Stephen King Filmography

From a Buick 8

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: Horror veteran Tobe Hooper brings another one of Stephen King's haunted car tales with From a Buick 8, the story of a man whose tragic loss of his father during the line of duty leads him to a mysterious Buick that might be the doorway to another dimension. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

Dead On: The Life and Cinema of George A. Romero

Stephen King's The Mist

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurie Holden, Andre Braugher, Toby Jones

Synopsis: Frequent Stephen King collaborator Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption) teamed with the celebrated horror author once again for this tale of terror concerning a small town engulfed by a malevolent mist, based on a story originally published in King's 1985 horror anthology Skeleton Crew. When Read More

1408

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Mary McCormack, Jasmine Jessica Anthony, Tony Shalhoub

Synopsis: A writer renowned for debunking infamous paranormal events is confronted by a force that he cannot explain upon checking into room 1408 of the notoriously haunted Dolphin Hotel. Mike Enslin (John Cusack) is an author who specializes in horror, but who only believes in what he can see with his eyes Read More

Stephen King's Desperation

Crew: Book Author, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Tom Skerritt, Steven Weber, Ron Perlman, Annabeth Gish, Charles Durning, Henry Thomas, Shane Haboucha

Synopsis: Masters of Horror creator Mick Garris joins forces with literary horror icon Stephen King for this, the pair's sixth onscreen collaboration. In the wind-swept Nevada town of Desperation, a malevolent sheriff (Ron Perlman) delivers arrestees to a jail cell from which, by all accounts, no one has Read More

Nightmares and Dreamscapes [TV Series]

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: Featuring episodes adapted from stories in the book of the same name, as well as some from other works by Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes is an eight-episode anthology miniseries that originally aired on TNT in summer 2006. William Hurt, William H. Macy, and Tom Berenger are just a few of Read More

Riding the Bullet

Crew: Executive Producer, Screen Story

Actors: Jonathan Jackson, David Arquette, Cliff Robertson, Barbara Hershey, Erika Christensen

Synopsis: A young man who has flirted with death is forced to come to terms with mortality in this tale of terror based on a story by Stephen King. Alan Parker (Jonathan Jackson) is a college student studying art at the University of Maine in 1969. Cursed with an over-active imagination, Alan constantly Read More

Secret Window

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Maria Bello, Timothy Hutton, Charles S. Dutton

Synopsis: From writer/director David Koepp (Stir of Echoes) comes this filmed adaptation of Stephen King's novella Secret Window, Secret Garden, one of four stories in the collection Four Past Midnight. Johnny Depp stars as Mort Rainey, a recently divorced author who decides to take some time off at his Read More

The Dead Zone: Season 03

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Anthony Michael Hall, Nicole deBoer, Chris Bruno, John L. Adams, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: The third-season opener of The Dead Zone not only clarifies the presence of the mysterious futuristic stranger (Frank Whaley) who had been stalking psychic Johnny Smith (Anthony Michael Hall) throughout the closing episodes of season two, but also helps Johnny fill in the memory gaps resulting Read More

Salem's Lot

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Rob Lowe, Andre Braugher, Donald Sutherland, Samantha Mathis, Rutger Hauer, James Cromwell

Synopsis: In this TV adaptation of the Stephen King novel, a journalist with traumatic memories of his haunted childhood returns to find his hometown being infiltrated by vampires. As a boy in Jerusalem's Lot, ME, Ben Mears (Rob Lowe) took a dare and broke into a local mansion called the Marsten House. Read More

Kingdom Hospital

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Andrew McCarthy, Diane Ladd, Bruce Davison, Ed Begley, Jr., Jack Coleman

Synopsis: Based upon the critically acclaimed Lars von Trier miniseries Riget (The Kingdom), this American remake from fright master Stephen King unfolds over 15 hours and centers on the creepy goings-on at a hospital known as The Kingdom. Andrew McCarthy leads the cast as Dr. Hook, one of the physicians at Read More

Dreamcatcher

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Morgan Freeman, Thomas Jane, Jason Lee, Damian Lewis, Timothy Olyphant, Tom Sizemore, Donnie Wahlberg

