The best of King films

Rating: Null/10 (14 September 1999)

Although I'm a big fan of Stephen King, nearly all of his movie adaptions just suck. There are two reasons for this: 1. A lot of directors which made adaption of King's stories are just inept.
2. Because King is such a great storyteller, it is extremely difficult to bring the story to celluloid.
But The Shawshank Redemption is one of the exceptions that proves the rule (Kubrick's The Shining is another one): it is relatively true to the original story ("Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption") and most of the characters are beautifully portrayed.

King has proven to a lot of his critics that he is definitely not solely a horror writer and that he is a anything but a writer of cheap trash - some critics seem to make the assumption that horror is equivalent with trash.
9 of 10
Regards, Mark