Stephen King built an empire on the ordinary meeting the awful, and every working writer can learn from how. This tag collects reviews and essays on King’s books, their adaptations, and the craft lessons inside his enormous shelf.
1970sJune 6, 2026
Tobe Hooper made one of the finest TV horror productions ever, with a silent Nosferatu-style vampire and unforgettable scares. Salem's Lot earns its 7.5 as one of the finest pieces of television horror ever made and proof that the right…
1980s
1970sMay 19, 2026
Brian De Palma's 1976 King adaptation. Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, John Travolta supporting.
2010sMay 19, 2026
Andrés Muschietti adapts the first half of King's novel about children battling a shape-shifting evil in 1980s Derry, Maine. It is Andrés Muschietti's 2017 American supernatural horror film adapting the first half of Stephen King's 1986 novel, depicting a group…
1980sMay 19, 2026
A family discovers an ancient burial ground behind their Maine home that returns the dead to life, but wrong. Pet Sematary is Mary Lambert's 1989 American horror film adapted from Stephen King's 1983 novel, depicting a Boston physician who moves…
1990sMay 19, 2026
Misery is Rob Reiner's 1990 American psychological-thriller film adapted from Stephen King's 1987 novel, depicting a romance novelist who crashes his car in a Colorado snowstorm and is rescued by his self-described number-one fan, who imprisons him in her isolated…
1980sMay 19, 2026
Rob Reiner's 1986 Stephen King novella adaptation. Phoenix, Wheaton, Feldman, O'Connell.
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