Singleton, written by john esposito, starring david andrews, stephen macht, kelly wolf, and brad dourif, and based on the short story of the same name by stephen king which was. The book was released by doubleday in february of 1978. Kennedy international airport when he runs into jimmy mccann, his old college roommate and ad agency coworker. When an abandoned textile mill is reopened, several employees meet mysterious deaths. In 1980, night shift received the balrog award for best collection, and in 1979 it was nominated as best collection for the locus award and the world fantasy award. The sadistic mill foreman stephen macht has chosen a. Stephen king has brought together nineteen of his most unsettling short piecesbizarre tales of dark doing and unthinkable acts from the twilight regions where horror and madness take on eerie, unearthly forms. Night shift is the first book of short stories of stephen king. But seen through the lens of stephen king movies, its an interesting interpretation. A nebbish of a morgue attendant gets shunted back to the night shift where he is shackled with an obnoxious neophyte partner who dreams of the one great idea for success. Best night shift quotes selected by thousands of our users. Maximum overdrive is famous, or perhaps infamous, for being the only film that stephen king. The giant monstrous bat living in the decrepit and condemned building hunted down and ate various humans throughout the early 90s film graveyard shift. Stephen kings graveyard shift is curiously one of my favourite adaptations of his work.
Night shift is the first collection of short stories by stephen king, first published in 1978. From horror master stephen king comes his most terrorfilled tale yet. A smoker wants to quit smoking, and goes to a company called quitters inc, which cures smoking through threats of violence. Its a real shame more people dont know about it, much less list it among their favorite. Stephen king on the outsider and where he gets his story. Stephen king s collection of short stories night shift contains this gruesome little entry. Chuck starts his first night shift and has to train a new partner. Singleton, written by john esposito, starring david andrews, stephen macht, kelly wolf, and brad dourif, and based on the short story of the same name by stephen king which was first published in the 1970 issue of cavalier magazine, and later collected in kings 1978 collection night shift. Executive produced by showrunner greg nicotero the walking dead, creepshow is based on the iconic 1982 movie written by stephen king and directed by george a. A definitive ranking of every stephen king short story. This is a cheesy knock off of the children of the corn. Admittedly, they read better you can find them both in the night shift collection because a lot has to do with what the characters are thinking, which you cant really do on screen. In 1980, night shift received the balrog award for best collection, and in. Bland david andrews is a quiet hunk drifter who starts the late shift at a grimy maine textile mill, headed over by a sadistic sleazeball boss stephen macht.
Night shift was stephen kings first short story collection, released way back in 1978 and it contains quite a lot of his more popular short stories that ended up becoming movies. Stephen king has over 50 feature films based on his writings. Stephen king i have seen a list of 36 titles created 24 sep 2018 stephen king a list of 47 titles. This one has many good stories in it some of my favorites. Download stephen king four complete novels carrie salems lot the shining night shift ebook online. Night shift is by far king s finest short story collection and closest to pure horror rather than the scifi influenced selection of skeleton crew or the ray bradbury flavours of nightmares and dreamscapes. But beyond the feature films are hundreds of studentmade short films based on king s short stories, completely authorized by the author.
The 10 best movies based on stephen king books according. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. While no story collection is flawless not even one of stephen king s, its more unified in tone, and contains more heavy hitters, than any other horror collection i can name, and it handles both the gothic pulp and gore a steadier hand than night shift skeleton crew hails from a bit later in king s career1985. Based on king s short story, the film is set a moldering old textile mill, where john hall david andrews is hired to clean the place out. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading night shift. Graveyard shift is a 1990 american horror film directed by ralph s. Night surf is a postapocalyptic short story by stephen king, first published in the spring 1969 issue of ubris magazine, and later collected in a heavily revised version in king s 1978 collection night shift. This is not king s first time using hordes of rats in a story. These two movies complete my collection of every available stephen king movie. This week, he tackles night shift, king s first compilation of. Romero and features twelve chilling tales told over six, hourlong episodes.
The glorious b movie graveyard shift is easily one of the most fun stephen king films ever made. Stephen kings 10 most underrated movies screenrant. I started in tv movies and then had success in my move to features with night shift and splash. Just wondering what peoples favourite movie from night shift stories were saying as most of them got made into movies. Here we have some of his best stories including strawberry spring, the ledge, graveyard shift and i know what you need. Children of the corn movie cats eye movie graveyard shift movie the mangler movie maximum overdrive movie. Bill is an irrepressible character who talks constantly and thinks of himself as an idea man. Based loosely on stephen king s short story quitters, inc. So starts stephen king s first collection of short stories, night shift. Richard dick morrison, a middleaged smoker, is at john f. Battleground is a fantasy short story by american writer stephen king, first published in the september 1972 issue of cavalier magazine, and later collected in kings 1978 collection night shift. The woman in the room, the boogeyman, and disciples of the crow. His life takes a bizarre turn when a prostitute neighbour complains about the loss of her pimp.
This list will take you through all of stephen king s short story collections, from the 1978 night shift to his most recent 2015 collection, the bazaar of bad dreams. From telekinetic teenagers to monstrous creatures, king has written about nearly every fear and phobia known to humanity. The boogeyman is a short story by stephen king, first published in the march 1973 issue of the magazine cavalier, and later collected in king s 1978 collection night shift contents 1 plot summary. For those two reasons, i would put skeleton crew above night shift. The short story trucks published in 1978 and featured in the collection night shift. Casting was okay but the acting was was overdone and the movie was very boring. Mccann, who had been a heavy smoker in college, credits a firm. Night shift received the balrog award for best collection, and in 1979 it was nominated as best collection for the locus award and the world fantasy award. Graveyard shift is adapted from stephen kings short story of the same. Real rats are all over the place too, to clean up the bodies.
The first two parts quitters incorporated and the ledge are well done adaptations of two short stories that are amongst stephen king s best writing. The novella graveyard shift, included in 1978 short story collection night shift and adapted to a movie in 1990, was based around a textile worker on the titular graveyard shift, having to deal with hordes of rats. Three of the stories from night shift were made into the movie cats eye but the stories are far superior and all. Many of kings most famous short stories were included in this collection. Stephen kings graveyard shift 1990 rotten tomatoes. Children of the corn you have probably heard of that in film form, is a great story. Excursions into horror is the fifth book published by stephen king, and his first collection of short stories. Stephen king uberfan james smythe is rereading the works of the horror genius in chronological order. This is a bad movie even if i was basing it solely on 80s standards. Dear bones, how good it was to step into the cold, draughty hall here at chapelwaite, every bone in an ache from that abominable coach, in need of instant relief from my distended bladderand to see a letter addressed in your own inimitable scrawl propped on the obscene little cherrywood table beside the door.
He is continually making notes to himself on his portable tape recorder, though most of his ideas are silly or impractical. I say curiously because its not a very tasteful film, let alone even a good. The prime examples being children of the corn and sometimes they come back. The former big little lies and divergent star shares her view on acting with. A textile mill is shut down due to an infestation of rats, which must be cleared out before business can. So if you want a taste of king s horror but dont have time to sit down and read a whole novel, weve got you covered.
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