Adaptation Movies

This is a short film created for an English/Language Arts class. It is based on Stephen King's short story "The Last Rung on the Ladder".

Alfie Zimmer, traveling salesman, contemplates suicide as he studies a notebook of collected graffiti in a motel during another business trip. In his...

Victor Neff moves into a new apartment and discovers a strange machine in the basement. Made of scrap metal, wires, and old television sets, it...

Charles Wharton visits Anthony Reynard, the recently widowed husband of his sister Janine. In his unsettling Victorian mansion, Reynard tells Wharton...

Based on the Stephen King short story, a random encounter with a mute hitchhiker leads to tragic consequences

Dr. Rafael invites one of his patients, a man incapable of physical contact with others, to a card game.

Roman Regent of Police Baron Scarpia, loves Floria Tosca, a beautiful opera singer, but she is engaged to artist Maurice Saranof. Inspired by...

Mr. Adams has been captured by members of a South American government. The reason why Adams is being held is unraveled as he is brought into the...

Family comes first in life…AND death. John Vance is dealing with the most difficult situation of his life as he copes with his mother’s...

Larry deals with his sister's disappearance, and discovers what he is, and isn't responsible for, as he searches for her.

Based on a short story by Stephen King, "The Milkman" is a short film directed by Owen Johnson.

A morose traveling salesman finds solace by ‘collecting’ odd phrases he finds on motel walls. He believes they may make an interesting...

Unofficial Russian Dollar Baby adaptation of Stephen King's 'One for the Road'.

SURVIVOR TYPE is the story of Richard Pine, a man who wakes up alone on a small, deserted island in the middle of the Pacific with no food, few...

The evening's great mistake was pulling into this one. Based on the story of the same name by Stephen King.

An Imperial Message is a 1975 Hungarian experimental film directed by László Najmányi. The 'story' was based on Franz Kafka's...

In a not-too-distant dystopian future, the biggest entertainment event of the year in America is The Long Walk. A striking, bloody animated short...

A man named Fletcher is held captive in a South American stronghold. His captors will use any tortuous means necessary to extract the information...

Two men help a desperate and stranded traveler rescue his wife and daughter from the evil that resides in ‘Salem’s Lot.

Jane Dykstra, a mystery Novelist on a 4 hour drive home, stops at rest area to take a break. She hears a woman being abused in the bathroom, and...