Synopsis: Four men are changed forever by an act of mercy -- changes which have a profound impact many years later -- in this blend of horror and science fiction based on a novel by Stephen King. Jonesy (Damian Lewis), Henry (Thomas Jane), Pete (Timothy Olyphant), and Beaver (Jason Lee) were four friends Read More

The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Lisa Brenner, Steven Brand, Kate Burton, Tsidii Leloka, Brad Greenquist

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Ridley Pearson, The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer is a prequel to the goose-pimply 2002 TV miniseries Stephen King's Rose Red. In its efforts to "explain" the supernatural events in the earlier project, this made-for-TV chiller is set at the turn of the century, when the stately Read More

The Dead Zone: Season 02

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Anthony Michael Hall, Nicole deBoer, Chris Bruno, John L. Adams, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: The second season of the Stephen King-inspired TV series The Dead Zone begins with the conclusion of the cliffhanger introduced at the end of season one, as schoolteacher Johnny Smith (Anthony Michael Hall), who ever since awakening from a six-year coma has had the ability to predict people's Read More

The Dead Zone [TV Series]

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: This weekly, 60-minute sci-fi/fantasy series was based on a novel by Stephen King, previously filmed in 1983 with Christopher Walken in the lead. Anthony Michael Hall, who (in this instance, at least) bore a remarkable resemblance to Walken, starred as schoolteacher Johnny Smith, who spent several Read More

Firestarter 2: Rekindled

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Marguerite Moreau, Malcolm McDowell, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: The child who could start fires with her mind is all grown up and still trying to find out the truth about what happened to her in this made-for-TV sequel to the sci-fi fantasy Firestarter. Nearly 20 years ago, Charlene "Charlie" McGee (Marguerite Moreau) was trained by a mysterious government Read More

Rose Red

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Nancy Travis, Matt Keeslar, Kimberly J. Brown, David Dukes, Judith Ivey

Synopsis: Horror specialist Stephen King claimed that his TV miniseries Rose Red was inspired by a number of sources, ranging from Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House (twice filmed as The Haunting) to Ripley's Believe It or Not to Moby Dick. Residents of San Jose, CA, however, quickly realized that Read More

The Dead Zone: The Beginning

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: Take a terrifying trip back to the beginning of one man's waking nightmare as Stephen King's best-selling book comes to life in this made-for-television feature starring Anthony Michael Hall. Following a near-fatal car accident, Johnny Smith (Hall) lies motionless in a deep coma for six years. Read More

The Dead Zone: Season 01

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Anthony Michael Hall, Nicole deBoer, Chris Bruno, John L. Adams, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: Schoolteacher Johnny Smith (Anthony Michael Hall) awakens from a six-year coma to discover himself a stranger in his own land as the TV-series version of The Dead Zone launches its first season. Johnny's wealthy mother has died under mysterious circumstances, and a flamboyant televangelist named Read More

Carrie

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: This made-for-TV remake of the classic movie chiller Carrie is slightly more faithful to the original Stephen King novel--and slightly less profane and violent. Following in the bloody footsteps of Sissy Spacek, Angela Bettis stars as woebegone high school girl Carrie White, whose shy and awkward Read More

Hearts in Atlantis

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Anton Yelchin, Hope Davis, Mika Boorem, David Morse

Synopsis: One of the short stories in a best-selling collection by author Stephen King becomes this mystery adapted for director Scott Hicks by screenwriter William Goldman, who previously transformed a King story into a box-office hit (Misery, 1990). In the summer of 1960, young Bobby Garfield (Anton Read More

Frasier: Mary Christmas

Synopsis: Kim Coles returns as "Dr. Mary" Thomas, the sassy radio-advice-show rival of Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer). When Mary and Frasier are assigned to co-host Seattle's Christmas Parade, Frasier is none too happy about it -- especially since Mary had started out as his temporary employee and ended up Read More

The Green Mile

Crew: Book Author, Screen Story

Actors: Tom Hanks, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt, Michael Clarke Duncan, James Cromwell, Michael Jeter, Graham Greene, Gary Sinise

Synopsis: Director Frank Darabont, who made an acclaimed feature film debut with The Shawshank Redemption (1994), based on a Stephen King novel set in a prison, returns for a second feature, based on King's 1996 serialized novel set in a prison. In 1935, inmates at the Cold Mountain Correctional Facility Read More

