Stephen King movies and TV shows have been surging into cinemas and onto streaming platforms by the dozen over the last two decades and have been among some of his most successful adaptations ever. This has included this year’s The Life of Chuck, a two-part adaptation of It (which gets a prequel TV series this month on HBO Max), and The Monkey. However, in the 80s it seemed that it was a real struggle to make a decent Stephen King movie – even for the man himself, who directed the disastrous Maximum Overdrive. However, even the worst movies find love on streaming, and the project that King himself has acknowledged is a terrible movie has found success on free streaming.