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Carrie (1976)

Director Brian DePalma brings Stephen King’s novel to the screen with this classic horror film. Sissy Spacek stars as Carrie, a shy and introverted high school girl who is relentlessly tormented by her classmates. But when she learns she has telekinetic powers, Carrie unleashes them in a bloody campaign of vengeance. With Nancy Allen, John Travolta, Amy Irving, P.J. Soles, William Katt, and Piper Laurie. 98 min. C/Rtg: R

The Shining (1980)

From writer Stephen King and director Stanley Kubrick comes a classic tale of madness and terror that has climbed the list of greatest horror films since its initial release. Struggling writer Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson), his wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall), and their psychic son Danny (Danny Lloyd) spend the winter overseeing the deserted and isolated Overlook hotel, where the ghosts of the site’s shocking and bloody past plague Jack’s sanity. With Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson. 142 min. C/Rtg: R

Misery (1990)

Nail-biting thriller from Stephen King’s best-selling novel, as successful author Paul Sheldon (James Caan) is rescued after driving his car off an icy embankment by his "number-one fan," Annie Wilkes (Oscar-winner Kathy Bates). While the rest of the world wonders about Paul’s whereabouts, he’s recuperating in the remote cabin of whacked-out nurse Annie, where she takes hero worship to new dimensions. Richard Farnsworth, Lauren Bacall also star; directed by Rob Reiner. 108 min. C/Rtg: R

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Director Frank Darabont’s powerful adaptation of a novella by Stephen King stars Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne, a Portland, Maine, banker wrongly convicted of killing his wife and her lover in 1947. Sentenced to two life sentences in New England’s brutal Shawshank Prison, Dufresne learns to maintain hope in the most hopeless of circumstances with the help of fellow lifer "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman)...and a little rock hammer. Co-stars James Whitmore, William Sadler, Bob Gunton. 142 min. C/Rtg: R

The Green Mile (1999)

This superlative adaptation of Stephen King’s magical realism novel by "The Shawshank Redemption" scripter/director Frank Darabont boasts Tom Hanks as Paul Edgecomb, the head guard in a Louisiana prison’s death row in the 1930s who discovers that kindly--and giant--convicted murderer John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan) possesses supernatural healing and empathetic powers. David Morse, James Cromwell, Bonnie Hunt, Doug Hutchison, and Michael Jeter co-star. 188 min. C/Rtg: R

It (2017)

Every 27 years, the otherwise nondescript town of Derry, Maine, finds itself stalked by a monstrous, sewer-lurking circus clown who lures trusting children to unholy demises. With the local adults powerless to act, one local 13-year-old (Jaeden Lieberher)--who lost his kid brother to the creature--bands his misfit friends together for a pursuit that confronts them with their greatest fears. Blockbuster big-screen take on the Stephen King classic co-stars Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, and Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise. 135 min. C/Rtg: R

It Chapter Two (2019)

Another 27 years have passed, the demonic clown Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård) has returned to stalk the children of Derry, Maine...and the now-middle-aged members of the Losers’ Club make a reluctant homecoming, determined to finally consign him to the hell he came from. Their nemesis, however, now has most of their lifetimes’ insecurities to prey upon--and the last laugh may belong to him. Concluding half of the Stephen King shock saga co-stars Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader. 169 min. C/Rtg: R

Doctor Sleep (2019)

Director Mike Flanagan’s fright-packed filming of Stephen King’s novel--the long-awaited follow-up to "The Shining"--also serves as a sequel to Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror fave. Ewan McGregor stars as a grown-up Danny Torrance, who must stop an immortality-obsessed cult from killing Abra Stone (Kyliegh Curran), a teenage girl who possesses the same psychic powers that he does. With Rebecca Ferguson, Carl Lumbly, Zahn McClarnon. 152 min. C/Rtg: R

Widescreen; Soundtrack: English. Region Free