We’re still living in the golden age of Stephen King adaptations, and it’s now a running joke about how hit-and-miss each TV show or movie actually is. For every excellent one, like 2025’s The Long Walk, there’s at least one disappointing one, like 2017’s half-hearted attempt at The Dark Tower. Unsurprisingly, many of the best King adaptations also stray outside outright horror, as it’s proven incredibly difficult to translate some of King’s most spine-chilling elements from page to screen.

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