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Old 8th August 2017, 08:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Rik View Post
The reason I didn't add The Shining in my list is one I've said many times on here, it's a piss poor adaption of King's novel. It's a great film, one of my favourite horrors, but it's a Kubrick film starring Jack Nicholson playing Jack Nicholson, we already know he's crazy from the beginning, in the novel Jack Torrance slowly descends into madness as the novel progresses, and I'm pretty sure nobody read the book beforehand

The TV version is flawed, but it is a more faithful than Kubrick's film
My list is of films based on Stephen King's writings in order of how much I like them and doesn't account for how faithful they are to the source material.
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