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Maximum Overdrive

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Year:1986
Director:Stephen King
Written by:Stephen King (Original Story), Stephen King (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of homicidal 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the killer machines ... or be killed by them.
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Graveyard Shift

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Year:1990
Director:Ralph S. Singleton
Written by:Stephen King (Writer), John Esposito (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:John Hall is a drifter who wanders into a small town in Maine. He needs a job and decides to seek employment at the community's top business: a large textile mill. He is hired to work the "graveyard shift" -- from around midnight to dawn -- and, along with a few others, he is charged with cleaning out the basement. This task strikes the workers as simple enough, but then, as they proceed deeper underground, they encounter an unspeakable monstrosity intent on devouring them all.
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Firestarter

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Year:1984
Director:Mark L. Lester
Written by:Stephen King (Novel), Stanley Mann (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:As youths, Andy McGee and his future wife, Vicky, participated in secret experiments, allowing themselves to be subjected to mysterious medical tests. Years later, the couple's daughter, Charlie, begins to exhibit the ability of setting fires solely with her mind. This volatile talent makes the youngster extremely dangerous and soon she becomes a target for the enigmatic agency known as "The Shop."
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Dreamcatcher

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Year:2003
Director:Lawrence Kasdan
Written by:Stephen King (Novel), William Goldman (Screenplay), Lawrence Kasdan (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Four boyhood pals perform a heroic act and are changed by the powers they gain in return. Years later, on a hunting trip in the Maine woods, they're overtaken by a vicious blizzard that harbors an ominous presence. Challenged to stop an alien force, the friends must first prevent the slaughter of innocent civilians by a military vigilante ... and then overcome a threat to the bond that unites the four of them.
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Dolores Claiborne

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Year:1995
Director:Taylor Hackford
Written by:Stephen King (Novel), Tony Gilroy (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a witness who can place her at the scene of the crime. Things look bad for Dolores when her daughter Selena, a successful Manhattan magazine writer, returns to cover the story.
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Creepshow

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Year:1982
Director:George A. Romero
Written by:Stephen King (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Inspired by the E.C. comics of the 1950s, George A. Romero and Stephen King bring five tales of terror to the screen.
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Cujo

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Year:1983
Director:Lewis Teague
Written by:Stephen King (Novel), Don Carlos Dunaway (Screenplay), Lauren Currier (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.
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Christine

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Year:1983
Director:John Carpenter
Written by:Stephen King (Novel), Bill Phillips (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Geeky student Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes obsessed with restoring the classic automobile to her former glory. As the car changes, so does Arnie, whose newfound confidence turns to arrogance behind the wheel of his exotic beauty. Arnie's girlfriend Leigh and best friend Dennis reach out to him, only to be met by a Fury like no other.
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Children of the Corn

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Year:1984
Director:Fritz Kiersch
Written by:Stephen King (Novel), George Goldsmith (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town.
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  • Children of the Corn ( 10823 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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Cat’s Eye

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Year:1985
Director:Lewis Teague
Written by:Stephen King (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Three short stories by shock-meister Stephen King are linked by a stray cat that roams from one tale to the next in this creepy triptych that begins as Dick (James Woods) tries to quit smoking by any means necessary. Next, we meet Johnny, an adulterous man who's forced by his lover's husband onto a building's hazardous ledge. Finally, Amanda is threatened by an evil gnome who throws suspicion on the family cat.
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