(CBS News)Under his own name or pseudonyms, Stephen King has authored dozens of books since the early 1970s, mostly tales of horror, fantasy and the macabre, or of characters oddly out-of-place with their environments. In this web-exclusive, extended interview with correspondent Anthony Mason,...
Great job Kickin’ It Old School (@oldschool80s)!! Maximum Overdrive was a 1986 movie based on Stephen King’s short story, Trucks from his first collection of short stories, Night Shift. King also directed the movie. AC/DC provided the soundtrack for the movie, which was the Who Mad...
When writing the novel, King certainly did his research on the horrific virus and how it works, which is also mirrored by the film’s portrayal. However, that’s not the only circumstance that makes this story plausible or relatable. The movie also effectively sets up a perfect storm of ...
This was made back when horror anthologies were all the rage, and King was at the center of them. The gimmick here: There’s one cat that connects all three stories, two based off Night Shift stories and one written for the film by King. The biggest star at the time was Drew Barrymor...
he wrote a column for Entertainment Weekly. By 2007, Marvel Comics was publishing comic books based on King's Dark Tower series. In 2009, he published "Ur," a novella written for the launch of the 2nd generation Kindle reader. Following a serious accident in 2002, King took a lengthy bre...
The series is eight books and one novella long, telling the tale of a sprawling battle between good and evil that takes place across multiple worlds, with a huge cast of awesome characters, one of the best endings King has ever written, and the mysterious Dark Tower at the very centre of...
However, The Regulators gets highly removed from reality after that, with echoes of The Twilight Zone’s “It’s a Good Life.” Sensitive material from King books has been handled well (think the opening of Mr. Mercedes); this one just needs the right hand, preferably as a miniseries (...
It's pretty easy to guess why the script-writers decided to leave this one out. After the kids have defeated Pennywise in the book, Bev has sex with each of the boys in the Losers' Club in turn. The scene sounds incredibly weird when it's written out bluntly like that, but really ...
I liked it, not as much as the book of course but it has some of the ideas about friendship the book has. Other aspect of life in the living of these young people are good exposed in the movie made just in a different way as the book it was written. ...
and don't forget to check out The Best Movies Based on Stephen King Books to see where these chilling horror stories rank up against some of King's best adaptations of all time, and then check out The Scariest Stephen King Books to see what could be next in line for a spine-tingling ...