Stephen King
DVDs abound these days and a number of Stephen King movies have been remade, or
are in the process of being remade, like the Stephen King IT movie, but the classics,
like Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining and John Carpenter’s Christine, remain classics
for very good reasons.
That’s why
we have dedicated a page of Stephen King Store to some of the best and much
loved theatrical movie adaptations of Stephen King movies. See if you have any these
classic King movies missing from your Stephen King DVD collection.
These are movies that were released for cinema viewing, Stephen King made for TV movies will appear on a separate page shortly.
If your are looking for a more recent film, all the latest Stephen King movie DVDs are here.
Original Release: April 23, 1993
Director: George A. Romero
Starring: Timothy Hutton, Amy Madigan, Julie Harris, Michael Rooker
In this Stephen King movie, King returns to the theme of the writer and this time it’s about an author Thad Beaumont, whose pseudonym, George Stark, refuses to die. If you read the Stephen King book, you won’t be disappointed by the film and, yes, the sparrows are back!
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Original Release: October 26, 1990
Director: Ralph S. Singleton
Starring: David Andrews, Kelly Wolf, Stephen Macht, Brad Dourif
When a crew of workers, including the newly hired drifter John Hall, is told to clean out the basement of an abandoned textile mill, they get a bit of a shock.
The tunnels in the sub-basement are inhabited by a horde of deadly rats, and wait until you see the leader of the pack!
Original Release: April 21, 1989
Director: Mary Lambert
Starring: Dale Midkiff, Fred Gwynne, Denise Crosby, Brad Greenquist, Michael Lombard, Miko, Hughes, Blaze Berdahl
Stephen King’s Pet Semetary is book that haunts the reader from start to finish and the movie makes a pretty god job of recreating the horror of the novel. Dead cats that come back to life are only beginning of the terror in a movie that begins, as all good horror flicks do, with a family moving into their new home.
This one’s a pretty shocking Stephen King DVD, especially if you haven’t read the book and you don’t know what’s coming next.
Original Release: November 13, 1987
Director: Paul Michael Glaser
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, María Conchita Alonso, Yaphet Kotto, Richard Dawson
Although only very loosely based on the original Stephen King Novel, The Running Man movie, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, is still a movie worth having in a Stephen King DVD collection.
Yes, it is camp and it’s extremely silly in parts, but it’s a great fun movie to watch.
Original
Release: April 12, 1985
Original
Release: May 11, 1984
Original Release: March 9, 1984
Director: Fritz Kiersch
Starring: Peter Horton, Linda Hamilton
Stephen King’s Children of the Corn is a movie based on the King short story of the same name that was first published Penthouse and then in the Stephen King short story collection Night Shift. Children of the Corn was the first in a series, to date, of 8 movie.
Children of the Corn DVD tells the story of "He Who Walks Behind The Rows", an evil entity that entices children to murder by telling them that it will guarantee them a good corn harvest.
Original
Release: October 21, 1983
Original
Release: May 16, 1982
These are movies that were released for cinema viewing, Stephen King made for TV movies will appear on a separate page shortly.
If your are looking for a more recent film, all the latest Stephen King movie DVDs are here.
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Needful Things
Original
Release: August 27, 1993
Director: Fraser
C. Heston
Starring: Ed
Harris, Max von Sydow, Bonnie Bedelia, J. T. Walsh, Amanda Plummer
Anyone who enters
Leland Gaunt’s store, Needful Things, in Castle Rock will find the object of their
lifelong desires, but Gaunt expect payment in cash and in favours that set the townsfolk
against one another.
Sheriff Alan Pangborn is the only person who suspects that
Gaunt is behind all the recent violence in the town and he sets out to save his
hometown.
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The Dark Half
Director: George A. Romero
Starring: Timothy Hutton, Amy Madigan, Julie Harris, Michael Rooker
In this Stephen King movie, King returns to the theme of the writer and this time it’s about an author Thad Beaumont, whose pseudonym, George Stark, refuses to die. If you read the Stephen King book, you won’t be disappointed by the film and, yes, the sparrows are back!
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Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
Original
Release: April 10, 1992
Director: Mick
Garris
Starring: Brian
Krause, Mädchen Amick, Alice Krige
The last of
a breed of vampires, known as the Sleepwalkers, survive by feeding on the
life-force of virgins and the only things that can see the vampires as they truly
are is the local cats. Can the Deputy Sheriff's cat, Clovis, thwart the
Sleepwalkers efforts to feast upon their latest victim?
Classic
Stephen King stuff!
