Explore the extensive list of films and TV shows written by renowned author Stephen King, featuring iconic titles like Pet Sematary and Creepshow, and discover the breadth of his screenplay credits.
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Vampires seize control of a Maine town.
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Stephen King tales follow a cat into a smokers clinic, onto a penthouse ledge, and into a girl's (Drew Barrymore) bedroom.
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Hannah (Natalie Ramsey) is the daughter of a cult member who worships "He Who Walks Behind the Rows." Hannah travels to Gatlin, Neb., to find her mother and explore her past. Isaac (John Franklin), the original cult leader, wakes from a coma. Violence, threats, and strange rituals surround Hannah as she seeks the truth about her lineage.
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A boy uses mind control powers to recruit Chicago children in his reign of terror against adult mankind.
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Grace Rhodes (Naomi Watts), a medical student, returns home as a strange illness strikes local children. The illness causes high fever and spasms. Then, the next day, the sick claim to be others and start murdering adults. After her sister undergoes the same change, Grace suspects a connection to an evil cult figure returning from the grave.
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A young woman fights murderous children and worse to save her estranged brother from a suicide cult.
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After her grandmother disappears, Jamie (Claudette Mink) stays in the elderly woman's Nebraska apartment searching for her. Jamie finds sketchy neighbors and a large cornfield outside the window with creepy kids. As Jamie searches, adults vanish, children become threatening, and an evil spirit rises from the fields.
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A newsman (Terence Knox) and his son (Paul Scherrer) spy on a Nebraska town where children kill many adults.
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Nerd Arnie Cunningham (Keith Gordon) buys a 1958 Plymouth Fury, naming it Christine. Arnie becomes obsessed with the car, alarming his friend Dennis Guilder (John Stockwell). After bully Buddy Repperton (William Ostrander) ruins Christine, the car fixes itself, kills Buddy and his friends. Dennis and Arnie's girlfriend, Leigh Cabot (Alexandra Paul), decide to destroy Christine.
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George A. Romero directed the horror anthology film Creepshow. Stephen King wrote five chilling tales. The movie includes Hal Holbrook as Henry Northrup and Adrienne Barbeau as Wilma Northrup in the story The Crate. Jordy Verrill, Stephen King, appears in a segment as a farmer who finds a meteorite. Creepshow mixes humor and horror. It presents a series of scary stories, each one more eerie than the last. The film earned the Saturn Award for B.
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A killer dog, St. Bernard Cujo, turns man's best friend into an enemy. A bat bites Cujo, making him aggressive. Cujo becomes a dangerous beast, rampaging through a small town. Stay-at-home mom Donna (Dee Wallace) gets caught in Cujo's attack while running an errand with her son, Tad (Danny Pintauro). Donna and Tad face a scary fight with the wild animal inside their car.
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Humans, including Tom Skerritt, Steven Weber, and Annabeth Gish, fight a malevolent entity that invaded a Nevada mining town.
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Andy McGee and his fiancée Vicky participated in secret experiments as youths. This allowed them to undergo strange medical tests. Later, their daughter Charlie gains the power to start fires with her mind. This dangerous talent makes the young girl a target for "The Shop," an agency.
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A comet causes a radiation storm on Earth. Machines activate and turn against their creators. Survivors hide in a North Carolina truck stop, facing homicidal trucks. Diner cook Bill Robinson (Emilio Estevez) leads the group, trying to plan an escape for himself and the survivors, including his boss, Bubba Hendershot (Pat Hingle), and a new couple.
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In Normal Valley, a small child fears the ghost stories of Maestro (Michael Jackson), a magician living on the edge of town. The Mayor (also Jackson) leads angry villagers to Maestro's spooky house. Maestro demands the outsider leave, but challenges the Mayor to a scare-off, entertaining everyone with tricks and music, with help from ghosts.
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Leland Gaunt, a creepy older man, moves to a small Maine town and opens an antique shop. Bad things follow quickly. Gaunt can sell people exactly what they desire, but his ideal buys cost more than just cash. Gaunt manipulates the townspeople. This causes citizens to turn on each other. Violence erupts, and Sheriff Alan Pangborn fights to control it.
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Doctor Louis Creed (Dale Midkiff) moves his family to Maine. He meets a local named Jud Crandall (Fred Gwynne). After the Creeds' cat dies, Crandall advises Louis to bury it near the old pet cemetery. The cat comes back to life, but its personality is worse. Louis' son, Gage (Miko Hughes), dies. Louis buries the boy's body in the same ground, ignoring Crandall's warnings and Louis' visions of a dead patient.
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A professor and an autistic teen release spirits inside a mansion.
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Writer David Soul and boy Lance Kerwin hunt a vampire in their New England town.
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Unexplained murders happen in the quiet town of Tarker's Mill. Residents hunt the killer, but many vigilantes die. Those who survive find no assailant. A young wheelchair-using boy named Marty meets a werewolf one night. Marty, his sister, and Uncle Red begin a mission to catch the werewolf.
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Newcomers Charles (Brian Krause) and his mother, Mary (Alice Krige), settle. Local residents do not suspect they are shape-shifters hunting for the town's young girls. Charles quickly becomes friends with innocent Tanya (Madchen Amick) while attending high school, hoping to take her life force to feed his mother. Tanya agrees to a first date with Charles, but she might learn his true goals the hard way.
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Jon Porter (Michael Gross) suppresses memories of how his older sister was murdered—and how he electrocuted her three attackers. Now, Jon must return for his mother's funeral, who died under strange conditions. In his hometown, Jon's daughter, Michelle (Hilary Swank), makes friends with local girls and someone named Tony Reno (Alexis Arquette), who looks like and shares a name with one of the boys her father killed.
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Sorry, Right Number is a 2005 short thriller. Brian Berkowitz and Stephen King wrote it. Brian Berkowitz directed it.
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The Boogeyman is an upcoming short horror drama film. Jenny Januszewski and Stephen King wrote it. Jenny Januszewski directed it.
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The Charning is a 2010 short comedy film. Stephen King wrote it. Charlotte Buck directed it.
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Dark forces invade a Seattle mansion. An industrialist (Steven Brand) lives there with his submissive wife (Lisa Brenner).
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A laundry owner's (Robert Englund) employee becomes a victim of an ironing machine with a mind of its own.
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A lab virus escapes and kills millions.
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Obese lawyer Billy Halleck (Robert John Burke) hits a Gypsy with his car after his wife distracts him. Halleck's town influence and prejudice against Gypsies let him cover the incident with unethical legal help from associates. Tadzu Lempke (Michael Constantine), the victim's father, curses the heavy man. Halleck then loses weight fast, leading to other gruesome events.
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Stephen King wrote and Mikhail Tank directed 'Willa: A Dollar Baby Film, Based on a Story by Stephen King.' This 2012 short fantasy mystery film exists.
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A writer returns home. He finds the residents there are turning into vampires.
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Twin brothers find a strange wind-up monkey. Outrageous deaths tear their family apart. Twenty-five years later, the monkey starts a new killing spree. This forces the estranged siblings to face the cursed toy.
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