Ive seen The Shining, Misery, Apt pupil and they were pretty good.

I know he's written alot of books that have been turned into films, could anyone reccomend any others worth seeing?

Carrie, Misery, Shawshank, and The Shining would be the stars. There's a pretty good tv movie of Salem's Lot that stars Starsky and Hutch's David Soul.

Shawshank Redemption is really good imo. The Green Mile as I recall stayed true to the books.

Shawshank Redemption and it's not even close imo.

The Dead Zone is surprisingly decent. And it's another excuse to see Christopher Walken.

The dark tower....if and when it get's made

The DeadZone is very good. I also thought Cujo did a surprisingly good job of scaring the crap out of me.

The mini-series to The Stand and It are also decent. And the Langoliers was also really good until the very end....incredibly creepy.

I forgot about that, David Cronenberg! I liked that.

I really liked the book Pet Sematary, but I didn't like the movie very much, kind of a B movie. The book Pet Sematary stands with The Stand as the 2 very best Stephen King books, in my opinion.

I liked Pet Semetary until the toddler started going on a killing spree - that was laughably bad.

Yes, I agree with that. All from Stephen King's golden age.

What a yarn The Stand was, and they did it well for tv. I liked Laura San Giacomo as the bad girl. She was really good on Just Shoot Me, an underrated sitcom.

Yeah that was horrible. I was a little kid when I saw that and all I could think of was kicking that baby's ass.

Stand By Me - although I've read the book, I quite enjoy this movie when I watch it.

I tried watching The Stand solely for Molly Ringwald, but I didn't make it. Not enough Molly Ringwald. It seemed decent though, I'll finish it one day.

Also, Langoliers was lolbad.

I don't agree - the situation the principals found themselves in was creepy and mysterious and hooked me completely. It was only when they discovered the reason for their predicament in the end did it fall apart.

Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile and The Shining IMO

I agree, when I watched it had no idea was a King novel just caught it late at night and enjoyed it alot, some good actors in it too with David Morse who has been in many of his adaptaions.

I liked many people have said here, so I will just bring up Christine which for a story about a possesed car was actually quite good. And the mini series of it scared me when I was younger.

The best is Stand by Me, just a great movie.

here's the list

The great:

1976 - Carrie
1980 - The Shining
1986 - Stand By Me
1990 - Misery
1994 - The Shawshank Redemption
1995 - Dolores Claiborne
1999 - The Green Mile
2002 - The Dead Zone (TV Series)

The good:

1979 - Salem's Lot
1982 - Creepshow (Five short films: "Father's Day," "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill," "Something to Tide You Over," "The Crate," and "They're Creeping Up On You")
1983 - Cujo
1983 - The Dead Zone
1983 - Christine
1987 - A Return to Salem's Lot
1989 - Pet Sematary
1990 - It (TV mini-series)
1991 - Golden Years (TV miniseries)
1993 - The Dark Half
1993 - Needful Things
1993 - The Tommyknockers (miniseries)
1994 - The Stand (miniseries)
1995 - The Langoliers (miniseries)
1997 - The Shining (TV miniseries)
1997 - The Night Flier (HBO Movie)
1998 - Apt Pupil
2001 - Hearts in Atlantis
2002 - Carrie (TV movie remake)
2004 - Salem's Lot (TV miniseries)
2007 - 1408


The mediocre:

1984 - Children of the Corn
1984 - Firestarter
1985 - Cat's Eye (Three short films: "Quitters, Inc.," "The Ledge," and "The General")
1985 - Silver Bullet
1987 - Creepshow 2 (Three short films: "Old Chief Wood'n'head," "The Raft," and "The Hitchhiker")
1987 - The Running Man
1991 - Sometimes They Come Back
1992 - Sleepwalkers
1995 - Stephen King's Nightshift Collection
1996 - Thinner
2002 - Rose Red (TV miniseries)
2004 - Secret Window
2006 - Desperation (TV miniseries)
2006 - Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the stories of Stephen King
2007 - The Mist

The truly bad:

1986 - Maximum Overdrive
1990 - Graveyard Shift
1995 - The Mangler
1997 - Trucks (TV Remake of Maximum Overdrive)
1999 - The Rage: Carrie 2
2003 - Dreamcatcher

Thanks everyone for the input, will make sure i check out those films.

Stand by me is great...obviously the others ppl listed as well

I have yet to see the 2nd half of The Langoliers. I really want to see it, but I can't find it anywhere for free.

The Green Mile, Shawshank, Stand by Me
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Seemed like a fun B movie to me.

There were some like It and The stand that I felt like coulda been awesome but seeing that they were TV movies/series were shortchanged. Although It was still pretty cool.

yes, just figured out the name of the actor i was thinking of:

i loved reading desperation and thought it could make a great movie with the right cast. while reading, i immediately thought a younger Joe Don Baker was a perfect look for Collie Entragian:

My God I'm getting old. The last Stephen King book I read from cover to cover was Gerald's Game which I was kind of meh on. I remember starting but never finishing Delores Clairborne and that was kind of the end of King for me. I'm not sure if it's because King's writing wasn't as good or if I just grew out of him but, for my enjoyment, nothing he's done since can match his Carrie-Needful Things run (actually I could end this at The Tommyknockers but I did enjoy The Dark Half and Needful things enough to extend the run).

One movie I'd like to see made is Cycle of the Werewolf although I'm not sure if the book is actually as good as I remember it to be. It's been a while.

I always envisioned Clint Eastwood as Roland but he may be too old to pull it off now. For those of you who haven't read the series you are missing out.

I think the 4th book in the series would actually make a decent movie by itself.