Yeah, but some of those are pretty good, if a little dated. The original The Stand miniseries was great, and so was the original Salem's Lot and It. Sometimes They Come Back (ignore the sequels) was good. I still maintain that Children of the Corn and Graveyard Shift aren't as bad as people make them out to be. The Mangler is well made. Some old TV shows like the 1985 Twilight Zone and Monsters had some interesting adaptations of his short stories, as did the recent TNT miniseries Nightmares and Dreamscapes. But you're right, many of the others are pretty blah.
I could see that, and, if at all possible, have King do the screenplay, OR, have him CHOOSE a writer to do the screenplay. Then, let him have a hand in the editing. At least, then, it'd be as close as possible, to his vision of the story.
The list was overall good, but some of this adaptations are just awful, like Cell and The Dark Tower. Instead of those, I would have put Creepshow and Dolores Claiborne.
I saw all but one of these movies. I know I read all of the books. My girlfriend and I waited until the green mile was consolidated into one book to read it. I read it all on Thanksgiving when I had to work a double all night shift on a very boring job. The movie came out soon after and we both saw it as soon as we could. We both cried more than once. That and Shawshank Redemption can make me do that today.
"the lawnmower man" doesn't belong this list. King had his named removed because the film just used the name of the story and had a guy with a lawnmower. i like this film but legally is not a king film.
Rather disappointed in this list honestly. Your missing a few, IT Chapter 1 and 2 being a big one. I think Creepshow should also be on here, and you have to include the plethora of TV miniseries that he's spawned as well. Under the Dome, The Mist, The Stand, The Shining TV Adaptation ( I don't like it but King did), Rose Red, Langoliers, and Hearts in Atlantis.
Dreamcatcher is one of my favorite movies! I enjoy the aliens but even more so I love the bond between the friends and their kindness in helping Dudits. Not many people actually help the bullied.
Shawshank Redemption, Stand by me, Thinner, Carrie, Misery, The dead zone, Cujo, Pet Sematary, The green mile, Silver Bullet.... These are the BEST adaptations of King Stories..
This was Christopher Walken's last movie role as a sympathetic figure. I really liked this movie MUCH better than the book. Got to give it to David Cronenberg, he KNOWS how to direct this genre!
Unbelieveable that the fabulous Dolores Claibourne was left off this hit and miss list , some very fine acting and also very close to the novel . Tut , tut.
@@davidtemple5934 absolutely. Dolores Claibourne on dvd one I've not been able to find here in Australia Funny but The Shining is on TV now and of course I have to watch it even though actually have this one on DVD
@@angelajames6460 Hate to say this but got my copy from a second hand shop for 25p ! , which Shining is it the film or the t.v series which was closer to the original book version ? And have you seen the trailers for the remake of Firestarter , looks interesting .
Stephen King did not write the Cyber God it was written by Leonard and Gimel Everett, King did however write a short story called the Lawn mower man, but this story had nothing to do with the film, the change of title was a deliberate cash grab. When it was released King disavowed himself from it and tried unsuccessfully to have the name of the film changed to avoid confusion with his story. Sleepwalkers is an original screen play by King, not an adaptation.
See, I never knew anything about "Cyber God" until just now. I thought they just took "Lawnmower Man" and made up another story to fill out the length. This is so much worse.
I don't know why you would praise Tom hanks acting in the green mile when Michael Clark Duncan's portrayal of John Coffey is clearly the more poignant of the two
I like Tom Hnaks but I absolutely AGREE with you about Michael Clark Duncan's performance!!! He gave (John Coffee) Life and then some! RIP Michael Clark Duncan
The Green Mile movie adaptation is unforgettable. Not so much the usual King horror, it's more a brilliant and touching tale of fascinating characters including a mouse ....and redemption of those that 'Walk The Green Mile' to the electric chair on the sides of both good and evil. Michael Clark Duncan (who wins an Oscar for his magnificent portrayal of the enigma that is John Coffey), the prisoner who touches your very soul. This novel and it's movie adaption rate up there as the VERY Best of Both for King . A must see & bring your handkerchiefs.
