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Popverse Picks: The best Stephen King movie & TV (and more) adaptations, from one King fan to another
It's maybe the greatest horror movie of all time, but King himself doesn't like it - so let's just skip Stanley Kubrick's The Shining altogether and get into some other things based on Stephen's works, yeah?
Greetings again from the uncomfortable spot of having to pick my 'favorite' horror media, a position in which my editors seem to just delight in putting me. On this week's episode of Popverse Picks, I've been tasked with compiling some of my favorite Stephen King adaptations, and since you know how difficult I also delight in being, loyal reader, that's going to go well beyond your standard movies and TV shows.
Yet, similar to my horror franchise favorites of articles past, I prefer to begin by taking the most obvious choice off the table first. That, of course, is Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. With absolute respect for King himself (who is famously not nuts about the movie), The Shining is, to my mind, one of the towering achievements in all of horror. So, to pay deference to the Master and
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