Stephen King: Adaptations without horror

Writer Stephen King is known as the “master of terror” and several titles have been adapted for the big and small screen, but he did not only write stories in this genre.

In the next few days, one of the latest adaptations of “Lord of Terror” will arrive in cinemas, it is about “The Boogeyman”, “The Man in the Bag”, based on the story “El coco” which is part of the collection of books called “Threshold of the Night”.

As the premiere of this adaptation approaches, the page “citizen.news” he emphasized that it is “master of terror” he also excelled in others genders and even theirs adjustments became classics seventh article.

“Dreams of Freedom”, “Unexpected miracles” i “Count on me” These are King’s titles that have nothing to do with horror and are film classics.

The movie “Sueños de libertad” from 1994 was made based on the story “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption” (1982), which tells the story of Andy Dufresne, who is sentenced to life in prison for kill his wife and the man she cheated on him with, but he will look for a way to escape from his unfair reality.

The adaptation had seven nominations for Oscar and it is a touching and poignant story about freedom.

“Unexpected Miracles”, for its part, is an adaptation of the film novel of the same name 1996, about Paul Edgecomb, a prison guard working on the death row, where he meets John Coffey, an inmate with supernatural powers.

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Stephen King is mostly known for his horror stories, but he excelled in other genres as well, and they were even adapted to the big screen and became classics.

Coffey will change his lives fellow prisonershe is very gentle and his powers of healing disease and pain make Edgecomb doubt his own guilt.

Finally, we have “Count on Me”, from 1986, it is based on a story “Body”published in 1982, and follows four friends who embark on a search to find the body of a missing young man.

The film is about friendship and as the story unfolds, the protagonists discover their own fearsdreams, secrets and live experiences that will mark their lives.