What bothers me about many King adaptations is the huge difference between book and movie. For example Running Man shares only a few superficial things with the book, like names, that is in fact a game show and the title. The Dark Tower tried (and failed imo) to compress 7 books into one movie, which is impossible. I really wanted to like that movie, since I love the DT opus, but...well. Also, some of these movies are definitely not worth a watch, despite being praised in this video. The original It should be in the list (Tim Curry as Pennywise is priceless) as well as Needful Things. And although not movies but mini series, I'd add Rose Red, Storm of the Century and Kingdom Hospital.
I love so many of Steven kings works he’s such an amazing writer and has inspired so many amazing adaptations of his work I often try to imagine what the world would be like if he was never born, I can’t
Lawnmower man isn't supposed to be on this list. It is nothing, nothing at all like the short story. It was just someone making money off his name. The real story is nothing about computers it's about a fat guy getting naked and eating the lawn. Dark Tower is a joke you can't cram 7 extremely long books into a 2 hour movie. You could replaced those with Mercy (2014) is based on his short story Gramma. It's loosely based but at least it's closer than Lawnmower Man. Needful Things, Delores Claiborne would of fit better. Do a list of his other adaptions, there's lots of good work out there. Rose Red, Salem's Lot, Storm of the Century, Creepshow..... Tales from the Darkside (both the movie and the TV show), Kingdom Hospital etc....
You forgot to acknowledge Michael Clarke Duncan's fantastic Acting in The Green Mile. It basically jump-started his career and shot him into near instant Superstardom. All the way up till his sad untimely Death. Sure he wasn't always the best actor, though I would argue he was at the least Consistently above average, with the exception of maybe a couple films that I can kind of remember... Though I also do remember that in those cases it was definitely more about poor writing and production and not really about Duncan not doing a good or even great job. Plus, it has to be acknowledged that for a man of Duncan's size and stature to manage to avoid being typecast as "The Large Brut", " The Giant whom the Hero must face", "The Feared Gangsta Thug" or only being cast in Horror Films for his massive size and then covered in FX Makes up or a mask, it is absolutely a statement of his acting ability and range. He had a difficult role in Green Mile as he had to show vulnerability , yet more than simply Fear or Impotent Rage or Frustration due to the fact that it was Clearly racism and bias due to his massive size that intimidated the Racist Hicks in the community he lived in. Which was definitely part of the emotional stew he had to cook up. It was the fact that he was also playing someone who was feeble minded and had an obvious arrested development as a result of it, and the unbelievable amount of Abuse he suffered growing up. As his own family and community must have feared him as well. Probably not for his size, but his ability. It's likely that their religious beliefs led them to believe he had demonic powers. So he had The Emotion was coming not from frustration or fear in the way an average adult might be dealing with. It was coming from someone who had a child like perspective of things due to the retardation of his mental faculties and arrested development likely caused by childhood trauma. And he had to do it Tastefully to boot!! That is a difficult role for the most experienced of Actors!
the dark tower with so many books made in to one film was so disappointing. It would be like Peter Jackson making LOTR from 3 films in to one. You also forgot to tell of all the problems in the making of this film
Funny enough, they originally wanted him to do just that. Ironically, later they were the ones who pushed him to do the "Hobbit" as three movies when he only wanted to do two.
Why is this narrator so horrible at pronouncing celebrity names? Rob Reiner, Jeff Fahey, Idris Elba... At least have enough respect for the talent and the viewing audience to get the names' pronunciations correct.
31:03 Dude The Mangler! YES!!! The Dream Team of horror movies. Written by Stephen King, Directed by Tobe Hooper, starring Freddy Kruger & Buffalo Bill 🔥👌🏻
@@amandamarshall1204 I think I did that too also, thinking about it I might not have rented it and just recorded it or maybe it was all three over the course of many years. I would love to see it again.
Doctor Sleep is a sequal to Stephen King's mini series The Shining (1997) not the movie. I mean you could argue it's the movies sequal too but the mini series explained much more and gave you a back story to Doctor Sleep vs the movie left out too much.
Jeff fu-hay?? No my friend it's Jeff fay-he. Love the videos but if you have any doubts look that shit up. Your obviously are reading script and aren't the one who's the fan of these movies. That's why it's annoying to hear you pronounce the actors, directors, etc name's wrong. Just dating.
how can you list max overdrive and forget: . Needful Things, Tommyknockers, Golden Years, the Langoliers and, especially the Stand. Man I never realized just how big this list is... I guess in hindsight your memory of those items I mentioned is forgiven, mainly because I am slowly recalling quite a few more still.
