So we’ll leave those completist lists for other folks. Life is really too short for Dolan’s Cadillac. Originally, we’d planned to do a comprehensive worst-to-best ranked list, but the “ugly” proved to be too much for us – the last 10 years alone seem to have brought a wave of adaptations that run from questionable to “Unclean! Unclean!” There’s rewatching The Mangler, and then there’s straight-up masochism. evil clown epic It coming on September 8th – the King movie remains a bankable category unto itself.Īnd like any genre, there is the good, the bad, and the ugly. And with not one but two big films coming out in the next month – the long-awaited blockbuster take on The Dark Tower hitting theaters on Friday and a reimagining of the kids v. So many of his now-canonical horror novels, as well as his non–spooky-story output, have been fodder for filmmakers far and wide the phrase “a Stephen King movie” carries with it it’s own expectations, parameters and conventions. He probably didn’t think: I will also eventually end up one of the big bestselling authors of the next few decades, a highly decorated man of letters, a brand-name – and a one-man cottage industry for the movies.

Back in 1973, when Stephen King sold his first book Carrie to a publisher (the manuscript of which he’d originally thrown away, and was rescued by his wife Tabitha), the up-and-coming, already published author might have thought: I may actually be able to make it as a professional writer.

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