Stephen King

Five grisly tales from a 1950s-style comic, including a murdered father rising from beyond, a bizarre meteor, a vengeful husband, a mysterious crate's occupant, and a plague of cockroaches.

Dir. George A. Romero · With Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, Fritz Weaver

In the town of Normal Valley, an eccentric magician named Maestro entertains the local children every day in his spooky mansion. One stormy night, the town's mayor leads a group of angry citizens to the mansion in an attempt to run Maestro out of town.

Dir. Stan Winston · With Michael Jackson, Pat Dade, Amy Smallman

After the Creed family's cat is accidentally killed, a friendly neighbor advises its burial in a mysterious nearby cemetery.

Dir. Mary Lambert · With Dale Midkiff, Fred Gwynne, Denise Crosby

Three short stories linked by a stray cat that roams from one tale to the next, in this creepy triptych that begins as Dick tries to quit smoking by any means necessary. Next, we meet Johnny, an adulterous man who's forced by his lover's husband onto a building's hazardous ledge. Finally, Amanda is threatened by an evil gnome who throws suspicion on the family cat.

Dir. Lewis Teague · With Drew Barrymore, James Woods, Alan King

The small city of Tarker's Mills is startled by a series of sadistic murders. The population fears the work of a maniac, but sightings of a mysterious, hairy creature soon spread. People lock themselves up at night, but there's one boy who's still outside…

Dir. Dan Attias · With Gary Busey, Everett McGill, Tovah Feldshuh

An acclaimed writer, his ex-wife, and their teenaged children come to terms with the complexities of love in all its forms over the course of one tumultuous year.

Dir. Josh Boone · With Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Connelly, Lily Collins

Three macabre tales from the latest issue of a boy's favorite comic book, dealing with a vengeful wooden Native American, a monstrous blob in a lake, and an undying hitchhiker.

Dir. Michael Gornick · With Lois Chiles, George Kennedy, Dorothy Lamour

Charles Brady and his mother, Mary, are the last of a dying breed whose needs are not of this world. They are Sleepwalkers - able to stay alive only by feeding on the life-force of the innocent, but destined to roam the earth, avoiding discovery while searching for their next victim. That search takes them to the sleepy little town of Travis, Indiana, where beautiful teenager Tanya Robertson is about to become an unwilling pawn in their nightmarish fight for survival.

Dir. Mick Garris · With Brian Krause, Mädchen Amick, Alice Krige

When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of murderous 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the killer machines…Or be killed by them.

Dir. Stephen King · With Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington

In 1960, seven outcast kids known as "The Losers' Club" fight against an ancient shape-shifting alien who poses as a child-killing clown, while also dealing with bullies and abusive parents. Thirty years later, they reunite to stop the creature once and for all when it returns to their hometown.

Dir. Stephen King · With Tim Curry, Harry Anderson, Dennis Christopher

Kingdom is a hospital whose bizarre population includes a brilliant surgeon who lives in the basement, a nearly blind security guard and a nurse who regularly faints at the sight of blood. But when patients and staff hear the voice of a girl crying through the halls and a patient destined for life as a paraplegic miraculously recovers, they are dismissive of any suggestion of mysticism or unseen powers... at their own peril.

Dir. Lars von Trier, Stephen King · With Allison Hossack, Bruce Davison, Janet Wright

Dr. Joyce Reardon, a psychology professor, commissions a team of psychics and a gifted autistic girl to find out the truth about an old, supposedly haunted mansion called Rose Red.

Dir. Stephen King · With Nancy Travis, Matt Keeslar, Kimberly J. Brown

An anthology based on eight short stories by Stephen King in his 1993 collection of the same name.

Dir. Stephen King

When a blizzard hits an isolated island town it brings with it a mysterious stranger intent on terrorizing the people for a sinister purpose.

Dir. Stephen King · With Tim Daly, Colm Feore, Debrah Farentino

After 25 years of a good marriage, what will Darcy do once she discovers her husband's sinister secret?

Dir. Peter Askin · With Joan Allen, Anthony LaPaglia, Stephen Lang

After a deadly plague kills most of the world’s population, the remaining survivors split into two groups - one led by a benevolent elder and the other by a maleficent being - to face each other in a final battle between good and evil.

Dir. Stephen King · With Gary Sinise, Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald

This terrifying thriller follows widow Lisey Landon as a series of disturbing events revives memories of her marriage to author Scott Landon and the darkness that plagued him.

Dir. Stephen King · With Julianne Moore, Clive Owen, Jennifer Jason Leigh

A traveling couple end up in an abandoned Nebraska town inhabited by a cult of murderous children who worship a demon that lives in the local cornfields.

Dir. Donald P. Borchers · With David Anders, Kandyse McClure, Daniel Newman

When a strange signal pulsates through all cell phone networks worldwide, it starts a murderous epidemic of epic proportions when users become bloodthirsty creatures, and a group of people in New England are among the survivors to deal with the ensuing chaos after.

Dir. Tod Williams · With John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Isabelle Fuhrman

Bestselling novelist Mike Noonan, unable to cope after his wife's sudden death, returns to the couple's lakeside retreat in Maine, where he becomes involved in a custody battle between a young widow and her child's enormously wealthy grandfather. Mike inexplicably receives mysterious ghostly visitations, escalating nightmares and the realization that his late wife still has something to tell him.

Dir. Stephen King · With Pierce Brosnan, Melissa George, Annabeth Gish

A jet leaves on a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to Boston. But early in the flight, ten passengers awaken to a startling realization: All of the other passengers have vanished.

Dir. Stephen King · With Patricia Wettig, Dean Stockwell, Kate Maberly

A buried UFO slowly turns local inhabitants into gizmo-building alien mutants.

Dir. Stephen King · With Jimmy Smits, Marg Helgenberger, E.G. Marshall