Running man (and lawnmower man) shouldn't be on here. Running Man has the same name as the King story but that's about it. Lawnmower man has even LESS to do with the source material, heck, King had his name removed he hated it so much.
Ah, that good'ol prank that envolves the brutal killing of several animals so you can dump the blood on a unsuspected school teen. That's classic Billy.
I was about to go on a tear when you mentioned Lawnmower Man, considering King sued the studio to get his name off that one, but then you mentioned the actual story it adapted.
Makes you wonder why they called it Lawnmower Man when there is a short story by King of that name that has some scenes in common (the actual lawn mowing part). I guess it a combination of the two or something. I've never even heard of that other story. :)
Bro the editing in this. Dude re-reads like 3+ lines, Dolans Cadillac and Firestarter were the most blatant examples. So much of this list is clearly taken from wikipedia pages, probably written by youtube script writers who haven't seen the movies or read the books, which is fine. But, all the comments that are like "oh my god wow what a deeply detailed interesting list" are kinda off base. Guess it might be if you haven't seen most/all of these movies but here and there, there are definite mistakes and a few extremely vague entries or sections/reviews that are almost word for word jacked from other reviews. I still watched the whole thing, don't get me wrong, it was fine, but c'mon y'all don't jack this video off for just doing a basic recap of all of King's adaptions
Finally, someone on here with some critical thinking. The video wasn't terrible, but it was nothing special either. I like they say "every Stephen King adaptation" and the proceed to miss about half of them. The repeating line thing was also very distracting. A couple of times I thought my cat had stepped on the keyboard. It was also weird how he didn't even bother listing the cast for a few of the movies. If I were a teacher, I'd give it a C+ overall since I've seen better from this channel. This feels like a normally decent student turning in work they clearly did the night before at the last minute.
I used to know someone that looks exactly like that face on the front of the truck on maximum overdrive except for his skin wasn't green. and when I was a kid I had the vinyl record AC/DC made for this movie who Made who
Beautifully executed and very detailed, i also learned about 3-4 movies that i absolutely love that were novels by the legendary Stephen King and I never knew were 👌
Lawnmower Man doesn't belong on this list. Named after one story and "based" on another. No excuse for it. So fundamentally changed from the original story that King sued to have his name removed. It's a direct reason why there aren't more King adaptations out there. It's not a King adaptation.
Thanks for teaching me about two King adaptations I'd never heard of: IN THE TALL GRASS and 1922. Will check both of those out. My personal fave King adaptations so far? SALEM'S LOT (1979 miniseries), IT (2017), MISERY, THE MIST and THE SHINING(1980).
You should check out Stephen Kings mini series of The Shining as it's the real prequel to Doctor Sleep. The Shining from Stanley Kubrick was good as well but was a short story compaired to the mini series.
For The Shawshank Redemption , Andy said he would do the filing of the taxes for the guard who got the inheritance for 3 cold beers for each of his work mates(scene stuck in my mind)
If Arnie dresses like a biker gang member then you better Google that term. Lol Holy crap. You've obviously never seen a biker gang member. Even in the 50s they didn't look like Arnie. Smh
Would be kinda nice if the narrator did a little reserving about the ones he obviously hasn't seen, got the character names and some of the plots correct. Other than that, this was pretty entertaining.
Pet Sematary is my favourite book since a was a child. I think the fist adaptation was the most accurate. Not super famous actors, not great budget, and in 1:42 hs and they totaly naild it. The second adapatation was like "how can we make it look like the same story but with something new?, ah, lets kill the other child!!!". Total trash. And what can I say about The Dark Tower??? Lets say I made the mistake of watching it. I hope some better gets the rights for the "movies", some fan of Mr. SK, like J J Abrams.
I love 1408, it makes the room feel like a real entity, with a personality. That room is such a dick, it's kind of funny lol playing that song while fucking with him constantly, just making sure he never has an ounce of hope. Then it gives him hope, only to absolutely fucking crush it right in front of him, it's savage as fuck.
