DISQUS

Film School Rejects: 10 Stephen King Short Stories That Should Be Films

  • MovieRobot · 2 months ago
    it would be so cool to do a Stephen King movie.. i wish i started film school already
  • Zeus · 2 months ago
    The killer cat one was in a Tales From The Darkside anthology movie segment, wasn't it?
  • Ballard · 2 months ago
    Zeus, your right, a pretty good one too with David Johansen from the New York Dolls and I think Home Delivery was done by a Spanish animator as a short - never saw it though.
  • Cole_Abaius · 2 months ago
    Yeah, there have been a decent amount done as Dollar Babies or as shorts.

    But I need to find this Tales From the Darkside apparently....
  • Chris · 2 months ago
    Yep, The Cat From Hell was the second part of the Tales From The Darkside movie (right after the fun Steve Bucemi/Christian Slater "Lot 249"), starring William Hickey as the old man trying to get the cat taken care of, and Buster Poindexter as the hitman. It's somewhat dated, but still, really good.

    "The rest of your nine lives are going in one lump-sum!"
  • clarencesomerset · 2 months ago
    Home Delivery is currently in pre-production.
    http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/33441/ryuhei-k...
  • Lisa · 2 months ago
    Very nicely done, Dr. When I was younger I wanted to make the early short story "I Know What You Need" into a movie. "All That You Love Will Be Carried Away" was such a fine piece of writing from King. I agree with all your choices.
  • Jonathan Cohen · 2 months ago
    "Survivor Type" would make a wonderful 45-minute piece, although I'm not sure I could handle watching it after being traumatized just by reading it.

    It'd require a decent bit of CGI, though.
  • MrBiscuit · 3 weeks ago
    Not to quibble details, but in "The Gingerbread Girl," Emily does NOT move in with her father, but rather into a summer home in Florida owned by her father. (She plans to call and ask him to join her after she's had some time alone.) This is a great story, but very thin. It would need A LOT of padding to turn it into a movie.