Yeah, I thought it over carefully and reached the same conclusion. Don’t think I’ve seen Children of the Corn though.
I think the short story version of “The Mist” is better known than the original novella, and the movie isn’t terrible. Faint praise, but that means it’s better than most.
ETA I see that there was also a miniseries…I was thinking of the Thomas Jane film, haven’t seen the other one.
1408 is pretty good.
Okay, I’ll concede that one! I didn’t see it, but heard it was decent.
I’ll also add Apt Pupil to the list of good SK adaptations. I don’t hear it mentioned much in SK threads but I think it’s pretty chilling. Ian McKellen as a former Nazi is quite the performance.
That one I did see, and thought it was all right, but Apt Pupil is a novella.
Shawshank Redemption (based on the Stephen King short novel “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption”) is an excellent film, but I agree other film adaptations of King’s work is disappointing. I’m particularly disappointed in all the adaptations of “It”, which still ranks as the scariest book I’ve ever read.
Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me are the two outstanding films I meant, and Apt Pupil the “halfway decent” one. The film adaptation of the fourth novella in the collection, “The Breathing Method” was in production limbo last time I checked but apart from the accident scene is less interesting than the other three.
Well, if we’re doing novella adaptations, I’d add “The Langoliers”, which is cheesy fun.
I forgot about The Green Mile, another great film.
I’d consider The Green Mile a full-length novel. It’s when they take a short story of only a few pages and try to stretch the dickens out of it, that they produce a crap movie.
I would hesitate to claim it’s great (I think it undermines itself by giving away the fates of the main characters in the first few minutes) and yet for some reason I really liked the film Hearts in Atlantis which is based on another King novella.
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Very difficult to imagine this story being stretched into a full-length movie.
I read each serialized segment of it when it was being released. It’s definitely a novel. Strangely, just yesterday I was in a full-blown bookstore(Barnes & Nobles) and they had a copy of the entire book bound together, something I had not seen, but makes a lot of sense. It’s a lot shorter than I realized when I was reading it monthly(?) or so.
Yeah, I have it as the separate small books also! Spilled some Windex on one of them, but hopefully they’ll still be valuable collector’s items some day… 
Perhaps you could have them signed, “I did this - Stephen King”
The Lost City on Paramount+, Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum. Okay, I was bored and thought “how bad can it be”. Pretty bad, as it turns out. It had some okay scenes, but the whole subplot with the agent was lame, and Oscar Nunez must be desperate for cash to embarrass himself like that. Brad Pitt might have saved this, but he turned out to be a cameo. Avoid.
The Lost World (1960)
Movie adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel about an eccentric scientist claiming to have discovered a land which contains living species such as dinosaurs and other creatures understood to have been extinct as well as bizarre plants and vegetation. He quite naturally is ridiculed and besmirched but doubles down on his claim by leading a small expedition group to prove it. Very enjoyable movie. Obviously with these old sci-fi adventure movies the effects are extremely amateur compared to the technology at the disposal of movie makers today. But the dialogue, little subplots among the characters and the set they created is quite impressive still. Jill St John stars in this film. Thought she died years ago but I’m wrong! She is still around at 81 years old.
Just watched Lincoln last night. I was expecting it to drag some – especially since it’s such a well known story – but it kept my interest more than I expected. I especially like Tommy Lee Jones’s and Sally Field’s performances.
I liked that movie when it was released. How accurate is it to anything we know from history, though?