King...you are a well filmed man. Now if they would only put more of Dean R. Koontz masterpieces to film I could die a happy man, as I find his stories as good and often better than Kings are. (and no scratch your head W.T.F. endings that made me quit King quite a while ago.
It's too bad you keep using the wrong words all over the place. It'd be nice if video makers would look up words if they're not sure what they mean. It's hard to seem professional if the words you use don't make sense at all. I love your love of Stephen King, I love this list. But it's hard when the words you use are all wrong. You should have said "acclaimed," not "proclaimed", that's only one example and I'm way up to the Dark Tower.
Too bad Dark Tower was condensed into a single, crappy movie. It really could have been something special. I’d love to see an updated version of The Stand too. The old made for tv version was good
Tell me you haven't seen any of these movies or read any of these books without telling me you haven't seen any of these movies or read any of these books
Gosh this channel has quanity, quality, consistency and in-depth.
Kathy Bates was exactly how I pictured the character when I read the book!
It’s a pity lots of King stories we’re made into low budget or TV movies. Many deserve a big budget remake, like The Tommyknockers and Needful Things…
Disagree. It gave them a certain charm.
Yeah, but some of those are pretty good, if a little dated. The original The Stand miniseries was great, and so was the original Salem's Lot and It. Sometimes They Come Back (ignore the sequels) was good. I still maintain that Children of the Corn and Graveyard Shift aren't as bad as people make them out to be. The Mangler is well made. Some old TV shows like the 1985 Twilight Zone and Monsters had some interesting adaptations of his short stories, as did the recent TNT miniseries Nightmares and Dreamscapes. But you're right, many of the others are pretty blah.
How you gonna turn 400 pages of words into a movie without chopping bits out, then?
I could see that, and, if at all possible, have King do the screenplay, OR, have him CHOOSE a writer to do the screenplay. Then, let him have a hand in the editing. At least, then, it'd be as close as possible, to his vision of the story.
The original adaptation of IT got me over my fear of clowns, and I enjoyed Tommyknockers.
Stephen King one of my favorite authors. This just reminds me of how far behind I am on my reading !
Oh my gosh SAME! I used to read a book like Misery in a day or two but Its taken me two months to get half way. Can't focus lately
I mean the guy’s a class A pre-vurt….so there’s that
The list was overall good, but some of this adaptations are just awful, like Cell and The Dark Tower. Instead of those, I would have put Creepshow and Dolores Claiborne.
I doubt the author (of the video) has read much King, they seem pretty clueless
So many of these are notoriously terrible...like Lawnmower Man, but according to this vid, they are all "....definitely worth a watch!"
@@bradharrah3339 they are all worth a watch
@@wingerding that's a lie
@@wingerding Sure, if only a lesson in how not to make a movie.
Can we sacrifice all the children of the corns for one good dark tower miniseries?
I saw all but one of these movies. I know I read all of the books. My girlfriend and I waited until the green mile was consolidated into one book to read it. I read it all on Thanksgiving when I had to work a double all night shift on a very boring job. The movie came out soon after and we both saw it as soon as we could. We both cried more than once. That and Shawshank Redemption can make me do that today.
I really like the book of cujo as it tells part of the story from the dog's point of view so you end up feeling sorry for the dog
"the lawnmower man" doesn't belong this list. King had his named removed because the film just used the name of the story and had a guy with a lawnmower. i like this film but legally is not a king film.
It is tho deal with it
Rather disappointed in this list honestly. Your missing a few, IT Chapter 1 and 2 being a big one. I think Creepshow should also be on here, and you have to include the plethora of TV miniseries that he's spawned as well. Under the Dome, The Mist, The Stand, The Shining TV Adaptation ( I don't like it but King did), Rose Red, Langoliers, and Hearts in Atlantis.
Dreamcatcher is one of my favorite movies! I enjoy the aliens but even more so I love the bond between the friends and their kindness in helping Dudits. Not many people actually help the bullied.
That movie is worth it for Damien Lewis’ performance alone 👌🏻
That movie pales in comparison to the book unfortunately imo.
@@blackphillip8486 it doesn't mean I like the movie less. Two things can be true
the shining had lot of differences from novel to movie that stephen king did not like it and another tv series was made true to the novel
Dick Halleran is the head Chief?
Pretty sure you ment chef...
