Thursday Thirteen

Thirteen of my Favorite Stephen King Movies

Stephen KingI know that Stephen King is known as a horror writer, but he has some dramatic writings that are excellent, insightful with well developed characters and intriguing story lines. In other words, classic novels. Those are the ones that I tend to like better. Although, I’ll admit, I like some of his horror stories as well. In no particular order …….

1. The Stand. My favorite. I’ve seen the movie and read the book. The book is better, of course. The news of the Russian former-spy being murdered with a nuclear element and the subsequent expansion of the radiation every where anyone exposed has gone certainly reminded me of this movie/book! The ultimate struggle between good vs. evil.

2. The Shining. ‘Honey, I’m home’. ‘Redrum, redrum.’

3. The Dead Zone.

4. Dolores Claiborne. A real departure from his horror genre. An excellent character study and engrossing story.

Stephen King5. Carrie. Wasn’t this his first story? High School proms were never the same after Carrie.

6. The Green Mile.

7. Storm of the Century.

8. Misery. Talk about stalking!

9. Bag of Bones. Hitchcock type ghost story.

10. Needful Things. Most of his books chronicle the classic struggle between good and evil.

11. The Tommyknockers. Okay, this one leans more towards science fiction.

12. The Dark Tower.

13. Shawshank Redemption

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