The Horror Thread 2U • Page 993

I'm going to abstain from any The Mist / Doctor Sleep discussion

 

Haven’t seen it but I know it and I think it rules

 

I love The Mist in general personally. I watch it in color or b&w like once a year

 

I might be thinking of the fog lol

 

I also love it

 

No it is the mist

what a journey

 

Wait are you sure you're not getting mixed up with The Haze

 

OH NO

 

To get real for a second though, there is an absurd amount of King adaptations. Like, truly off the wall. Is there anyone else who can hold a candle to the amount of books adapted to screen? It def helps that he lives and breathes writing but goodness me

 

It’s pretty cool that Flanagan is basically the King guy now

 

This is just my taste, not overall quality and includes TV miniseries.

1. The Shining
2. Stand By Me
3. Christine
4. Misery
5. Carrie
6. IT (1990 miniseries)
7. Pet Sematary (1989)
8. Shawshank Redemption
9. The Dead Zone
10. Salem’s Lot (1979 miniseries)
11. Silver Bullet
12. Creepshow 2
13. The Stand (1994 miniseries)
14. The Shining (1997 miniseries)
15. Children of the Corn

 

Oh yeah, I've also seen The Green Mile. Like, once. Twenty years ago.

Haven't seen Stand By Me or Shawshank and am a little embarrassed about it

 

Creepshow 2 but no Creepshow??

 

This is half the reason I said it lmao

 

No IT chapter one is wild. That’s a great movie even if the 2nd was butt

 

I know, I know.

Creepshow 1 is really boring to me and Creepshow 2 has The Raft which is one of my favorite King shorts and the sequence rules and The Hitchhiker also rules hard.

 

There's so many! This one was hard to cut though, I really do like it.

 

Definitely worth watching both of those

 

Stand By Me is amazing and I feel like the best representation of Kings work on film. It completely nails the horrors of growing up and the whole "something is wrong with this idyllic community and time, but only the kids can see it" similarly to the IT miniseries, but better quality filmmaking. The Shining is obviously the best film out of all of them, but not representative of King.

 

Off the top of my head, just in terms of enjoyment:

The Shining (Kubrick film)
Creepshow
Stand By Me
Cat's Eye
Maximum Overdrive
Misery
Carrie (DePalma film)
1408
Christine

 

Digital on May 26th

 

preach my brother

 

Maximum Overdrive rules.

Have you see Trucks, the made for TV version of the same King story from 1997? I downloaded it recently, but haven't watched it yet.

 

no discussion of Tobe Hooper's Salem's Lot on the last couple pages is wild. but yeah Stand By Me is the best one, captures his nostalgic tone of writing, the interiority he gives every character (that movies almost always hollow out, looking at you Kubrick) and his favourite topic of growing up perfectly. one of my favourite movies