Few authors have seen their work adapted for the screen as often as master of horror Stephen King . After 40-plus years of cranking out books, we've tallied 42 feature films drawn from his tales of terror, suspense, mystery, and drama .
In the summer of 1982, one movie imagined with eerie accuracy the film medium's most persistent and successful competitor - television - as a supernatural force fighting for control of American hearts and minds. This was 35 years ago, long before cable explosion and streaming and "Game of Thrones."
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If you took your assumptions about US demographic data from horror films, you'd think that Jews were a substantially smaller portion of the American population than serial killers, vampires, ghosts, demons and poltergeists. Horror films are fond of Catholic priests and Christian imagery, and they not infrequently include Jewish actors .
After a decade of failed attempts, Universal's Halloween Horror Nights creative director John Murdy finally landed the rights to turn Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" into a haunted maze and immediately ran into his worst fear. Based on the 1977 Stephen King book, the horror film follows aspiring writer Jack Torrance, played by Jack Nicholson , after he accepts an off-season caretaker job at the haunted Overlook Hotel.
With The Dark Tower released last month and a fresh take on his horror classic It out today, movie adaptations of Stephen King's books are understandably getting a lot of coverage at the moment. Given the sheer volume of his back catalogue and the number of years he's been active, it's no surprise to note that countless King adaptations have hit our screens over the years, and they have varied significantly in terms of quality.
A college student must relive her birthday, which is also the day she's murdere... Columbia Pictures) Ellen Page plays Courtney, one of a group of medical students who get their kicks stopping their hearts, in the thriller "Flatliners," a remake of the 1990 movie. Warner Bros.
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, playing fictionalized versions of themselves, endure dressing like Don Quixote and Sancho Panza while on a driving-and-eating tour of Spain, in the comedy "The Trip to Spain." Turning 50 is good for many laughs, when it's happening to somebody else - especially if those somebodies are British comedians Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, teaming up for the third time for "The Trip to Spain."