Storm of the Century

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Tim Daly, Colm Feore, Debrah Farentino, Casey Siemaszko, Jeffrey DeMunn

Synopsis: The first story Stephen King wrote specifically for a television miniseries, Storm of the Century is set in Little Tall Island, a small town off the coast of Maine. The citizens are bracing themselves for what is expected to be the worst snowstorm in 100 years when a mysterious stranger named Read More

Apt Pupil

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Kevin Pollak, Ian McKellen, Brad Renfro, Bruce Davison, Elias Koteas, Joe Morton, David Schwimmer

Synopsis: Bryan Singer directed this Brandon Boyce adaptation of Stephen King's novella about teenager Todd Bowden (Brad Renfro), who discovers Nazi war criminal Kurt Dussander (Ian McKellen) living in his California hometown. Fascinated with Dussender's wartime atrocities, Bowden blackmails the former Read More

The Night Flier

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Miguel Ferrer, Julie Entwisle, Dan Monahan, Michael H. Moss, Merton H. Moss, John Bennes

Synopsis: Stephen King's short story, The Night Flier, originally appeared in Prime Evil: New Stories by the Masters of Modern Horror (1988), edited by Washington, D.C., lawyer Douglas E. Winter, and it was later collected in King's Nightmares & Dreamscapes (1993). This film adaptation aired on HBO Read More

The X-Files: Chinga

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Stephen King collaborated with X-Files creator Chris Carter on the script for the series' February 8, 1998, episode -- "Chinga." The small coastal town of Amma Beach, ME, is held in a grip of terror by an apparently malevolent child (Jenny-Lynn Hutcheson) and her doll. Vacationing in Amma Beach Read More

Ghosts

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Jackson

Synopsis: This short film is actually a long-form music video, produced to promote Michael Jackson's 1997 album {^Blood on the Dance Floor}, and it features two songs from that release. The obese and overbearing mayor of a small town, like most of his constituents, lives in fear of the "ghosts" that inhabit Read More

The Outer Limits: The Revelations of 'Becca Paulson

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Steven Weber

Synopsis: Based on a short story by Stephen King, this Outer Limits episode stars Catherine O'Hara as Becca Paulson, a frowsy, none-too-bright housewife living in a rundown trailer park. Accidentally shooting herself in the head, Becca manages to survive her wounds, but not without a few curious side Read More

Trucks

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Timothy Busfield, Brenda Bakke, Brendan Fletcher, Sharon Bajer, Amy Stewart

Synopsis: In this supernatural chiller, a small community is utterly terrorized when a fleet of driverless trucks rolls into town. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Quicksilver Highway

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Christopher Lloyd, Matt Frewer, Missy Crider

Synopsis: Body parts take on a life of their own in these two below-par horror stories made for television. In one story, a pair of teeth bite into a nasty hitchhiker at an opportune moment, and in the other, an artificially attached hand leaves the body it belongs to and takes off for a series of Read More

Thinner

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Robert John Burke, Joe Mantegna, Michael Constantine, Lucinda Jenney, Kari Wuhrer

Synopsis: The plot of Thinner concerns massively overweight lawyer Billy Halleck (Robert John Burke), who is receiving an oral gift from his wife (Lucinda Jenney) while driving down the street one night, when he becomes so carried away that he runs over an old Gypsy woman (Irma St. Paule), killing her. Read More

Dolores Claiborne

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judy Parfitt, Christopher Plummer, David Strathairn

Synopsis: A daughter who has come to imagine the worst about her mother learns the facts are quite different -- and more shocking than she ever imagined -- in this adaptation of Stephen King's best-selling novel. Dolores Claiborne (Kathy Bates) has spent nearly a quarter of a century looking after a Read More

The Shawshank Redemption

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, Bill Sadler, Clancy Brown

Synopsis: In 1946, a banker named Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is convicted of a double murder, even though he stubbornly proclaims his innocence. He's sentenced to a life term at the Shawshank State Prison in Maine, where another lifer, Ellis "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman), picks him as the new recruit most Read More

The Stand

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Gary Sinise, Molly Ringwald, Jamey Sheridan, Laura San Giacomo, Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, Miguel Ferrer, Rob Lowe

