Stephen King fan? Here are the top 3 movies inspired by the master of horror!

Rob Savage’s Croque-mitaine is out this Wednesday May 31st in our darkrooms. Adapted from Stephen King’s Horror Story, first published in 1973 in American Magazine rider, The feature film is hosted by Sophie Thatcher, Chris Messina and Vivienne Lyra Blair.

Sadie, a young high school student, and her little sister Sawyer are still dealing with their mother’s recent death. Torn by his own pain, their father Will, a therapist by profession, does not give them the support or the love they try to ask of him. When a desperate patient (Davit Dastmalchiani) suddenly shows up at their home asking for help, he is introduced to a terrifying creature that preys on families and feeds on their greatest suffering.

Not for children under 12, Le Croque-mitaine presents a folklore-inspired monster that feeds on our fears. The film plays on primal fears, such as the fear of the dark or the fear of the famous closet monster. An effective feature film where jump scares follow each other.

Considered the master of modern horror, Stephen King has written more than 60 novels and many of them have been adapted into films, including “Carrie, It, The Dead Zone, Cujo, Christine, Seametier, Misfortune“or”trouble“and”the fog“.

But what are the 3 best adaptations of Stephen King novels? Here are the top 3 according to AlloCiné’s audience ratings, and it’s the two films set in a prison world that monopolize that rating.

Frank Darabont’s The Green Line (2000) – 4.6/5

Not surprisingly, La Ligne Verte ranks first among the best King adaptations with an average rating of 4.6/5 stars from 107,815 viewers.

Released in 2000, Frank Darabont’s feature film stars Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan, David Morse, Gary Sinise, Bonnie Hunt, Sam Rockwell and James Cromwell.

The feature film, forbidden for children under 12, is not a horror film, but a fantasy detective film. Paul Edgecombe (Hanks), a centenarian resident of a nursing home, is haunted by his memories. Warden of Cold Mountain Penitentiary in 1935, he was responsible for ensuring that capital executions ran smoothly by trying to mitigate the last moments of the condemned. Among them was a colossus named John Coffey (Michael Clarke Coffey), accused of raping and murdering two young girls. Intrigued by this sincere and shy man with magical gifts, Edgecombe forms a very strong bond with him.

La Ligne verte is Frank Darabont’s second feature film after Les Evades, also adapted from a novel. Stephen King. The filmmaker established himself with a short film adaptation of the story of the Master of Suffering.A woman in a roomThe author grants film schools the right to adapt his stories into short films for a nominal fee of $1, provided they send him a copy.

Stephen King admired the quality of Darabont’s court. To date, the director has adapted 3 works of the American author to the big screen: La Ligne Verte, Les Evadés and The Mist. 3 films that are among King’s best film adaptations.

A script written together with the book

In 1994, after collaborating on Les Evadés, friends Stephen King brought the story of La Ligne Verte to Darabont, who immediately wanted to adapt it. Except that the novelist had not yet written the book.

The latter chooses to publish its story in 6 episodes. Therefore, Frank Darabont began writing the script for La Ligne verte after the publication of the first part, entitled “two dead little girls”But he had to wait for the completion of the other 5 parts to continue writing his film.

Frank Darabont’s The Escapees (1995) – 4.5/5

With 4.5/5 stars from 60965 ratings, runaways Frank Darabont’s first feature film is the second most popular Stephen King adaptation by AlloCiné viewers.

The movie is inspired by the story”Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption“, published in the August 1982 collection ofdifferent seasonsThis story of survival and hope was ranked #9 on the magazine’s 2014 list of Stephen King Readers’ Favorites. Rolling Stone.

The feature film directed by Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins tells the story of Red (Free), who has been sentenced to life in prison, and Andy Dufresne (Robbins), a banker who is wrongly convicted of murder. The two men form an unexpected friendship that will last more than twenty years. Together they discover hope as the ultimate means of survival. Under terrible conditions and under the constant threat of violence, two lifers reclaim their souls and find freedom in their hearts.

Business failure

If the film was a commercial failure when it was released in cinemas, over the years it has acquired the status of a cult film. Escapees is listed at number 72 on the American Film Institute’s list of 100 Greatest Films and has been selected by the National Film Preservation Board for preservation by the United States Library of Congress for its “cultural, historical, or aesthetic significance”.

With 7 Oscar nominations, the film is much more than a prison film. For the director, the prison is a metaphor for life. At the time of the film’s release, he said:In life, people are prisoners of themselves, their daily life, a life in which they hold themselves out of weakness or habit and move away from what was their dream, goal, ideal. The theme of the film is friendship and how it transforms two people who learn to trust, hope and whose determination transforms their lives.”

Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980) – 4.3/5

If Internet users give it an average of 4.3/5 stars for 55236 ratings and Stanley Kubrick’s film is considered a masterpiece, the film adaptation of the novel.Shine on, child of light“It wasn’t voiced Stephen King...

The author discovered that the 1980 feature film, co-written by Diane Johnson and Kubrick, betrayed his novel, which was published in 1977.

For the author, the filmmaker really ignored the themes of family breakdown and alcoholism in the novel. So much so that Stephen King himself wrote and prepared a new version in the form of a mini-series. Consisting of 3 parts, The Shining: The Corridors of Fear was released in 1997, but failed to eclipse Kubrick’s film.

In The Shining, Jack Torrance, a writer suffering from a loss of inspiration, is hired as a winter keeper at the Overlook, a large isolated hotel in Colorado. He settled there with his wife, Wendy, and son, Dennis, a gifted medium. While Jack makes no progress in his book and his son is increasingly haunted by terrifying visions, the writer discovers the inn’s sinister secrets and gradually descends into a form of homicidal madness where he treats his own family…

A film that entered popular culture

Prohibited for children under 12, this film, starring a transcendent Jack Nicholson, an impressive Shelley Duvall and a young Danny Lloyd, celebrated generations of viewers, and several of its scenes entered popular culture (admit it, the colors of the hotels scare you) and are repeated as winks in many films (in particular, Binoculars and elevator blood spill scene).

In 2019, The Shining received a sequel called Doctor Sleep. Directed by Mike Flanagan, who is responsible for The Haunting of Hill House, Bly Manor and Les Sermons de Minuit, the feature film allows us to find Danny, here played by Ivan McGregor.

As an adult, Danny is still traumatized by what he experienced as a child. But when he meets Abra, a daring teenager with psychic gifts, his old demons resurface. Because a young girl who realizes that Dan has the same power as her needs his help.

This film is adapted from Stephen King’s 2013 novel, and the latter liked the adaptation this time (rated 3.6/5 by AlloCiné viewers).