Euugh...
books. Look at them, all glossy and printed. Now there's a smug medium if I ever saw one. What
are they, exactly? Flappy paper things with symbols inside them - is that supposed to be cool, books? Is it? Huh? Year and years ago, it's thought that humans used books for entertainment purposes. But why would you do that when it's possible to sit down and stare and have a screen tell you a story without having to do any work? Still, a lot of movies are actually based on these book things, believe it or not. Presumably it's something to do with the fact that books have to be relatively "good" to be published, and that - by the time an adaptation comes around - they've already got a built-in fanbase, ready to exploit. We all know nowadays that
The Shawshank Redemption was written by Stephen King and that
Moby Dick was a novel first (apparently), but there are some movies that you probably didn't know started life on printed pages. In the cases of the 13 occasionally blood-soaked or seemingly unbook-like movies I've assembled here, you might find yourself shocked to learn that these things started out as works of actual literature. Like, for example...