Synopsis: Originally aired as a television mini-series, this all-star filmization of Stephen King's gripping epic of good versus evil chronicles the episodic adventures of a disparate group of people who struggle to reestablish civilization after a man-made catastrophe wipes out most of the world's Read More

The Tommyknockers

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Jimmy Smits, Marg Helgenberger, Joanna Cassidy

Synopsis: Adapted for TV, this is a Stephen King story in which an aspiring writer and an alcoholic poet (with a metal plate in his head, no less) literally stumble over a long-buried spaceship while walking in the woods. It starts glowing green when uncovered and soon everyone in town has green eyes, their Read More

Needful Things

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Max von Sydow, Ed Harris, Bonnie Bedelia, Amanda Plummer, J.T. Walsh

Synopsis: Satan opens an antique shop in a small town and lures the residents into evil actions in this supernatural chiller. Based on a novel by the prolific Stephen King, the film bears many of the author's trademarks, such as the New England setting and the focus on regular people tempted by the forces Read More

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Blood is Thicker Than Mud

Synopsis: Both Will (Will Smith) and Carlton (Alfonso Ribeiro) aspire to join an all-black college fraternity. After a humiliating initiation ritual, Will is accepted--but Carlton is rejected as a Bel Air-bred "sellout" to his race. This sets the stage for a remarkable closing sequence, in which an Read More

Sleepwalkers

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Brian Krause, Mädchen Amick, Alice Krige, Mark Hamill, Jim Haynie, Ron Perlman, Cindy Pickett

Synopsis: Stephen King wrote his first original screenplay for this horror gore fest that features cameos by directors Clive Barker, Joe Dante, Tobe Hooper, John Landis, and King himself (playing a cemetery attendant). The story concerns a twilight people named "sleepwalkers" --creatures similar to vampires Read More

The Lawnmower Man

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Jeff Fahey, Pierce Brosnan, Jenny Wright, Geoffrey Lewis, Mark Bringelson

Synopsis: Loosely based on a short story by Stephen King, The Lawnmower Man was the first film to explore virtual reality technology and boasts a dazzling collection of computer-animated sequences. The story concerns the slightly-mad scientist Dr. Lawrence Angelo (Pierce Brosnan), who as part of a secret Read More

Rock Bottom Remainders

Golden Years

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Keith Szarabajka

Synopsis: This made-for-TV mini-series from the notorious horror writer centers upon a hapless old janitor who begins undergoing incredible physical changes after he is accidentally covered with experimental chemicals following a laboratory mishap. Now the government will stop at nothing to get him back. Read More

The Dark Half

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Timothy Hutton, Amy Madigan, Michael Rooker, Julie Harris, Robert Joy

Synopsis: Marking the first collaboration between horror legends George A. Romero and Stephen King since 1982's Creepshow, this moody, atmospheric adaptation of King's novel was actually completed in 1991, but the highly-publicized bankruptcy of its distributor Orion Pictures in that same year nearly doomed Read More

Sometimes They Come Back

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Tim Matheson, Brooke Adams, William Sanderson

Synopsis: This adaptation of Stephen King's thriller is about a man who returns to his hometown after 27 years. Soon he is tormented by ghosts of the dead teens who killed his brother years before. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Misery

Crew: Book Author

Actors: James Caan, Kathy Bates, Frances Sternhagen, Richard Farnsworth, Lauren Bacall

Synopsis: Adapted from a Stephen King novel, Rob Reiner's Misery cast James Caan as a writer at a career crossroads. The film opens with Paul Sheldon (Caan) completing work on his latest novel, a break from his popular series of novels featuring the character Misery Chastain. He gets into a severe car Read More

Graveyard Shift

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: David Andrews, Kelly Wolf, Stephen Macht, Brad Dourif, Andrew Divoff

Synopsis: One of countless Stephen King adaptations, this take on one of the author's Night Shift tales is set in a Maine textile mill whose overbearing manager (Stephen Macht) finds himself in a tight spot when county inspectors crack down on his less-than-safe operation after a fatal accident involving a Read More

Tales From the Darkside: The Movie

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Deborah Harry, Christian Slater, Rae Dawn Chong, William Hickey, James Remar, David Johansen