Shawshank Redemption, Stand by me, Thinner, Carrie, Misery, The dead zone, Cujo, Pet Sematary, The green mile, Silver Bullet.... These are the BEST adaptations of King Stories..
Dick Halloran is the head CHEF (pronounced SHEFF), NOT the head CHIEF, at the Overlook Hotel
I much prefer the movie version of the dead zone than the tv series
I preferred the tv series of “It” and Pennywise was much scarier to me.
But, I also read the book in jr high.
This was Christopher Walken's last movie role as a sympathetic figure. I really liked this movie MUCH better than the book. Got to give it to David Cronenberg, he KNOWS how to direct this genre!
One of my best friends and my band's drummer is half gypsy and trust me, they are as bad as they've been made out to be.
Unbelieveable that the fabulous Dolores Claibourne was left off this hit and miss list , some very fine acting and also very close to the novel . Tut , tut.
Agree one of my favourites
@@angelajames6460 Just bought a dvd of it the other day , was Needful things on the list ?
@@davidtemple5934 absolutely. Dolores Claibourne on dvd one I've not been able to find here in Australia Funny but The Shining is on TV now and of course I have to watch it even though actually have this one on DVD
@@angelajames6460 Hate to say this but got my copy from a second hand shop for 25p ! , which Shining is it the film or the t.v series which was closer to the original book version ? And have you seen the trailers for the remake of Firestarter , looks interesting .
@@davidtemple5934 i own the TV version of the Shining. It is awesome. I hate the Kubrick one.
Stephen King did not write the Cyber God it was written by Leonard and Gimel Everett, King did however write a short story called the Lawn mower man, but this story had nothing to do with the film, the change of title was a deliberate cash grab. When it was released King disavowed himself from it and tried unsuccessfully to have the name of the film changed to avoid confusion with his story.
Sleepwalkers is an original screen play by King, not an adaptation.
See, I never knew anything about "Cyber God" until just now. I thought they just took "Lawnmower Man" and made up another story to fill out the length. This is so much worse.
The Mist is, absolutely a must watch
Soooooo good
30:28 you said Gage 5 times in the same sentence and still said Greg 😂 that’s how I know this channel is like ms mojo and content farms.
What about Salem's Lot?
You left out the following movies:
The Langoliers
The Stand
The Tommyknockers
And IT. even tho pennywise was clear in the thumbnail
The Shining Tv movie was better.
He should've reference the version of IT from 1990 , definitely a classic
I really enjoyed Storm of The Century. Loved the way Andre Lenoge would air out everyone's dirty laundry. Classic King.
You should have put on the TV movie Shining ('97) it's so much better. It's closer too the book and a cast that actually matches the character.
I don't know why you would praise Tom hanks acting in the green mile when Michael Clark Duncan's portrayal of John Coffey is clearly the more poignant of the two
I like Tom Hnaks but I absolutely AGREE with you about Michael Clark Duncan's performance!!! He gave (John Coffee) Life and then some! RIP Michael Clark Duncan
Right fuck this guy think he is having his own opinion 🤣🤣🤣
Ikr all i was thinking “ofc hes the white one”
The Green Mile movie adaptation is unforgettable.
Not so much the usual King horror, it's more a brilliant and touching tale of fascinating characters including a mouse ....and redemption of those that 'Walk The Green Mile' to the electric chair on the sides of both good and evil.
Michael Clark Duncan (who wins an Oscar for his magnificent portrayal of the enigma that is John Coffey), the prisoner who touches your very soul.
This novel and it's movie adaption rate up there as the VERY Best of Both for King . A must see & bring your handkerchiefs.
@b 🙄😒 just stop.
Jason Lee from Dreamcatcher used to be a pro skateboarder, I owned two of his decks back in the day.
What bothers me about many King adaptations is the huge difference between book and movie. For example Running Man shares only a few superficial things with the book, like names, that is in fact a game show and the title. The Dark Tower tried (and failed imo) to compress 7 books into one movie, which is impossible. I really wanted to like that movie, since I love the DT opus, but...well.
Also, some of these movies are definitely not worth a watch, despite being praised in this video.
The original It should be in the list (Tim Curry as Pennywise is priceless) as well as Needful Things. And although not movies but mini series, I'd add Rose Red, Storm of the Century and Kingdom Hospital.
