Best adaptations of Stephen King in horror movies and series on HBO Max

There is no doubt that along with HP Lovecraft, Stephen King is one of the most famous contemporary horror writers of all time. And with that title there have been more or less decent adaptations of his work, but on HBO Max there are some of the best horror movies and series.

The fog

Many followers of the writer claim that “The Fog” is probably one of Stephen King’s best adaptations, both for its setting, and for the respect for the original story, which the director drank Darabont, along with Thomas Jane, Laurie Holden, among other cast members, they managed to create.

The story of this HBO Max horror movie follows a group of people who get trapped in a supermarket, when a thick fog arrives in the city and within it are hiding several creatures that look like from another world, which they will have to learn to deal with.

Element

Another of the most popular horror films based on a Stephen King story is ‘It’, but not the classic film, but the Andy Muschietti remake, in which Bill Skarsgard is in charge of bringing the clown Pennywise back to life a few years ago. later to torment the children of the town of Derry.

Chapelwaite

It may be one of the writer’s lesser-known works, but for his followers, “Chapelwaite” with Adrien Broody and Jennifer Ens is one of Stephen King’s best series. The story is about a captain trying to bring his three children back to his old home in Maine after his wife dies.

The glow

Undoubtedly, one of the most acclaimed adaptations of a novel is Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’, although, in this case, Stephen King didn’t like the result, and even made his own series based on the Jack Torrance story. and the Overlook Hotel at their own expense.

nostalgia for the past

Finally we have a film which, while not a horror story, is also an adaptation of a Stephen King short story, “Nostalgia for the Past”, based on “Low Men in Yellow Coats”, starring Anthony Hopkins, who plays a photographer who, after the death of his friend, returns to the small town where he grew up.