Movie on Amazon and Amazon UK, series on Shudder, Amazon and Amazon UKĪvailable on Amazon and Amazon UK The Dead Zone (1983) / (2002–2007) Look out for an early Ted Danson appearance too! Horror streaming service Shudder recently launched a series inspired by the movie. More fun than truly scary, Creepshow is still a blast and even includes King himself in the cast as the ultimate redneck. Romero on an anthology of grisly EC Comics-inspired tales. King’s first produced screenplay was a collaboration with legendary horror director George A. The film still holds up as a sustained exercise in dread, featuring a performance for the ages by Jack Nicholson as the doomed caretaker of the Overlook Hotel.Īvailable on Amazon and Amazon UK Creepshow (1982/2019) One of King’s all-time classics was turned into one of the greatest horror movies of all time by Stanley Kubrick. A remake - also a four-hour miniseries - followed in 2004.Īvailable on Amazon and Amazon UK The Shining (1980) The two-part, 4-hour (with commercials) miniseries compressed the book but still featured a number of effective and chilling sequences. King’s second novel and first masterpiece, about vampires overrunning a small Maine town, also became the basis of the author’s first foray into TV. Followed by less impressive remakes in 2002 (a TV movie) and 2013 (a theatrical release).ġ976 version: Amazon and Amazon UK, 2002 version: Netflix, 2013 version: Amazon and Amazon UK The 1976 film starring Sissy Spacek as a young girl whose psychokinetic fury is unleashed by relentless high school bullying was the first King adaptation (of his first published novel) and still one of the best.
But we’re satisfied that this is a King list fans can easily binge for weeks on end - whether you’re trapped by a raging snowstorm in an empty hotel or locked in your house due to an apocalyptic pandemic. Your mileage may vary, and you may want to dig deeper for a few favorites we’ve left out. We’ve curated that list down to a manageable three dozen or so, both big and small screen, that are 1) all available for streaming and 2) significant or notable in some way. Knock off the nine Children of the Corn sequels and the two additional Mangler movies (which, c’mon, none of those are making anyone’s “best of King” list), and you’ve still got a significant bounty of King-inspired content to plow through, even if not all of them are exactly top-tier fare. By our estimate, there are some 87 different theatrical movies, TV or streaming movies, TV series and limited series based on the works of Stephen King.
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