Cybergod wasn't by king and the film Lawnmower Man has nothing to do with Stephen Kings Lawnmower man in fact king sued the makers of the film
The original It was so much better. Tim Curry owned Pennywise.
I love so many of Steven kings works he’s such an amazing writer and has inspired so many amazing adaptations of his work I often try to imagine what the world would be like if he was never born, I can’t
1922 was so dark..
I did enjoy the movie.
Lawnmower man isn't supposed to be on this list. It is nothing, nothing at all like the short story. It was just someone making money off his name. The real story is nothing about computers it's about a fat guy getting naked and eating the lawn.
Dark Tower is a joke you can't cram 7 extremely long books into a 2 hour movie. You could replaced those with Mercy (2014) is based on his short story Gramma. It's loosely based but at least it's closer than Lawnmower Man. Needful Things, Delores Claiborne would of fit better.
Do a list of his other adaptions, there's lots of good work out there. Rose Red, Salem's Lot, Storm of the Century, Creepshow.....
Tales from the Darkside (both the movie and the TV show), Kingdom Hospital etc....
How many firestarter movies have there been? 2 right? Was there also a show? I think they're remaking it??
You forgot to acknowledge Michael Clarke Duncan's fantastic Acting in The Green Mile. It basically jump-started his career and shot him into near instant Superstardom. All the way up till his sad untimely Death. Sure he wasn't always the best actor, though I would argue he was at the least Consistently above average, with the exception of maybe a couple films that I can kind of remember... Though I also do remember that in those cases it was definitely more about poor writing and production and not really about Duncan not doing a good or even great job.
Plus, it has to be acknowledged that for a man of Duncan's size and stature to manage to avoid being typecast as "The Large Brut", " The Giant whom the Hero must face", "The Feared Gangsta Thug" or only being cast in Horror Films for his massive size and then covered in FX Makes up or a mask, it is absolutely a statement of his acting ability and range.
He had a difficult role in Green Mile as he had to show vulnerability , yet more than simply Fear or Impotent Rage or Frustration due to the fact that it was Clearly racism and bias due to his massive size that intimidated the Racist Hicks in the community he lived in. Which was definitely part of the emotional stew he had to cook up. It was the fact that he was also playing someone who was feeble minded and had an obvious arrested development as a result of it, and the unbelievable amount of Abuse he suffered growing up. As his own family and community must have feared him as well. Probably not for his size, but his ability. It's likely that their religious beliefs led them to believe he had demonic powers.
So he had The Emotion was coming not from frustration or fear in the way an average adult might be dealing with. It was coming from someone who had a child like perspective of things due to the retardation of his mental faculties and arrested development likely caused by childhood trauma.
And he had to do it Tastefully to boot!!
That is a difficult role for the most experienced of Actors!
the dark tower with so many books made in to one film was so disappointing. It would be like Peter Jackson making LOTR from 3 films in to one. You also forgot to tell of all the problems in the making of this film
Funny enough, they originally wanted him to do just that. Ironically, later they were the ones who pushed him to do the "Hobbit" as three movies when he only wanted to do two.
Why is this narrator so horrible at pronouncing celebrity names? Rob Reiner, Jeff Fahey, Idris Elba... At least have enough respect for the talent and the viewing audience to get the names' pronunciations correct.
Frank Darabont did some of the very best ones
31:03 Dude The Mangler! YES!!!
The Dream Team of horror movies. Written by Stephen King, Directed by Tobe Hooper, starring Freddy Kruger & Buffalo Bill 🔥👌🏻
Who loves Rose Red?
I do, I remember actually renting it and watching it in one day.
@@LibraGamesUnlimited I watched it on TV as a mini series it was so good
@@amandamarshall1204 I think I did that too also, thinking about it I might not have rented it and just recorded it or maybe it was all three over the course of many years.
I would love to see it again.
Room 1408 is one of my favorites!
Dark Tower should have been a multi season streaming series.. not a 2hr movie. It doesn't do it any justice.
Plus McConaughey kinda Trucked it...
