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STEPHEN KING - The best and worst adaptions of his work.
There have been many Stephen King films made into film adaptions and a surprising amount of them have delivered. These are my choices for the best and the worst.
1980 The Shining
Quite literally, one of the scariest films ever made, the film directed by Stanley Kubrick and lensed by John Alcott, fresh off of Barry Lyndon, The Shining brought him the Oscar. Jack Torrance interviews for a job at the isolated Overlook Hotel where he plans to write his novel while working at the hotel but instead, goes completely mad.
The most chilling scene for me is not the legendary “Here’s Johnny!” but when his wife, Wendy, played by Shelley Duvall sees the novel he’s been working on, a page in the typewriter. The page is just repetitions of a single sentence, “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”. She then sees that Jack’s entire manuscript is more of the same.
Kubrick is a master during this sequence, pioneering the use of the steadicam and staying wide open the entire time whereas most filmmakers would close in and claustrophize the frame. The vast airiness of the room and chillling low synth undercurrent score works you to the edge. It is not until Duvall approaches the typewriter and we get a startling Close Up of the words on paper, and then an extreme low angle close up from the point of view of the typewriter follows.
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The Mist is based on the 1980 novella by Stephen King. The film is written and directed by Frank Darabont, who had previously adapted Stephen King’s The Shawshank Redemption (1994)and The Green Mile (1999).
Following a violent thunderstorm, a small town community comes under vicious attack from creatures prowling in a thick and unnatural mist. Local rumors point to an experiment called “The Arrowhead Project” conducted at a nearby top-secret military base, but questions as to the origins of the deadly vapor are secondary to the group’s overall chances for survival. Retreating to a local supermarket, the survivors must face-off against each other before taking a united stand against an enemy they cannot even see.
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