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You might know Stephen King for his unbelievable tilt of amazing books that have been turn into some of the most successful and highly regarded films of all time . These are often in the horror musical style — The Shining , It , Carrie — but also move into the world of uncoiled - up cinematic excellency — support By Me , The Green Mile , and , of course , The Shawshank Redemption .
Obviously , it is n’t all good news for King . Some of his work , the short history , in particular , have had less than telling big - screen adaptation . We ’ve used IMDb to order the worst adaptations of Stephen King ’s stories around .
A Good Marriage
The original version ofA Good Marriageis a comparatively late work from King . It appears in his 2010 collection of novelette , Full Dark , No Stars , and tells the narrative of a " good marriage . " Of course , in true Stephen King style , there is a twist very early on . Darcy presently finds out her husband is obsessed with sadomasochism and may well be a successive killer .
It ’s an interesting basis for a film , but King himself took on the challenge of write the screenplay , which rarely goes well . The film ended up a letdown in comparison to the novella .
Mercy
Another recent film , but this sentence dig late into the recess of Stephen King ’s production . Mercyis an adjustment of King ’s 1984 short storyGramma , though it takes its motif with a caryopsis of salt and allows itself to search them freely without too much commitment . The universal premiss of a grandmother with sinister enchantress powers is there , but not a pot else is keep on .
Perhaps this was n’t the good estimate in the world , because the film has been regarded reasonably poorly ever since its unmediated - to - DVD freeing . Its got Carl fromThe walk Deadin it , though .
Quicksilver Highway
This is an interesting adaptation because it merges the oeuvre of two author into one pic . His short storyChattery Teethis merged intoThe Body Politicby Clive Barker , and , in bout , made into a comedy repugnance by director Mick Garris . The resultant film stars Christopher Lloyd as a showman who first tells the story ofChattery Teeth , thenThe Body Politic . As such , the pic is basically three strangely unrelated separated short , and none of them have much of an impact .
Graveyard Shift
You ca n’t really expect a film that start out off with a pun to be specially impressive . Can you call back of one ? DoesShaun Of The Deadcount ? Anyway , this 1990 adaptation is base on Stephen King ’s 1970 short story of the same name and follows the escapades of a unknown , unseen murderous creature .
Despite somehow bringing in a rather okay box position performance , the film was a critical failure and has been pan fairly much across the board .
The Lawnmower Man
While most adaptations of King ’s study are done with his approving — and sometimes even participation — The Lawnmower Mandoesn’t quite have the same well-disposed vibe . Brett Leonard steal King ’s story , a sci - fi horror about a gardener who is experimented on , and even tried to name the filmStephen King ’s The Lawnmower Manbefore King successfully litigate and had his name removed from the venture . This was probably a wise move because the film performed awfully .
The Mangler
For any writer , having just one story from your ingathering turned into a pic must be a dream make out true . For Stephen King , it ’s just another Clarence Day at the place . The Mangleris base on the forgetful story of the same name , take from his collectionThe Night Shift , which is whereGraveyard Shiftwas also print .
critic regarded the film as ridiculous , both disregarding the motion picture itself and the story of King ’s original work . Despite this , it somehow managed to spawn two sequels , which were somehow even worse .
Cell
It ’s impressive for a film starring Samuel L. Jackson and John Cusack to land this high up on a lean of the " worst " of anything , butCellmanages it . The premiss is pretty harebrained to get with , effectively turn everyone with a prison cell phone into a slayer . However , the frightening direction of Todd Williams combined with the curse of the King - pen screenplay cartel to create a celluloid that even its co - stars ca n’t pay off .
Trucks
RememberMaximum Overdrive ? The only film Stephen King ever direct and the film that made him vow to never direct again . For some cause , he make up one’s mind that the story he want to fetch to the big screen was about homicidal trucks . Okay …
The 1997 filmTrucksdecided to adapt that same story , this fourth dimension go out King out of the originative process and AC / DC off of the soundtrack . As you may require , the solvent were fundamentally the same , with critics and audience panning the lunacy of the story and its writ of execution across the board .
Children Of The Corn
Despite being known as jolly much the worst Stephen King adjustment of all time , tike Of The Cornspawned a franchise of ten films . Ten . For your information , all ten of those appear in the IMDb listing of bad Stephen King adaptations , but only the first one is based on literal King material , so , here we are . The basic premise of the moving-picture show and the short story that inspired it is that a non - forcible entity forces children to remove all of the adults in their town to get a good corn harvesting . Sounds strange , is strange . Sounds bad , is bad .
The Devil’s Gift
The Devil ’s Gifttops our leaning of worstStephen Kingadaptations by quite a blanket leeway . Interestingly , the film does n’t attach the name of King to its universe in any way whatsoever , and , consider how poorly it was received , he is probably rather glad . What it does do , however , is slip his storyThe Monkeyalmost greenback - for - note .
Every now and again , a account might end up being standardized to one that already exists through a genuine accident . This one is far too like to be a coincidence , so we ’re counting it .
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