Synopsis: This feature-length spin-off of the popular television horror anthology is directed by John Harrison, who directed many episodes of the television series. The film consists of four grisly and gruesome horror teasers. "The Wraparound Story" stars Deborah Harry as Betty, a chef with a kitchen Read More

It

Crew: Book Author

Actors: John Ritter, Richard Thomas, Annette O'Toole, Tim Curry, Harry Anderson

Synopsis: Originally titled Stephen King's It, this two-part TV movie first aired on November 18 and 20, 1990. The story starts in Maine, where a small child is lured into the hands of what audiences everywhere can be assured is one mean clown. The 30-year struggle against an evil supernatural force that Read More

Pet Sematary

Crew: Book Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Dale Midkiff, Fred Gwynne, Denise Crosby, Brad Greenquist, Michael Lombard

Synopsis: A doctor dabbles in magical resurrection with horrific consequences in this supernatural thriller adapted from the novel by Stephen King. When Dr. Louis Creed (Dale Midkiff) and his family move from Chicago to an old farmhouse in rural Maine, their only concern is the busy highway that flanks Read More

Home and Away [TV Series]

Actors: Vanessa Downing, Debra Lawrence, Roger Oakley, Norman Coburn, Ray Meagher

Synopsis: Running neck and neck with Neighbors as Australia's most popular TV soap opera, Home and Away debuted January 17, 1988. Set in the resort town of Summer Bay, New South Wales, the series originally concentrated on the lives of the Fletcher family, who had set up a tourist trailer park in the Read More

The Running Man

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Conchita Alonso, Richard Dawson, Yaphet Kotto, Jim Brown

Synopsis: Directed by former Starsky and Hutch TV star Paul Michael Glaser, this post-apocalyptic science fiction yarn satirized American entertainment, mocking pro wrestling, game shows, and law-and-order reality programming. Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Ben Richards, a cop in the totalitarian America of Read More

A Return to Salem's Lot

Crew: Consultant/advisor

Actors: Michael Moriarty, Andrew Duggan, Samuel Fuller, Rick Reed, June Havoc

Synopsis: A divorced dad and son attempt to build on their newly resurrected relationship by heading back to pop's hometown in up-state Maine. When he gets there, he finds that all the townspeople have turned into 300-year-old vampires. Some say that director Larry Cohen intended the vampire community to be Read More

Creepshow 2

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Lois Chiles, George Kennedy, Dorothy Lamour, Tom Savini, Domenick John

Synopsis: This less-satisfying sequel to the 1982 George A. Romero/Stephen King anthology presents a new trio of King stories, framed in a similar EC Comics-style format -- this time featuring some rather lackluster animated segments involving horror-host "The Creep," who introduces each chapter with Read More

Stand by Me

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: John Cusack, Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell, Richard Dreyfuss, Kiefer Sutherland

Synopsis: Based on the Stephen King short story The Body, Rob Reiner's easygoing nostalgia piece is set in Castle Rock, OR, over Labor Day weekend, 1959. A quartet of boys, inseparable friends all, set out in search of a dead body that one of the boys overhears his brother talking about. The foursome Read More

Maximum Overdrive

Crew: Director, Screenwriter, Short Story Author

Actors: Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington, Yeardley Smith, John Short

Synopsis: Writer-director Stephen King falls short in his debut at the helm with Maximum Overdrive, an absurd tale about a radiation storm that somehow animates machines across the world, causing them to turn on their makers. The film focuses on a group of survivors held captive at the Dixie Boy Diner by a Read More

Stephen King's Nightshift Collection

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: Released at the height of Stephen King's popularity in the 1980s, this home video pairs two short films adapted from the horror author's earliest (and most revered) short-story compilation. The first tale, "The Woman in the Room," marked a promising genre debut from writer-director Frank Darabont Read More

Cat's Eye

Crew: Screenwriter, Short Story Author

Actors: Drew Barrymore, James Woods, Alan King, Kenneth McMillan, Robert Hays

Synopsis: Cat's Eye is an uneven, tepid trilogy of stories written by Stephen King connected by a cat which appears at the beginning of each story. The best story, and first episode, concerns chain-smoker Morrison (