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Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
Original
Release: May 4, 1990
Director: John
Harrison
Starring: Deborah
Harry, Christian Slater, David Johansen, William Hickey, James Remar, Rae Dawn,
Chong
Tales From the
Darkside is not strictly a Stephen King DVD, but it does contain the Stephen
King story The Cat from Hell. Because of the involvement of Stephen King and George
A. Romero, this anthology movie was believed by some to have been intended as Creepshow
3.
If you are
an avid collector of Stephen King movie DVD’s, Tales from the Darkside: The
Movie still deserves a place in your Stephen King DVD collection.
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Misery
Original
Release: November 30, 1990
Director: Rob
Reiner
Starring: James
Caan, Kathy Bates, Frances Sternhagen, Richard Farnsworth, Lauren Bacall
Misery is
one of the very best movie adaptations of a Stephen King book that there is and
it’s definitely one not to be missed.
James Caan
and Kathy Bates are absolutely brilliant in this tale of an author who survives
a car accident only to be rescued by his number one fan from hell. It’s dark, brooding
and downright scary.
If you don’t
flinch at the ankle scene, you’d better get yourself checked out by a doctor!
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Graveyard Shift
Director: Ralph S. Singleton
Starring: David Andrews, Kelly Wolf, Stephen Macht, Brad Dourif
When a crew of workers, including the newly hired drifter John Hall, is told to clean out the basement of an abandoned textile mill, they get a bit of a shock.
The tunnels in the sub-basement are inhabited by a horde of deadly rats, and wait until you see the leader of the pack!
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Pet Sematary
Director: Mary Lambert
Starring: Dale Midkiff, Fred Gwynne, Denise Crosby, Brad Greenquist, Michael Lombard, Miko, Hughes, Blaze Berdahl
Stephen King’s Pet Semetary is book that haunts the reader from start to finish and the movie makes a pretty god job of recreating the horror of the novel. Dead cats that come back to life are only beginning of the terror in a movie that begins, as all good horror flicks do, with a family moving into their new home.
This one’s a pretty shocking Stephen King DVD, especially if you haven’t read the book and you don’t know what’s coming next.
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The Running Man
Director: Paul Michael Glaser
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, María Conchita Alonso, Yaphet Kotto, Richard Dawson
Although only very loosely based on the original Stephen King Novel, The Running Man movie, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, is still a movie worth having in a Stephen King DVD collection.
Yes, it is camp and it’s extremely silly in parts, but it’s a great fun movie to watch.
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Creepshow 2
Original
Release: May 1, 1987
Director: Michael
Gornick
Starring: Lois
Chiles, George Kennedy, Dorothy Lamour, Tom Savini
Stephen King’s
Creepshow 2, the sequel to Creepshow, is an anthology movie based on three Stephen
King stories that were adapted for the screen by George A. Romero. It’s billed
as a horror comedy movie and the King tales depicted are Old Chief Wood'nhead, The
Raft and The Hitchhiker.
Ingenious
use of animation and live action and the great stories make this a Stephen King
DVD worth watching.
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Stand By Me
Original
Release: August 8, 1986
Director: Rob
Reiner
Starring: Wil
Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell, Kiefer Sutherland
Stephen King
has a way of conjuring up childhood memories of your own when he writes about
kids and he did that brilliantly in his novella, The Body, which was adapted
into the Stephen King DVD Stand by me.
It’s a
coming of age story about four boys from the small town of Castle Rock who discover
the dead body of a missing child while out walking in the countryside. It’s a beautiful
film with an impressive cast list that gained a lot of critical acclaim.
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Maximum Overdrive
Original
Release: July 25, 1986
Director: Stephen
King
Starring: Emilio
Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington, Christopher Murney
Written and
directed by Stephen King, Maximum Overdrive may not have been king’s finest
work ever and he himself described Maximum Overdrive as "moron movie".
This was Stephen King’s one and only foray into directing and he has vowed
never to repeat the experiment!
Maximum Overdrive
DVD has become a collector’s item, though, so it still deserves a spot in our
list of classic Stephen King DVDs.
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Silver Bullet
Original
Release: October 11, 1985
Director: Dan
Attias
Starring: Gary
Busey, Everett McGill, Corey Haim
This Stephen
King DVD is based on the Stephen King novella Cycle of the Werewolf. There’s a werewolf
terrorising the small town of Tarker's Mills, Maine, and Marty Coslaw, a wheelchair
bound paraplegic knows the truth. With the help of his uncle Red, the boy sets
out to bring the shape shifter’s reign of terror to end.
There are quite a few plot differences in this movie DVD adaptation of Stephen King’s Cycle of the Werewolf, but it’s still a good watch and it deserves a place in any collection of Stephen King DVDs.
