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

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

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…

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…

Stephen King was so terrified by this movie he couldn’t finish it

Few writers loom as large in the world of terror as Stephen King. Since his debut novel Carrie in 1974, he’s churned out chilling tales at a remarkable pace—many adapted into iconic films and TV shows. You’d think the man who created Pennywise and Jack Torrance would be impervious to fright. Yet there’s one movie that left him reaching for the remote: The Blair Witch Project. A Fractured Viewing Experience King first encountered Blair Witch und…