The only adaptation of his he truly vocally hated was one of the greatest horror films of all time so yeah lol
On the contrary, he actually went on record that the Doctor Sleep adaptation redeemed the Kubrick adaptation of The Shining.
was this for the director's cut? i thought i remembered him disliking the theatrical but walking it back. could be way off though.
Stephen King says 'Doctor Sleep' 'redeems' Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining' "I don't want to get into a big argument about how great the Shining film is that Kubrick did or my feelings about it," says King. "All I can say is, Mike took my material, he created a terrific story, people who have seen this movie flip for it, and I flipped for it, too. Because he managed to take my novel of Doctor Sleep, the sequel, and somehow weld it seamlessly to the Kubrick version of The Shining, the movie. So, yeah, I liked it a lot."
he had pretty good reason to hate Kubrick's Shining, I hate when people bring that up as a gotcha while ignoring the very obvious context