3 Stephen King Movies That Should Never Be Remade

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3 Stephen King Movies That Should Never Be Remade
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This article discusses three Stephen King movies considered perfect adaptations that should never be remade. These include *Misery*, *Gerald's Game*, and *The Mist*. Each film is praised for its direction, acting, story, and faithfulness to the source material.

King movies range from the truly terrible to some of the biggest classics in cinema history, with a few silly yet delightful cult classics in the mix. There are a few differing opinions on which adaptations should be placed at the very top of the list, especially considering that, when it was turned into a popular series starring Anthony Michael Hall.

On rare occasions, there have been remakes that turned out better than the original (though some would argue otherwise), like in the case of Andy Muschietti’s first IT film in 2017 starring Bill Skarsgård vs. the 1990 miniseries. Then, there are that are so obviously untouchable and the perfect iteration of the story that anyone would be asinine to consider remaking them, including *What*. Three other perfect Stephen King movies should remain the only feature adaptations of that story to exist, then? Continue below to find out!*Misery* needs to immediately rectify that. Every bit of this adaptation is perfect, from Reiner’s directing, William Goldman’s writing, the editing, the score, James Caan’s take on the tortured author Paul Sheldon, and, of course, Kathy Bates’ Oscar-winning performance as Paul Sheldon’s #1 fan and captor, Annie Wilkes. When Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy mountain, he is fortunately rescued by a local named Annie Wilkes, who witnessed the accident. Annie takes Paul in to care for him as he heals from his injuries, promising she will call for help once the phones are back up and the roads are clear from the blizzard. Unfortunately, Paul realizes Annie has been intentionally isolating him because she is an obsessed fan who never plans on letting him leave — and wants him to write the perfect new novel for her favorite fictional character, Misery.The film is carefully constructed and infused with a handful of funny moments that never overshadow the bleak and dangerous situation Paul is trapped in. Bates and Caan raised the bar as screen partners in this flawless take on King’s dark tale; another version would never do it justice. Not only has Mike Flanagan firmly established himself as another master of horror in the movie and TV world, but he is also one of the few filmmakers who have consistently made good Stephen King adaptations. The writer/director certainly enjoys a challenge, and one of the biggest magic tricks he’s ever pulled came in 2017 with Netflix’s *Gerald’s Game*. The psychological horror-thriller follows a woman named Jessie (Carla Gugino) and her husband Gerald (Bruce Greenwood) to a remote lake house where the couple is attempting to spice up a dying marriage. Gerald suggests adding some kink to the bedroom and handcuffs Jessie to the bed frame. An argument after Jessie expresses her distress when things escalate into rape fantasy territory ends when Gerald suddenly has a fatal heart attack. Jessie, still handcuffed, is left alone in a fight for survival, with only Gerald’s body, traumatic childhood memories, hallucinations, a wild, hungry dog, and a mysterious man — who may or may not be real — hiding in the shadows of the bedroom to keep her company. Gugino and Greenwood are two of the familiar faces found in various Flanagan series and movie projects. There are reasons he regularly works with the same performers, one of them being that he has a knack for collaborating with excellent actors like Gugino and Greenwood, who deliver gold with every role (the two most recently starred together in Flanagan’s Netflix limited series *The Midnight Club*). In the same sense that no one else could have made a fantastic movie version of this novel, a huge part of its success is thanks to Greenwood and, especially, Gugino. She tackles every emotional and complicated aspect of Jessie’s past and predicament, even perfectly playing off of herself. Frank Darabont is another mastermind of perfecting King’s work on the big screen. His third feature based on a King novel, *The Mist*, Stepping away from prison dramas, Darabont took on King’s sci-fi horror tale starring Thomas Jane (another King alum who has appeared in many adaptations inspired by the author’s stories) and boasting one of the best, most satisfyingly shocking endings to a horror movie ever. In *The Mist*, David Drayton (Jane) and his son take shelter inside a grocery store alongside several members of a small community when a dense, unyielding fog rolls in following a severe thunderstorm. What keeps almost everyone inside the store is the deadly threat of large, monstrous creatures looming in the fog. Like all King stories,*The Mist* is more interested in the characters than what they are being confronted with, specifically how they respond in difficult or terrifying situations. This results in the biggest threat not being the strange monsters outside, but some of the humans inside the store, particularly religious zealot Mrs. Carmody, played by Marcia Gay Harden.

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