Most everybody has seen the biggest and best Stephen King adaptations. At the very least, we are all familiar with the likes of The Shining, It, The Mist, The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, and numerous others. One of the most popular writers of all time has unsurprisingly inspired some of the greatest genre films of all time. That said, there are some fantastic King adaptations that have slipped through the cracks over the years, missing most fans altogether. One such film was released in 1993 and, despite being directed by horror icon George A. Romero, remains criminally under-seen and underrated.
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That movie is The Dark Half, Romero’s adaptation of the King novel from 1989. The story is not just one of King’s darkest, but it’s also one of his most personal. The Dark Half revolves around an author who uses a fictional pen name for a large part of his career, and then decides to metaphorically “bury” that persona in order to move forward with his own name on his books. That entity somehow becomes real after the burial, rising from the grave and going on a killing spree.
Of course, this is directly inspired by King’s own career. He wrote under the name Richard Bachman for nearly two decades, and The Dark Half was inspired by his outing as the man behind the name.
The Dark Half was released back in 1993 and only made around $10 million at the box office, failing to even recoup its production costs. But it has slowly made more fans over time, and that will likely continue with its newest development in the world of streaming. Romero’s adaptation of The Dark Half is now available to watch for free on Tubi, giving every fan of King’s the opportunity to check it out at no cost.
Timothy Hutton pulls double duty in The Dark Half as Thad Beaumont and the evil writing entity he created, George Stark. The cast also includes Amy Madigan, Michael Rooker, and Royal Dano.
While on Tubi, fans of King’s will also want to check out the film Maximum Overdrive, which marks the author’s first and only time directing a movie.
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Brickleberry
Girlfriends
Hap & Leonard
How to Get Away With Murder
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Kold & Windy (S1)
Major Dad
Millennials
Sanford and Son
The Jeffersons (S1 & S11)
WOW: Women of Wrestling (S2-S3)
12 Rounds
2 Guns
8 Mile
A Most Violent Year
A Time to Kill
Alice, Darling
Amadeus (Theatrical Cut)
American Honey
Anger Management (2003)
Arrival
Arthur and the Invisibles
Baby’s Day Out
Barbershop
Barbershop 2: Back in Business
Baywatch (2017)
Beauty Shop
Because of Winn-Dixie
Belly
Belly 2: Millionaire Boyz Club
Blair Witch (2016)
Bones and All
Bringing Down the House
Broken City
Cadillac Records
Clemency
Colombiana
Cuban Fury
Culture of Winning
Death Wish (2018)
Déjà Vu
Destroyer
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Don’t Tell a Soul
Dumb and Dumber
Escape Plan
Escape Plan 2: Hades
Escape Plan: The Extractors
Final Destination
Final Destination 2
Final Destination 3
Final Destination 5
Finding Felt
First Blood
Flashdance
Forrest Gump
Fried Green Tomatoes
Get Off My Lawn
Get On Up
Good Burger
Goon: The Last of the Enforcers
Hitman
Hitman: Agent 47
Hot Summer Nights
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
I, Robot
Jinn
Juice
Jumanji (1995)
Jumping the Broom
Jungle 2 Jungle
Jurassic World
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
Legends of the Fall
Major Dad
Minamata
Minority Report
Miss Congeniality
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
No Strings Attached
Non-Stop
Obsessed (2009)
Outlaws
Pale Rider
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension
Pet Sematary (2019)
Phenomenon
Planet 51
Pootie Tang
Pride and Glory
Pulp Fiction
Quarantine 2: Terminal
Rango
Redemption
Richie Rich
Riddick
Robocop (1987)
Robocop (2014)
Robocop 2
Robocop 3
Rye Lane
Scooby-Doo
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Son of a Gun
Southside With You
Spotlight
Sweet Dreams
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
That Awkward Moment
The A-Team (2010)
The Benchwarmers
The Birdcage
The Cable Guy
The Captive
The Core
The Da Vinci Code
The Fate of the Furious
The Final Play
The Grey
The Hills Have Eyes
The Invisible Raptor
The Longest Yard
The Menu
The Nun (2018)
The Outsiders
The Running Man
The Secret Life of Pets 2
The Sorcerer and the White Snake
Thelma & Louise
Titanic
Top Five
Under the Silver Lake
Universal Soldier
War of the Worlds
When You Finish Saving the World
While We’re Young
Wrecked
Zola
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