Maximum Overdrive sucked so much... The machinegun platform on wheels is hilarious in so many ways
(The Dark Half) Sheriff Alan Pangborn is also in Needful Things :D and Gerald's Game was one of the books that actually had me anxious
Doctor Sleep is a sequal to Stephen King's mini series The Shining (1997) not the movie. I mean you could argue it's the movies sequal too but the mini series explained much more and gave you a back story to Doctor Sleep vs the movie left out too much.
The character's name is Bill Denbrough (DEN-BRO, NOT DEN-BRA)
Jeff fu-hay?? No my friend it's Jeff fay-he. Love the videos but if you have any doubts look that shit up. Your obviously are reading script and aren't the one who's the fan of these movies. That's why it's annoying to hear you pronounce the actors, directors, etc name's wrong. Just dating.
how can you list max overdrive and forget: . Needful Things, Tommyknockers, Golden Years, the Langoliers and, especially the Stand. Man I never realized just how big this list is... I guess in hindsight your memory of those items I mentioned is forgiven, mainly because I am slowly recalling quite a few more still.
Running man (and lawnmower man) shouldn't be on here. Running Man has the same name as the King story but that's about it.
Lawnmower man has even LESS to do with the source material, heck, King had his name removed he hated it so much.
For that matter if you were going to include the shining it should have been Kings version (he famously disliked Kubrick's take)
Ah, that good'ol prank that envolves the brutal killing of several animals so you can dump the blood on a unsuspected school teen. That's classic Billy.
Did I miss the part where they actually killed the animals? Cause I thought they just swiped the blood from a slaughterhouse
@@Cazz8203 I was going to say that. I'm pretty sure they got it from a local slaughterhouse.
Salem's Lot the Tommyknockers Dolores Claiborne insomnia this guy Miss so many of them
I was about to go on a tear when you mentioned Lawnmower Man, considering King sued the studio to get his name off that one, but then you mentioned the actual story it adapted.
Makes you wonder why they called it Lawnmower Man when there is a short story by King of that name that has some scenes in common (the actual lawn mowing part). I guess it a combination of the two or something. I've never even heard of that other story. :)
It would be good if your list had any critical sense and not just sucked up to the movies you're mentioning.
IMO It starring Tim Curry was much better than the remake. It's the same as the original miniseries The Stand was better than the remake.
Pennywise with Tim Curry is Best
Bro the editing in this. Dude re-reads like 3+ lines, Dolans Cadillac and Firestarter were the most blatant examples.
So much of this list is clearly taken from wikipedia pages, probably written by youtube script writers who haven't seen the movies or read the books, which is fine. But, all the comments that are like "oh my god wow what a deeply detailed interesting list" are kinda off base. Guess it might be if you haven't seen most/all of these movies but here and there, there are definite mistakes and a few extremely vague entries or sections/reviews that are almost word for word jacked from other reviews. I still watched the whole thing, don't get me wrong, it was fine, but c'mon y'all don't jack this video off for just doing a basic recap of all of King's adaptions
Finally, someone on here with some critical thinking. The video wasn't terrible, but it was nothing special either. I like they say "every Stephen King adaptation" and the proceed to miss about half of them. The repeating line thing was also very distracting. A couple of times I thought my cat had stepped on the keyboard. It was also weird how he didn't even bother listing the cast for a few of the movies. If I were a teacher, I'd give it a C+ overall since I've seen better from this channel. This feels like a normally decent student turning in work
they clearly did the night before at the last minute.
I used to know someone that looks exactly like that face on the front of the truck on maximum overdrive except for his skin wasn't green. and when I was a kid I had the vinyl record AC/DC made for this movie who Made who
Salem's Lot Tommyknockers Dolores Claiborne
Who's been in the most king movies? David Morse? Thomas Jane? King himself of course but besides him?
Beautifully executed and very detailed, i also learned about 3-4 movies that i absolutely love that were novels by the legendary Stephen King and I never knew were 👌
Lawnmower Man doesn't belong on this list. Named after one story and "based" on another. No excuse for it. So fundamentally changed from the original story that King sued to have his name removed. It's a direct reason why there aren't more King adaptations out there. It's not a King adaptation.
People under the stairs is a classic
Must watch!
Absolutely right, but it's not a Stephen King adaptation.
