We Rank 3. 9 Films Based on His Works. Few authors have seen their work adapted for the screen as often as master of horror Stephen King. After 4. 0- plus years of King’s writing, we’ve counted 3. TV movies). In honor of the arrival of Hulu’s excellent new mini- series based on King’s 1.
Read Yahoo TV’s coverage of 1. The Mangler (1. 99. This mishmash of King clichés is all the more dispiriting given the peerless horror pedigree of its director Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) and costars Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger in many movie Nightmares) and Ted Levine (The Silence of the Lambs’ Buffalo Bill). Centered on an industrial laundry press machine possessed by a demon, the film lurches to and fro with a gracelessness made all the more egregious by the sheer silliness of its premise – complete with an embarrassing exorcism to halt the mechanical murderer.
Maximum Overdrive (1. Superior to King’s 1. Trucks” (which isn’t saying much), the film is notorious as the author’s first – and last – attempt at directing. It didn’t help that at the time, as King told interviewer Tony Magistrale in 2.
On screen, Emilio Estevez leads a band of humans battling a fleet of big- rig trucks that, like the rest of Earth’s machines, are brought to murderous life by a passing comet. What follows is silliness of a purely campy order, driven by AC/DC’s hard- rock riffage, and marked by ludicrous thriller sequences that border on self- parody. No Smoking (2. 00. From India, No Smoking is based on King’s short story “Quitters, Inc.,” which was previously adapted – with much stronger results – in 1.
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Cat’s Eye anthology (see No. Though stripped of King’s mordant humor, the film never seems sure how seriously to take its story of a man who engages with a business that uses over- the- top – if not deadly – intimidation tactics to help clients kick the nicotine. It’s so haphazardly slapped together that it’s often impossible to follow. Riding the Bullet (2. Mick Garris, the man behind many subpar TV- movie King adaptations (as well as Sleepwalkers; see No. King’s 2. 00. 0 novella, in which a death- obsessed Maine art student (Jonathan Jackson) sets out to visit his mother (Barbara Hershey) in the hospital on Halloween 1. David Arquette). This sloppy effort is all cheap jolt scares, overcooked flashbacks, and excessive gore, a jumbled mess of gimmicks that are less terrifying than unintentionally funny.
Dolan’s Cadillac (2. Originally published in serialized form, and later collected in 1. Nightmares and Dreamscapes, King’s 1. Las Vegas schoolteacher out to kill the mob boss who murdered his wife. Starring a dull Wes Bentley and a less- crazy- than- he- should- be Christian Slater, this hopelessly dreary and monotonous direct- to- video version squanders its lead actors and its premise via lifeless direction and a flat script.
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Graveyard Shift (1. King’s short stories frequently lack enough meat on their bones to warrant a feature- length adaptation. Take this attempt, which stretches to the breaking point King’s 1. Whereas King’s prose elevates this standard- issue scenario, the film is merely a protracted series of formulaic loud- noise scares and gruesome deaths that can’t even be saved by the presence of the always- entertaining Brad Dourif.
Firestarter (1. 98. Drew Barrymore is the titular pyrokinetic girl on the run from government agents (led by Martin Sheen) with her ESP- enhanced father (David Keith) in this adaptation of King’s passable- at- best 1. While there’s something strangely transfixing about the sight of George C.
Scott as a ponytailed Native American CIA assassin driven to kill Barrymore’s paranormal kid, this chase- centric thriller simply lacks even a single credible moment. Its pointless story seems to exist only as an excuse to stage multiple conflagrations. Watch young Drew Barrymore in an original trailer for ‘Firestarter’: 3. Dreamcatcher (2. 00. David Cronenberg might have been able to make something skin- crawlingly unique from the source novel, a hodgepodge of many of King’s favorite tropes.
But as directed by Lawrence Kasdan, this big- budget adaptation pitting four psychically linked friends against rectally inclined alien invaders and government baddies is merely gross, sluggish, and one- note. A cast led by Morgan Freeman, Thomas Jane, Damian Lewis, Timothy Olyphant, and Tom Sizemore fails to salvage not- of- this- world action that amounts to an avalanche of empty sound and fury. Sleepwalkers (1. 99. Mick Garris’ take on a story written for the big screen by King is so over- the- top absurd it may feel more like a horror- tinged comedy. The title refers to a type of shape- shifting lifeforce- draining vampiric werecats, including a mother (Alice Krige) jealous of a budding romance between her son (Brian Krause) and a human girl.
Alas, its connect- the- dots plotting is so lackluster it often feels downright inert. Krige has a phenomenally creepy presence, but the final showdown between the supernatural creatures and their sworn enemies – housecats! The Night Flier (1. Yes, it gets some mileage out of its portrait of tabloid journalists and bloodsucking vampires as kindred spirits, as well as a full- on hammy performance from Miguel Ferrer as a cynical, world- weary muckraker who goes all- in to find a mysterious killer traveling to and from his crime scenes in a small plane. But the film’s made with such chintziness that any satiric objectives are ultimately overshadowed by the ugly visuals, cheap makeup and special effects, and dearth of scares.
Hearts in Atlantis (2. The most intriguing aspect of King’s 1.
Vietnam era, is the link to the author’s Dark Tower series in its primary piece, Low Men in Yellow Coats. No such connections are made by this screen adaptation, which merely recounts the friendship that develops between a young boy (Anton Yelchin) and an older gentleman (Anthony Hopkins) who moves into his town and, it turns out, has psychic abilities. The ‘6. 0s period setting is nicely (if mawkishly) re- created, but this supernatural- ish coming- of- age tale suffers from a total lack of pressing verve. Hd Cartoons Ipod Get A Horse. Needful Things (1. Despite a fantastic cast including Max von Sydow, Ed Harris, Bonnie Bedelia, and the late, great J. T. Walsh, this adaptation of King’s 1. As the proprietor of a new store that sells charmed items designed to make customers do his nefarious bidding, von Sydow strikes a suitably devilish pose.
Yet whereas his villain’s attempts to destroy a small Maine enclave should be a vehicle for dark, biting social- commentary humor – or, you know, outright terror – it just plays as one mean prank after another, each more predictable and less engaging (and embellished with bad Satanic puns) than the last. Thinner (1. 99. 6)An atonal thriller too jokey to be scary, and yet too mean- spirited and repugnant to be amusing, the film version of King’s 1. Richard Bachman pseudonym) concerns a morally revolting – and obese – lawyer (Robert John Burke) who runs over a gypsy woman and is slapped with a curse that causes him to rapidly lose weight. While that setup seems ripe for any number of satirical takes, the film is too busy wasting time on chases, shootouts, and other mafia- related nonsense to exploit its central metaphor.
Watch the trailer for ‘Thinner’: 2. Dolores Claiborne (1. Having won an Oscar for her turn in Misery (see No.
Kathy Bates went back to the King well with this ponderous adaptation of his 1. It’s a leaden central mystery, but that doesn’t stop director Taylor Hackford from treating it with the utmost solemnity. Bates and Jennifer Jason Leigh (as Dolores’ daughter) emote like crazy, but in terms of both acting and pacing, this return- of- the- repressed tale is a consistent slog. Cujo (1. 98. 3)The final showdown between a crazed, rabid Saint Bernard and a mother (Dee Wallace) and her son (Who’s the Boss?’s Danny Pintauro) provides the only modicum of terror in this otherwise dreary adaptation of King’s (admittedly weak) 1.