There’s no existing TV series based on the work of Stephen King more reverent to its source material than HBO’s The…

Mike Flanagan’s Doctor Sleep deviates wildly from the 2013 Stephen King novel that serves as its source material,…

The Goldfinch is a very pretty movie. That’s no shock, given the directing and cinematography team of John Crowley (B…

It must be strange to be Stephen King, to see so many of your creations maimed, knotted, or made entirely…

It’s become widely accepted that a movie adapting a novel should use its source as a guide rather than a strict…

The young-adult books of John Bellairs were, above all else, a way for the late author to indulge in his fondness…

A few years ago, I wrote an essay bemoaning the way Hollywood explores the subject of prejudice. Too often, I…

2006’s Sharp Objects announced Gillian Flynn as a major talent on the literary thriller scene. It was no surprise…

For all the variety in summer blockbusters, the category has a few attributes that seem pretty much mandatory…

In the way music fans would describe themselves as Beatles people or Elvis people, for a time film buffs would…

Brian Garfield’s 1972 book Death Wish was written as a challenge to audiences. The impulse behind its premise is…

When Die Hard was released in 1988, it was a rebuke to the kind of action film Hollywood was churning out to…

Not all great horror stories are “about” something, in the sense that their monster (or monster equivalent)…

Shortly after the election, there was a minor debate in literary circles about which classic dystopian novel better…

When Marvel Studios announced in 2012 that it was making a movie based on the Guardians Of The Galaxy comics, the…

In 1957, Theodor Seuss Geisel was on a bit of a streak. The prolific children’s author known as Dr. Seuss had…

When Roman Polanski’s adaptation of Ira Levin’s Rosemary’s Baby arrived on screens in 1968, it was delivered intact,…

The biggest difference between Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest and its film adaptation is obvious…

Is there a point where a film adaptation, by deviating too much from its source material, ceases to be an adaptation?

Not too many straight horror stories for children are made these days, but it’s one of the most important genres for…