10 Best Stephen King Movie Adaptations

7. The Mist

Probably one of the more controversial and divisive King adaptations of recent years, Frank Darabont's stunning The Mist is nevertheless a terrifically-wrought, character-driven sci-horror about a mist that blankets a small Maine town, while a group of survivors hole up inside a supermarket in an attempt to survive a fleet of grotesque monsters hiding within the fog.

Though the movie does admittedly have a rather low-budget, TV movie feel to it, Darabont does a fantastic job examining what real people would believably do if such an event happened.

The creatures, rendered in fairly unremarkable CGI, thankfully take a back seat to the human monsters inside the supermarket, with Marcia Gay Haden's religious nut Mrs. Carmody being easily the best-acted antagonist from any recent King movie.

And of course, the film doesn't chicken out with its brutal, much-discussed ending, which even King admitted was effortlessly superior to his own, more ambiguous climax. Your jaw will drop.