Lilja’s Library whether he feels any excitement about the constant production line bringing his bibliography from page to screen, King ended up singling Needful Things out for some criticism.

“Some of them were disappointments, you know, Needful Things, for instance,” he offered. “But some of them are really fun to watch, and I’m easy to please.” That speaks volumes about what he thought of the 1993 movie if he made a point of naming it specifically as a disappointing adaptation before immediately admitting that it doesn’t take much to win him over.

The book begins with an ominous intonation of, “You’ve been here before,” which King branded as “the best first line I ever wrote”. Unfortunately, his enthusiasm for seeing his greatest opener brought to life by a roster of talented actors would have dissipated when he discovered that Needful Things in its celluloid form was little more than 120 minutes of cinematic sludge.

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