9 Best Changes Stephen King Movies Made From The Books

9. Kubrick's Touch - The Shining

Stanley Kubrick's 1980 adaptation of King's novel of the same name is undoubtedly a classic.

King himself has gone on record to voice his dislike of the movie, and his reasons are understandable. Kubrick made a number of changes and omissions from King's story, most notably the removal of the more supernatural elements of the book, including the Overlook's sinister personality and its subsequent possession of Jack's mind.

While the book is an in-depth tale with a steadily increasing tension throughout, Kubrick was limited by the runtime of an average movie, and was presented with the impossible task of translating a long and nuanced story to the big screen.

While King may not have appreciated Kubrick's efforts, the end result is a movie that is deserving of all the praise heaped upon it. It's appropriately suspenseful and terrifying, with all of the threatening and horrifying imagery that you'd expect from a King adaptation.

The removal of certain plot points, while a sore subject for many fans of the novel, was a necessity for the movie's success, and no-one can argue that it delivered on that front.