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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