Christine ❤
The mangler it brings back memory. 😁
35 Adaptations and Sleepwalkers
Thanks for teaching me about two King adaptations I'd never heard of: IN THE TALL GRASS and 1922. Will check both of those out. My personal fave King adaptations so far? SALEM'S LOT (1979 miniseries), IT (2017), MISERY, THE MIST and THE SHINING(1980).
You should check out Stephen Kings mini series of The Shining as it's the real prequel to Doctor Sleep. The Shining from Stanley Kubrick was good as well but was a short story compaired to the mini series.
@@brickonyou - I have seen it, back when it first aired, but have forgotten much of it. I do remember liking it at the time. Maybe time for a rewatch.
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Just read the books they’re so much better
Salem’s Lot…. The stand
Long live Stehen King for all these amazing movies that were inspired by his incredible work.
What about Desperation!??
I've been a fan of Stephen King since 2006/2007. I'm reading Lisey's Story right now, so far it's... Ok.
I read that.. Couldn’t put it down.
For The Shawshank Redemption , Andy said he would do the filing of the taxes for the guard who got the inheritance for 3 cold beers for each of his work mates(scene stuck in my mind)
What about "Pet Sematary?" (Original)
They covered it around 29 minutes in. Did you not watch the video?
If Arnie dresses like a biker gang member then you better Google that term. Lol Holy crap. You've obviously never seen a biker gang member. Even in the 50s they didn't look like Arnie. Smh
The scariest monster in The Mist? Mrs. Carmody. Oof.
Agreed
Would be kinda nice if the narrator did a little reserving about the ones he obviously hasn't seen, got the character names and some of the plots correct. Other than that, this was pretty entertaining.
Just casually skips over some of SK's best adaptations...
Tommyknockers
Delores Claiborne
Needful things
Creepshow
30:27 Gage*, not Greg
Stand by me is definitely one of my favorite adaptations of kings work 💝
Right next to doctor sleep mike did a wonderful job
Look. If you're going to be lazy and use AI, can you at least show effort through proofreading?
You missed 2006s Desperation starring Ron Perlman Steve Weber and Tom Skerrit.
Stephen King made alot of cult classics because "THE RUNNING MAN" has to be one of mine all time fave movies to watch.
Take a shot whenever the story is set in Maine or the phrase "of the same name." Is uttered.
Pet Sematary is my favourite book since a was a child. I think the fist adaptation was the most accurate. Not super famous actors, not great budget, and in 1:42 hs and they totaly naild it. The second adapatation was like "how can we make it look like the same story but with something new?, ah, lets kill the other child!!!". Total trash. And what can I say about The Dark Tower??? Lets say I made the mistake of watching it. I hope some better gets the rights for the "movies", some fan of Mr. SK, like J J Abrams.
I love 1408, it makes the room feel like a real entity, with a personality. That room is such a dick, it's kind of funny lol playing that song while fucking with him constantly, just making sure he never has an ounce of hope. Then it gives him hope, only to absolutely fucking crush it right in front of him, it's savage as fuck.
I'll never forgive them for destroying the Gunslinger series with this Chopped up crammed together garbage.
King...you are a well filmed man. Now if they would only put more of Dean R. Koontz masterpieces to film I could die a happy man, as I find his stories as good and often better than Kings are. (and no scratch your head W.T.F. endings that made me quit King quite a while ago.
It's too bad you keep using the wrong words all over the place. It'd be nice if video makers would look up words if they're not sure what they mean. It's hard to seem professional if the words you use don't make sense at all. I love your love of Stephen King, I love this list. But it's hard when the words you use are all wrong. You should have said "acclaimed," not "proclaimed", that's only one example and I'm way up to the Dark Tower.
Too bad Dark Tower was condensed into a single, crappy movie. It really could have been something special. I’d love to see an updated version of The Stand too. The old made for tv version was good
not bad
Dude thanks for reminding me of dolans Cadillac. I loved that short story.
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Graveyard Shift doesn't have a chapter. Number 32
Tell me you haven't seen any of these movies or read any of these books without telling me you haven't seen any of these movies or read any of these books
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank redemption was not a nóvel ! It was a short story.
The Running Man and Lawnmower Man are definitely the worst adaptation, more name than substance
Not sure , but I believe the running man was written under his Sutter name Richard Bachman.
The host of this might be the only person on record who had anything nice to say about the Dark Tower movie adaptation.