Your favorite Stephen King adaptation...

[colmatrix]

My top 3 are The Stand, It, and Desperation. Of course everyone knows the first two, but Desperation went way under the radar, and is probably the scariest in my top 3. I highly recommend. What are yours? Try to just give three...

[Lavoruis]

It , The Stand , DarkHalf , and my new favorite: 1408
talk about intense!

[Nostromo]

The Shining
The Dead Zone
Carrie

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[Penfold]

The Shawshank Redemption and The Shining.

[fastcar]

Shawshank, Stand By Me, It, and The Stand.


Although, I'm interested to see how they do the Dark Tower...

[Al-Dog]

The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me.

Can we have a top six?

Misery, Carrie and The Dead Zone.

[Strider]

The Shawshank Redemption is my favorite by far.

[colmatrix]

OMG I forgot all about Shawshank. And Stand by Me. I was going mostly for made-for-TV stuff, I forgot that half the movies in Hollywood are written by him. :D

[mckracken]

1408, Shining (both), Rose Red, Misery, Desperation, The Night Flier, Dead Zone
...I also really liked Storm of the Century too....oh Tommyknockers and Golden Years but those are way down the list.
I'm sorry, but for Haunted House movies, Rose Red is bar none the creepiest flick out there, even if it WAS aired for TV... and its a toss up whether or not I prefer the TV remake of Shining over Kubrick's vision.
...oops i forgot all about Christine and CUJO too.:confused:

dont flame me, but I hated the ending of IT and The Stand... those got off to a seriously cool start, but fighting giant spiders with magic gold rocks? WTF? the glowing Hand of God sweeps down and blows up a bomb? WTF? both of these got off to a rockin start but faded quickly into abysmal tripe.

with Steven King, you have to separate the legit horror flicks from his other flicks like Shawshank Redemption, Stand By Me and Green Mile which i wouldnt consider his usual "horror" faire.

[Strider]

.....with Steven King, you have to separate the legit horror flicks from his other flicks like Shawshank Redemption, Stand By Me and Green Mile which i wouldnt consider his usual "horror" faire.

Ahhh, but this is a thread about your favorite Stephen King adaptations, horror or otherwise. :D

[fastcar]

I admit, IT had a stupid ending and Tommyknockers didn't come near enough to the creep factor of the book. Yes, The Stand had a bad special effect ending....but the music kicked ass. I have that soundtrack and it's in my top 5.

[Bill_the_Pony]

I admit, IT had a stupid ending and Tommyknockers didn't come near enough to the creep factor of the book. Yes, The Stand had a bad special effect ending....but the music kicked ass. I have that soundtrack and it's in my top 5.

Have we agreed on that soundtrack for The Stand elsewhere, fastcar? I love it as well! I wish that it was more complete, and included the pop songs as well. Not so much the classic ones (Don't Fear the Reaper, Don't Dream it's Over, Boogie Fever) which I already have, but the one Larry Underwood sings and we only get to hear a portion of, on the bridge in NYC as he's driving home to see Mom. That was done by a well-known R&B singer, but I am too lazy to look it up right now.

I also love The Shining, the Dead Zone, and Misery. :cool:

The score for The Shining is also a favorite scary music album.

Absolutely detested The Langoliers. :mad:

And the climax of IT was utterly ruined with the stop motion crab spider thing that looked like Ray Harryhausen. (As classic and loved as Harryhausen and his work are, "scary" is not a word I would use to describe it) The horror you envision and experience in your own imagnation is completely unfilmable.

[fastcar]

Not sure if we have, bill. I love Snuffy Walden's work. I happened upon the sountrack one day in the mall. And yes, it is incomplete.

[mckracken]

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one everybody forgot... partly because its not a "true adaptation" of King's work. This flick is still BADASS... if only because Steven and Romero both collaborated on it.

the sequels are forgettable.

[Bill_the_Pony]

Oh, another favorite, and a guilty pleasure of sorts....

Firestarter.

Great 80's cheese....I love the casting, the somewhat tacky production values, yet it had a considerable budget. Tangerine Dream's score was one of their best. In spite of the movie being a mess, it did have some really good moments in it.

[Trazalca]

Tough to call, but here's mine:

1) Shawshank Redemption
2) The Green Mile
3) Stand By Me

But I expect to knock off one of those titles once The Mist comes out. :smirk:

[Jakester]

I'm with Traz on a top 3, but 1408 and Kubrick's The Shining are close behind.