There are quite a few plot differences in this movie DVD adaptation of Stephen King’s Cycle of the Werewolf, but it’s still a good watch and it deserves a place in any collection of Stephen King DVDs.
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Cat's Eye
Director: Lewis
Teague
Starring: Drew
Barrymore, James Woods, Alan King
Stephen King’s
Cat’s eye is an anthology of three stories, two of which, Quitters Inc. and The
Ledge, appeared in Stephen King’s Nightshift, and a third, General, that Stephen
King wrote for the film. All three stories are tied together by a mysterious travelling
cat.
Watch out for the appearance of a familiar looking red 1958 Plymouth Fury in this great DVD collection of Stephen King short tales.
Watch out for the appearance of a familiar looking red 1958 Plymouth Fury in this great DVD collection of Stephen King short tales.
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Firestarter
Director: Mark
L. Lester
Starring: David
Keith, Drew Barrymore, Freddie Jones, Heather Locklear, Martin Sheen, George C.
Scott
When college
students Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson earned some money by taking an experimental
drug that gave them physic powers, they had no idea that it would affect them
for the rest of their lives.
Now, their nine-year-old daughter named Charlene "Charlie" McGee is Pyrokinetic, she can start fires with her thoughts, and a government agency is out to control her.
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Children of the Corn
Director: Fritz Kiersch
Starring: Peter Horton, Linda Hamilton
Stephen King’s Children of the Corn is a movie based on the King short story of the same name that was first published Penthouse and then in the Stephen King short story collection Night Shift. Children of the Corn was the first in a series, to date, of 8 movie.
Children of the Corn DVD tells the story of "He Who Walks Behind The Rows", an evil entity that entices children to murder by telling them that it will guarantee them a good corn harvest.
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The Dead Zone
Director: David
Cronenberg
Starring: Christopher
Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Herbert Lom, Anthony Zerbe, Colleen, Dewhurst,
Martin Sheen
Stephen King
is reported to have said that the changes that David Cronenberg and screenwriter
Jeffrey Boam made in the structure of the Dead Zone movies "improved and
intensified the power of the narrative", so that’s praise indeed or this classic
Stephen King DVD.
Stephen King’s Dead Zone DVD is
one watch if you haven’t yet seen it.
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Cujo
Original
Release: August 12, 1983
Director: Lewis
Teague
Starring: Dee
Wallace, Daniel Hugh-Kelly, Danny Pintauro, Ed Lauter, Christopher Stone
Cujo, is one
of the Stephen King movies that became something of a cult classic. When a
friendly St. Bernard dog is bitten by a rabid bat, it turns into a menacing killer
and traps Donna Trenton and her son Tad inside their car.
Cujo is a superb
psychological horror thriller film based on the Stephen King book of the same
name.
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Creepshow
Director: George
A. Romero
Starring: Hal
Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, Fritz Weaver, Leslie Nielsen, Carrie Nye, E. G.
Marshall, Viveca Lindfors
Creepshow is
an anthology of black comedy tales, which was directed by the one and only
George A. Romero and with a screenplay written by Stephen King. This Stephen
King DVD is a homage to the old horror comic books, like Tales from the
Crypt and House of Mystery. A great bit of macabre fun and a cult horror classic.
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The Shining
Director: Stanley
Kubrick
Starring: Jack
Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers, Danny Lloyd
There many differences between Stephen King’s The Shining novel and Stanley
Kubrick’s The Shining movie, not least of which is the fact that Jack
never types the words ‘All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy’ in the book. Nevertheless,
The Shining movie now has as much of a cult status as the original Stephen King
Book and many say it was one of the greatest horror films ever made.
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Christine
Director: John
Carpenter
Starring: Keith
Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, Robert Prosky, Harry Dean Stanton
Based on Stephen King’s Christine, the 1983 movie screenplay was written by Bill Phillips.
Based on Stephen King’s Christine, the 1983 movie screenplay was written by Bill Phillips.
While
the original movie adaptation of Arnie and his sentient and extremely violent vintage
Plymouth Fury may movie have been the biggest box office hit, the Christine 1983
movie is still well worth a watch and having in your King DVD collection.
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Carrie
Original
Release: November 3, 1976
Director: Brian
De Palma
Starring: Sissy Spacek, John Travolta, Piper Laurie
The 1976 horror
classic Carrie was based of Stephen Kings first published book of the same name
and it was the very first move adaption of the author’s work.
Described as an "absolutely spellbinding horror
movie" by the Chicago Sun-Times and "landmark horror film" by The
Movie Guide, Carrie is one Stephen King DVD that everyone should have on their Stephen
King DVD collection.
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