed fan Annie Wilkes.
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Dolores Claiborne
Kathy Bates returns to King territory as the title character in this one. She didn't take home another Oscar, but her character was every bit as creepy as Annie Wilkes.
The Man Who Loved Flowers
Carrie
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Children of the Corn
King forever changed long drives in the country with this creepy-but-funny tale. "He Who Walks Behind The Rows" has to be the silliest boogeyman name ever.
The Mist
Cujo
Creepshow
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Which Stephen King adaptation is shown in this screenshot?
Quicksilver Highway
Riding the Bullet
Hitchhiking, as we all know, is a dangerous thing to do. This film makes it even worse, when a man trying to get home to his sick mother is picked up by a mysterious stranger who's got a deadly offer to make.
The Stand
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Tales From The Darkside
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The Mist
Creepshow
This anthology movie is a masterpiece of high camp, with Lindsey Nielsen and Adrienne Barbeau in full-on overacting glory. One story, "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill," even features King playing a hick farmer who finds a meteorite and turns into a plant. Yes, seriously.
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Which Stephen King adaptation is shown in this screenshot?
The Shining
The Dark Half
1408
You'll think twice about staying in old hotels after this one, which shares a bit of DNA with King's other haunted hotel story, The Shining. John Cusack's determined to debunk the bloody mysteries surrounding the title room, and Samuel L. Jackson goes creepy as the hotel manager who tries to warn him off ... but not very hard.
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The Shawshank Redemption
The Running Man
The Long Walk
The Green Mile
King released this novel in serial form, and it was great, but in my opinion the movie was better. With Tom Hanks as a prison guard and the gone-too-soon Michael Clarke Duncan as mystical convict John Coffey, it's a film that will stick with you long after it ends. Duncan got a best supporting actor Oscar nom.
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Pet Sematary
Thinner
This story is a mini-masterpiece of revenge fantasy, with a killer gypsy curse afflicting a fat man who drives over an old woman. You'll never look at weight loss the same way again.
Gerald's Game
Strawberry Spring
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Everything You Love
No Smoking
This Indian film was adapted from King's short story in the Night Shift anthology titled "Quitters, Inc." Imagine if the Mafia ran a stop-smoking clinic. You pick up a cigarette, and a family member takes a turn in a torture chamber ... while you have to watch.
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Which Stephen King adaptation is shown in this screenshot?
Cujo
The original novel was packed full of things that had nothing to do with the giant, rabid, possibly demon-possessed Saint Bernard. The movie cut to the chase a little more quickly, with gut-churning effectiveness.
Pet Sematary
Sometimes They Come Back
Desperation
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The Tommyknockers
The Night Flier
Imagine a vampire who's adopted plane travel to go from kill to kill, always by night of course. He even has his very own Renfield, in the finest Stoker tradition.
The Langoliers
Salem's Lot
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The Langoliers
Night Surf
The Mist
Is it a dimensional portal? A government experiment gone wrong? Hell opening up? The creatures in the title miasma are tentacled horrors, and Marcia Gay Harden turned in an amazing performance as Mrs. Carmody.
The Man In The Black Suit
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Dolan's Cadillac
This nifty bit of revenge horror features Christian Slater as a mild-mannered guy who's wife is murdered by a mob boss. The punishment he devises for the mobster takes years to execute, but it's worth it.
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Riding the Bullet
One for the Road
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Carrie
Here There Be Tigers
Popsy
Firestarter
Remember when Drew Barrymore was a cute little girl, still years away from dancing topless on David Letterman's desk? Here, she plays Charlie, the titular flamethrower who's stalked by a creepy assassin played by George C. Scott.
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Which Stephen King adaptation is shown in this screenshot?
Gerald's Game
The Good Marriage
King dives deep into marital disharmony in this one, more of his turn from monster-in-the-closet horror to the evil in human souls. A wife finds out her husband is a serial killer, and it just gets more twisted from there.
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Dolores Claiborne
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Which Stephen King adaptation is shown in this screenshot?
Apt Pupil
Remember high school history, when you learned about the Nazis who had escaped the Nuremberg Trials and disappeared? Now imagine you're a teen who finds one of the escapees in your town ... and you're a psychopath.
Stand By Me
The Death of Jack Hamilton
The Gingerbread Girl
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Firestarter
The Dead Zone
Johnny Smith is one of my very favorite King heroes. He's an ordinary guy with a little "shine," a little psychic talent, that is magnified after a brain injury. His talent leads him to save lives, mend relationships, catch a killer ... and derail a presidential campaign.
Christine
The Shining
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Which Stephen King adaptation is shown in this screenshot?
Firestarter
Carrie
Sleepwalkers
Firestarter 2: Rekindled
King didn't actually write this one, but since it uses his characters his name is attached. John Rainbird is reincarnated, this time played by always-creepy Malcolm McDowell. McDowell pretty much works for any creepy role.
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Which Stephen King adaptation is shown in this screenshot?
The Long Walk
Cell
Touching on technological terror, King cooked up this proto-zombie thriller. A mysterious signal turns those using cellphones into flesh-rending maniacs, and John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson lead a band of survivors.
