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The best Stephen King adaptations, from classics like 'The Shining' to recent TV fare

Summary by Entertainment Weekly
These works based on the horror master's novels continue to haunt.Michael Weinstein/Columbia; Courtesy Everett (2) Morgan Freeman as Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding in 'The Shawshank Redemption'; Sissy Spacek as Carrie White in 'Carrie'; Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance in 'The Shining'With the sheer amount of Stephen King adaptations released in theaters and on television, there are bound to be some that don't live up to the King of Horror's genius. Bu…

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Have you ever wondered how much evil can be hidden in a perfectly normal person? How much horror can be found in a house where the lawn is always mowed and the mailbox emptied? Stephen King's "Holly" takes the reader to just such an eerie silence - a place where nothing seems wrong until it's too late.

Hardly any author is as productive as the horror icon Stephen King. This can also be seen in the cinema and on TV: 16 adaptations are in the making.US author Stephen King (77) is known for writing a 600-page bestseller faster than some can read the corresponding flap text. His hyperproductiveness has already resulted in countless cinema and TV films as well as mini and regular series. Sometimes the same material has been filmed several times ("F…

Hardly any author is as productive as the horror icon Stephen King. This can also be seen in the cinema and on TV: 16 adaptations are in the making.US author Stephen King, 77, is known for writing a 600-page bestseller faster than some can read the corresponding flap text. His hyperproductiveness has already resulted in countless cinema and TV films as well as mini and regular series. Sometimes the same material has been filmed several times ("F…

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Entertainment Weekly broke the news in United States on Friday, May 23, 2025.
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