Stephen King's Favorite Stephen King Movie, That Critics Hated, Is Officially on Netflix

By Aimee Hart · Polygon · Sunday, 11 October 2026 at 11:00 (1h ago) · Original article ↗

Stephen King has never hidden his contempt for movie adaptations of his books that he felt failed to live up to the source material. His reasons range from thinking they are exploitative and crude (as he did with Ralph S. Singleton’s Graveyard Shift), to feeling they ignore the original novel’s themes (Paul Michael Glaser’s The Running Man).

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