Survivor Type
Strawberry Spring
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Which Stephen King adaptation is shown in this screenshot?
Creepshow 2
This second of the anthologies features what's, to me, the best segment of all. In "The Raft" a group of teenagers go for a fun swim at a lake ... until the lake starts eating them in very messy ways.
Creepshow
Needful Things
Survivor Type
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Which Stephen King adaptation is shown in this screenshot?
Dreamcatcher
The Running Man
Sleepwalkers
This was one of the few King movies that he wrote without writing a novel first. It's a nifty tale of a mother-and-son vampire pair who come to a small town in search of a virgin girl. King cast himself as a goofy cemetery caretaker. You'll see him in a lot of his movies, much like Stan Lee or Alfred Hitchcock.
Salem's Lot
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Salem's Lot
A Return to Salem's Lot
Did this man and his son not see the original movie? Read the original book? Why on earth would you pick Jerusalem's Lot as a vacation spot?
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Christine
Cursed objects are a favorite topic in King's early fiction, and never more effectively than here. The Plymouth Fury lives up to its name, finding all manner of creative ways to kill humans despite not having hands.
Dolan's Cadillac
Cat's Eye
Silver Bullet
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Graveyard Shift
Silver Bullet
The Lawnmower Man
The Mangler Reborn
This straight-to-DVD turkey brought back the laundry machine from the original, but left out pretty much everything else worthwhile. It's worth a watch for a beer night, but only if there's plenty of beer.
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Silver Bullet
Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice
You might not be aware that Children of the Corn has spawned a whole host of sequels. This first one left behind the humor of the original in favor of more blood, more creepy kids and an amped-up supernatural component.
Grey Matter
Cain Rose Up
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The Reaper's Image
The Boogeyman
Silver Bullet
This werewolf story has a nifty twist: The silver bullet of the title is a wheelchair/motorcycle operated by a paraplegic boy who first fends off the werewolf with fireworks, then learns his identity. Gary Busey and Lost's Terry O'Quinn add some manic acting firepower.
Night Surf
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Mercy
Renowned character actress Shirley Knight plays the title character, a senile grandmother with immense supernatural powers who nearly enslaves her daughter and grandson. Walking Dead fans will be happy to see Chandler Riggs (Carl) playing a big role.
Salem's Lot
Carrie
The Boogeyman
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The Boogeyman
Big Driver
Night Surf
Salem's Lot
This vampire story is one of the best of the 20th century, to me. It uses all the bits of vampire mythos (having a master vampire, sleeping in their own soil, having familiars) but sets it in a modern New England town. David Soul is great as the tortured hero of the tale.
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The Mist
The Stand
Ask most King fans, and they'll name this as one of their all-time favorites. A supervirus does in most of the world's population, and this allows ancient powers of good and evil (God and Satan, although not quite named as such) to battle it out. Worth a read AND a watch.
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Trucks
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Survivor Type
Stand By Me
Cat's Eye
An anthology film bound together by the presence of a cat in each of the three tales, this is well worth a watch. Drew Barrymore stars in the last segment as a girl menaced by a troll and protected by the cat.
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It
Coulrophobics beware: Tim Curry is pretty much the creepiest clown ever. While the book had a lot of metaphysical, otherworldly overtones, the miniseries sticks more to the straight horror aspect, with Curry's Pennywise luring children to terrible deaths in the sewers.
Children of the Corn
Needful Things
Stand By Me
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Gotham Cafe
Secret Window
The Dark Half
One senses that King's own fear of some of his characters is at work in this story. A writer creates a character who then decides to take over his life. King's created some doozies.
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The Lawnmower Man
Pet Sematary Two
In sequel-mad Hollywood, a movie like Pet Sematary is bound to spawn a followup. This one has Terminator 2 boy-hero Edward Furlong and ER's Anthony Edwards aboard as new victims of the sacred burial ground.
The Running Man
Thinner
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Trucks
The Mist
Maximum Overdrive
Emilio Estevez (remember him?) leads a group of truck stop diner customers who are cornered and enslaved by the machines they used to drive. The written story had a bit of comic flair, but the movie goes full-on gonzo gore.
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Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest
Two of the "corn kids" get adopted to Chicago, and one of them brings his agricultural mojo with him. What happens when He Who Walks Behind The Rows comes to Chi-Town? Well, it's ... messy.
Stand By Me
Apt Pupil
Sleepwalkers
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Total Recall
Sleepwalkers
The Running Man
This is another instance where the movie outdoes the story, in my book. With Schwarzenegger starring, and Richard Dawson in a gonzo performance as a demented game show host, it's a thrill ride of a flick.
The Lawnmower Man
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The Lawnmower Man
Strawberry Spring
Firestarter Rekindled
The Rage: Carrie 2
This made-for-TV sequel brings along Sue Snell, from the original story, now as a high school guidance counselor. The new Carrie is again a high school student, again with all manner of scores to settle.
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Stand by Me
The Dead Zone
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