King on Screen

King on Screen (2023) — watch online on iFILM this Belgian-French documentary built around a single staggering fact: more than 50 directors have adapted Stephen King's books into more than 80 films and series, starting with Brian De Palma's Carrie in 1976. No living author has been adapted more.

Director Daphné Baiwir assembles the filmmakers from the inside: Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile), Mike Flanagan (Doctor Sleep, Gerald's Game), Mick Garris, Lewis Teague, Mikael Håfström and others, with King himself on camera. What they share is not reverence but craft knowledge — how do you take prose that lives entirely in the reader's head and make it do the same thing on screen?

Most horror documentaries settle for genre history or fan celebration. This one is narrower and more useful: a set of specific, practical answers to a question most King fans never think to ask. Stream King on Screen (2023) online on iFILM.