The only decent King movies, for me, have been the non-horror ones - Stand By Me, Shawshank, Green Mile. The probem with the horror pieces is that what works on the page, becauase you can leave the details nebulous and allow the reader to fillin the gaps, simply does'nt work when it's seen on screen in all its 'glory'. Classic case in point? IT. In the book, during the final encounter, it's made clear that the characters can't comprehened what It is they're looking at - It's some Lovecraftian beasty of  incomparable horror. In an effort to give It a form they can recognise and cope with, they seeIit as a sort of giant spider - but they know this isnt' the true form of It. This is done by being able to see through the eyes of the characters, and hear their internal dialogues. IN film, this is impossibel to convey, so what happens? The horrible force they've been battling for so much of their lives, ably performed by Tim Curry, turns out to be... a rather large spider that turns your hair white.

How disappointing.

JonTheCelt